Billericay School – SpeakUp!

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Reviews   I really don’t say this very often but after having ran, jumped, lifted, heaved, screamed, cried, hid in corners, turned wheels, ran a little more, collected magical orbs, screamed some more and then ran a little more of my way through it, I have come to [...]

World Challenge: A set of rules I know it may be hard to believe, but somehow, I made it onto world challenge. If you fit the age group, you will be told about it. If you are part of the cross section that don’t fit one of the year groups that can go, and are [...]

Apathy and confidence When you are as filled with self loathing as I am, you often hear people tell you to be confident. This is the least useful advice since “If a bird poos on your head, its good luck” despite the fact you still have poo on your head. Let me explain. There is [...]

I had believed I had stopped getting so nervous over a lot of things, my first ever job interview at Marks & Spencer when I was 16, I was terrified but each time I did something more that expanded on my confidence I felt better. Today I felt I was close to shaking until I [...]

Present Staff Mr Stokes, Dr Saich, Mr Sims.   House Captains Lewis Langenberg,  Susan Hewitt   Student Voice Nafiza Uddin            Kirsty Barrett           Alex Swan     Amy Ross     Alex Becalick            Peter Vaughan            Courtney Sinclair Miller    Jack Hooker At the student voice meeting we have come up with 5 main issues.  1)    Toilets The first is the toilets, [...]

It was the most surreal day of my life. Celebrity Juice is currently filmed at Riverside Studios and this is where I found myself on Wednesday 31st August. First on the agenda, a tour. A runner, Josh, took me around the studio where I was told I was to be a stand-in for one of [...]

 By Amy   On the 31st of October 2011 a group of 6 year 11 students visited 3 Mills Studio in London to interview the head of the Olympic ceremonies, Mr. Martin Green. They all have said to have had a very enjoyable day and said the experience was amazing! And they even got to [...]

  Martin studied for a degree in theatre at Exeter University for he had always had an eye for modem visual art and staging many other art forms. Once Martin had finished his degree he then went on to get a job in a fashion cafe in London. After working for a long period of [...]

 By Hannah Tjandra Everyone knows someone musical. It’s very rare in a person, not to be swayed by music at least once in their life. It surrounds us in our happiest times, calms us when we’re angry, empathises with us when we feel down. We hear it everyday, on the daily commute, in the street, [...]

That question has always been the one I didn’t want to answer, what do you want to be when you grow up? When I was four, the answer was a bus driver. I wanted to drive my mum to work and back so she didn’t have to deal with the bus journeys. Then, when we [...]