Billericay School – SpeakUp!

In films job interviews go either one of two ways. Either there’s a montage where the person has overcome some sort of event and now powers through. This wins the interviewers over and there it is, they’re smiling nodding at each other with silent words and its done. The job interview is over and the [...]

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Reviews I feel awfully divided about this, almost like a beaten housewife who deep down still adores her thug of a husband. I feel like I should be commending this for bringing back some of the tropes and traditions that made the old days so great and memorable [...]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly reviews There’s often a lot of good-natured (well, not really but I try to be optimistic about this pit of angst) debate about whether video games can be classed as a form of art. On the defensive side one can say that yes they are; they allow people [...]

I’m going to be honest with you readers; this blog has been probably the hardest I’ve begun to write since I began to write these for ‘Speak-Up’. It’s a new year and to be honest not much has been happening. I’m currently waiting on a situation at work that’s hopefully going to appear in March [...]

Really not the editor’s letter   In the lessons that I am now able to use to write these articles for whoever actually reads these ramblings the site manager often asks the editor to write an updated version of the editor’s letter. Let it be known that it is a rare day that I finish [...]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! If I had to put my finger on one thing I truly hated. I mean something I hated more than anything else in the world. More than corruption, than torture, than crime. It would be those people who ask for your solutions to a problem after you rant. The people who ask what your [...]

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 By Chloe, Ellie, Sofia and Rebecca   Thursday 15th March 2012 was BBC Report Day for the Year 7’s at the Billericay School in Billericay, Essex. The day comprised of Year 7 students researching interesting news stories, and later combining all their ideas and information into radio reports, newspaper articles or television clips, using a [...]