Billericay School – SpeakUp!

 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 [...]

Type by Jo, Anna, Olivia & Paige A man’s body was found in a south wood ham farers multi million pound cannabis factory on the 15th of March 2012. It was reported that he fell through the skylight when the factory was raided by burglars early on December 10th, but reasons behind the death have [...]

By Millie Ellie and Bethany The Billericay School in Essex, England have been building a new block. SDC (The builders) have been building this block since September last year and are hoping to finish in the middle of June. The 3,000 pupil school have been waiting since 1997 that’s 11 years. Many people question where [...]

why is bread Britain’s most wasted food As of the beginning of 2012 bread has become the food that has filled up the most space in our food waste Lorries in the UK. People are now throwing away 4.4 million tones of food a year and half of that factor is bread. 32% of bread [...]

By Jackson, Billy, Ryan, Jack and Anthony, To participate in the Olympics is no mean feat. You have to be hard working. We asked a few sport players to see how they are feeling about the Olympics. “I’m a fencing player. I started at the age of eight and am now 12. After 4 years [...]

By Jo, Anna, Olivia and Paige Yesterday afternoon, 5 year old Rean went under the scissors and had his hair chopped of for the first time since he was born. He donated his long golden locks to Sunderland hospice to help people with hair loss and medical conditions. Rean also has raised £82 for the [...]

Thieves attempted to steal 3 miniature ponies from a field near the A127. The 3 Shetland ponies were found in a field on St Mary’s Lane, West Horndon this was when the thieves tried to load the poor innocent ponies into the van. The thieves escaped and was roaming for over 24 hours in a [...]

By Chloe, Megan, Anna, Millie and Isabelle. Joseph Kony had become famous this week but for the wrong reasons. Just a week ago no one had ever known about Joseph Kony before. Now million around the world have heard about him and have started a charity named invisible children. Kony is now being hunted for [...]

By Leanne, Megan,Emmi, Alex, Eleanor Simon is building a new block for the Billericay School. This year Simon has decided to build the new block a little different by making the floors, ceilings and walls concrete. He said “ This is to make more space within the block.” Simon also said that because they work [...]

SIXTH FORM! Today at The Billericay School, we interviewed two students about their sporting achievements. One of them was a year 11 girl called Aimee, her sport was figure-skating. She started when she was six and has been doing it for 10 years. We asked her what she finds the hardest when she adds jumps [...]