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 [...]

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 [...]

By Anna, Jo, Liv, Paige The Billericay high school is having a new building work it is attached to C-block and it is called C-block extension. The school managed to build a new building by selling the farm they owned which sold for 8 and a half million pound which went towards the school improvement. [...]

Rory Mcilroy has powered through the men’s world rankings for golf so that means he has came 1st in the world championships though he came 1st in the US open this competition was at the Honda classic. When he got this magnificent glory he went to the white house to have dinner with the president [...]

Set the scene, its Christmas 2005. The parents are asleep, the sister is round her boyfriend’s and I aimlessly flick through the channels with the air of someone sick to death of routine. I land on ‘Doctor Who’ and decide to stay. Of course I knew about the show. It had began on the BBC [...]

The cognitive dissonance of a sleep deprived mind   Happy people are boring. There I said it. When you get those people who are just happy generally, they become just far less interesting. I’m sure there are people who disagree, but when you are at least part bored doing almost anything, like rollercoasters, or with [...]

The 18 year trial Some people, who are able to actually watch the news for more than five minutes, may be aware of a certain person who was murdered 18 years ago based on the colour of his skin. I won’t mention his name, because if you don’t know who I’m talking about, then you [...]

Alky I really wanted to do one of these based on the people I see on the way to school each day. There is the dog with the emo fringe that is being walked by a mother and small child with a bigger small child behind who always looks upset. There is the miscellaneous ginger [...]