Billericay School – SpeakUp!

Having difficulty deciding what to be for Halloween, or what to wear? We have come up with 10 frightening ideas to make your skin shiver; * Dead school girl/boy – all you need is an old school uniform! * Zombie – toilet paper is fine. * Clown – red nose? * Skeleton – local shops [...]

by Jed Bullman and James Ainsbury The popular UK TV show Gavin and Stacey, written by James Corden and Ruth Jones is set to be remade in the USA by Fox studios for our American counterparts.  The original show was set in both Essex and Wales and told the difficulties of a long distance relationship [...]

It was a week I could not have made up and I’ll always remember it. I had booked the week off work, saved as much money as I could and I had never been as excited as I was since I was about 15 years old. I had thought I had lost my excitement, I [...]

It was my birthday this month. The first birthday since I’ve realized what a birthday was that I wasn’t excited for. I’d asked for the present I wanted from my parents weeks before so knew about that and my friend was planning a Jubilee slash birthday party for me but my excitement fell kind of [...]

Its weird the things people get excited about. Some get excited about a new album from their favorite band, some get excited about a new summer blockbusters, others get excited about less normal things. Like me. While others were beginning their summer revision for their end of term exams, my mum and dad decided to [...]

Note: This post has been written as a contribution to the national debate on the purpose of education. http://purposed.org.uk/2012/04/500words-take-2/ The purpose of formal education is a filter: Most of the posts I’ve read so far have come from education professionals such as teachers, academics and other thinkers. These are people who answer this question in [...]

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 [...]