Billericay School – SpeakUp!

The unstoppable Ward & Walter return to Speak Up with the first of a two-part Christmas Podcast! In this episode we look at some Dickens and a touching autobiography.

Hello, Your favourite Billericay School alumni are back with a new episode of The Ward & Walter Bookclub! This will certainly warm up your cold autumn evenings. On this podcast we are reading Agatha Christie’s novel The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side, and The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst.  

Hello! Ward & Walter are pleased to announce that they will be returning for a new series of the Bookclub very soon with some inspiring reads to warm up your autumn days. Keep a look out on the site for podcasts and book selections!  

  Hello! It’s nearly the end of the summer, and this podcast marks the end of the Ward & Walter Summer Read. But fear not, as Ward & Walter shall return for a new podcast series in the autumn with some great new reads, and a two-part Christmas special! But that’s a while away. For [...]

  Hello. Below you will find our second Podcast, plus details of the books discussed.   The Summer Read, Podcast 2 from BillericaySchool on Vimeo. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling Synopsis: Harry Potter is preparing to leave the Dursleys and Privet Drive for the last time. But the future that awaits [...]

Hello! Just a quick message to say that Ward & Walter will return with two new podcasts very soon, featuring the works of J.K. Rowling, Anne Frank, Lynda La Plante, Gillian Cross and many more! Plus, some more videos including Mr Howells, some lovely English teachers and Mrs Smith.

Now, I am a big fan of Kathy Reichs and her creation, Temperance Brennan. She’s so popular that she inspired the hit TV series Bones, due to the sheer cleverness of plot, accurate detail and witty writing style. With crime novels you can’t really change the basics of the storyline- someone’s murdered, the main character [...]

Hello! The Ward & Walter Summer Read begins in this very hot first week of August with two interesting paperbacks to get your teeth into! On this page you will find our first audio podcast (the video below) plus a small collection of our views about the texts. There will also be summaries of the [...]

When I picked up this book I wasn’t quite sure what genre it was. Possibly romance, since it talks about “love in all its forms”. Or maybe adventure, for it chronicles the happenings of Elly, a young girl born in 1968. Even after reading it, the genre still isn’t crystal clear. A bildungsroman is my [...]

              Ward & Walter were in the school over these past few weeks (you may have seen us!). Below you will find all the videos we made of staff and students talking about what they are excited about reading over the summer.   Mrs Smith Mrs Hammond Mrs Shearer [...]