Billericay School – SpeakUp!

I had believed I had stopped getting so nervous over a lot of things, my first ever job interview at Marks & Spencer when I was 16, I was terrified but each time I did something more that expanded on my confidence I felt better. Today I felt I was close to shaking until I [...]

It was the most surreal day of my life. Celebrity Juice is currently filmed at Riverside Studios and this is where I found myself on Wednesday 31st August. First on the agenda, a tour. A runner, Josh, took me around the studio where I was told I was to be a stand-in for one of [...]

by Charlotte McKessack Jazmine and I are two seventeen year old students who attend the Billericay School Sixth Form. We are fortunate to have been given the chance to work alongside Skating Panda, an organisation working in social impact communications, for a few days in the hope that we can learn a little bit about [...]

by Alex Working in the news industry is not as glamorous as it may seem. Many people work for long hours, under highly pressurised conditions and the pay in is not great. Producers can be paid as little as £22,000 a year. A large amount of pressure is placed upon reporters, editors and producers throughout [...]

Rihanna. Lady Gaga. Nicole Scherzinger. To name but a few big female singers. Or should that be to name but a few latest sex icons? In today’s society it seems that you can not look anywhere without seeing a half naked woman selling her body to make money for the media or clothing industry and you [...]

Over the past couple of weeks the BBC aired two notable items which made headlines. One of them was a (very good) documentary about assisted suicide. It is understandable that this sparked debate in the press – it is still illegal in the UK to assist a loved one in killing themselves. The other was [...]

Lewis – It’s not boring, it’s cosy!     Everything is fine. People can relax. All the stresses of life are cured. Because Lewis is back on TV. If you want to feel bruised and psychologically assaulted, as if you’ve just been dragged by the ankles around a museum of torture that uses sandpaper for [...]

Superman: one of the greatest superheroes of all time. He is remembered for his super powers, his kind domineer and for his alter ego Clark Kent. But the biggest thing we all know about is his glasses or his “disguise” as he calls it. How can a pair of glasses be a disguise for anyone? [...]

Andy Gray, sexist moron or a funny guy engaging in a bit of ‘blokey’ banter? After taking a small survey of our Speak Up general class it has been proven; women do not know the offside rule. It is fact. Just ask one to attempt a definition and you will witness a fumbling, flailing armed [...]

What did you see? It was the new “How’s the weather?” greeting in the 2010 series of Flashforward, a science fiction television series that rounded up a pretty hefty fan-base before being axed by its production company in June. Based on Robert J Sawyer’s novel of the same name, it followed the fictional lives of [...]