Billericay School – SpeakUp!

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 [...]

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 [...]

On the 13th of March the English Prime minister, David Cameron flew over to the United States of America to have a meeting with the President of the USA, Barrack Obama. David Cameron flew over and he landed on American soil on the 12th of March 2012 .He flew over mainly to discuss how to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]