Billericay School – SpeakUp!

by Emily, Sharna, Jody, Sophie and Mia Reading and Chelmsford were competing to be a city along with the other 24 contestants. Whilst having Reading as a favourite which lead people to believe that they were going to be successful to become the first City. Unfortunately Reading lost on the 14th March 2012 leaving Chelmsford [...]

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 Good, The Bad and The Ugly Reviews   I really don’t say this very often but after having ran, jumped, lifted, heaved, screamed, cried, hid in corners, turned wheels, ran a little more, collected magical orbs, screamed some more and then ran a little more of my way through it, I have come to [...]

World Challenge: A set of rules I know it may be hard to believe, but somehow, I made it onto world challenge. If you fit the age group, you will be told about it. If you are part of the cross section that don’t fit one of the year groups that can go, and are [...]

Give An Hour – BBC School Report by Brad & Co from BillericaySchool on Vimeo. Give An Hour – BBC School Report by Matthew & Co from BillericaySchool on Vimeo. Who would you give an hour to?

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 [...]

Present Staff Mr Stokes, Dr Saich, Mr Sims.   House Captains Lewis Langenberg,  Susan Hewitt   Student Voice Nafiza Uddin            Kirsty Barrett           Alex Swan     Amy Ross     Alex Becalick            Peter Vaughan            Courtney Sinclair Miller    Jack Hooker At the student voice meeting we have come up with 5 main issues.  1)    Toilets The first is the toilets, [...]

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 Amy   On the 31st of October 2011 a group of 6 year 11 students visited 3 Mills Studio in London to interview the head of the Olympic ceremonies, Mr. Martin Green. They all have said to have had a very enjoyable day and said the experience was amazing! And they even got to [...]