Billericay School – SpeakUp!

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Reviews I feel awfully divided about this, almost like a beaten housewife who deep down still adores her thug of a husband. I feel like I should be commending this for bringing back some of the tropes and traditions that made the old days so great and memorable [...]

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly reviews There’s often a lot of good-natured (well, not really but I try to be optimistic about this pit of angst) debate about whether video games can be classed as a form of art. On the defensive side one can say that yes they are; they allow people [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

That question has always been the one I didn’t want to answer, what do you want to be when you grow up? When I was four, the answer was a bus driver. I wanted to drive my mum to work and back so she didn’t have to deal with the bus journeys. Then, when we [...]

How to hate yourself no more If any of you who are or are not reading this remember, a while ago, I wrote a post here called “how to hate yourself”. This caused a few questions to be raised, and actually some laughter. That’s all very well when you do hate yourself, but it’s just [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Last year we saw thousands of active young people take the streets to get their voices heard over the rise in tuition fees and the cut of EMA. But the destruction we saw on TV and in the newspapers was nothing we hadn’t seen in the past from protests. What was new was how twitter, [...]