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 [...]

Group 1 Mp3

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 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 [...]

  Martin studied for a degree in theatre at Exeter University for he had always had an eye for modem visual art and staging many other art forms. Once Martin had finished his degree he then went on to get a job in a fashion cafe in London. After working for a long period 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 [...]

By Hannah year 10 Last week the Billericay School ran a workshop, aiming to share and interpret peoples past experiences through photographs and “pin” them to a website called Historypin. www.historypin.com With Historypin you can scan the photos onto the site, and pin them to the place where it was taken. It’s an amazing site [...]