Billericay School – SpeakUp!

Schools and police are warning parents about how Facebook can affect their property. Increasing rates of house parties advertised on Facebook has resulted in houses getting seriously damaged by hundreds of teenagers. Police are asking that parents do not leave unreliable sons or daughters at home on a Friday or Saturday night; police are also [...]

2013 is here and so is Twitters 7th birthday and has reached 200million members and yet still counting. It has been rated one of the world’s most popular social networking sites in the universe and almost all well known celebrities use Twitter to talk to their friends, family and followers. Twitter is very helpful to [...]

By Billericay School Reporter On Thursday 21st March 2013 Twitter celebrated its seventh birthday. Twitter has 200 million users worldwide. Who now send around about 400 million tweets a day. Not everybody likes Twitter as you can’t see the safety on it. We interviewed a few people to find out what they think of twitter [...]

By Billericay School reporter The social network is not what you think; you may have had abusive tweets from your friends. Are they what you think they are?   TWITTER 40% of people do not tweet however they do look at what other people tweet. Some people just follow others to see what they get [...]

by Lucy Franks The free and independent road was once a privileged form of transport, but it seems to have become a free ride to harm. No matter who you are or what you have achieved, once you’ve stepped into the fierce circulation, you could be just another victim. Nobody would know this more than Tour [...]

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 [...]