Billericay School – SpeakUp!

by Maddie, Lauren, Maisie, Samantha, Rhiona Jessie J is set to the judge the new talent show ‘the voice’ on bbc1 starting on 24th of march 2012. Young Essex girl Jessie J  hits are screens on the 24th march 2012 on BBC 1 for 11 weeks presented by holly Willoughby and Reggie yates. Also on [...]

 by Lauren, Maisie, Maddie, Samantha and Rhian At just 23, Jessie J, originally from Essex has achieved so much over the year. Jessie won over 17 awards for her outstanding music, and sold over 10million albums worldwide.   Jessie J struggled at a young age, because she was never as intelligent as her class mates. [...]

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 [...]

Riz Lateef inspires young BBC school reporters. By Lucy -Thursday 14th July 2011 When BBC school reporters from the Billericay school went to interview Riz Lateef at the BBC London Studios, they returned with inspiring advice that she had given them. When we asked her about role models, we were fascinated by what she told [...]

By Sophie On the 12th July 2011 three BBC school reporters had an exclusive tour of the BBC and an interview with BBC London presenter Riz Lateef. “The best school trip ever!” quoted Alex (11) a student who went on the trip. When we arrived we were greeted by Rita and Tamsyn, two BBC workers, [...]

I surveyed A-Level students around my age asking them who their role models are in terms of who they look up to and why. I recorded the results of this and found out that the boys had a diverse outlook on who they look up to compared to who the girls do. I found that [...]

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 [...]

by Bridget Minamore Inspirational Speaker at the IWC. Let’s pretend for a minute I’m a female celebrity. As a woman in our society, I’m expected to be 20 years younger than my male co-host but am still told I dress too slutty when I show cleavage on Saturday night TV. Basically in our society, me [...]

On the 22nd of March 2011, some of the year 7 girls from The Billericay School went to Civic theatre in Chelmsford as part of a scheme designed to inspire and inform young women. The girls arrived at the theatre in Chelmsford by the NIBS bus. They went to get checked in. They had to [...]

On Tuesday 22nd March 2011, there was an inspirational women’s conference at civic theatre in Chelmsford. It was arranged by Mrs Berry (the assistant head at the Billericay school) and 6th form girls because they are doing a project about role models and people that inspire them. They arranged four visitors to come and inspire [...]