Billericay School – SpeakUp!

a href=”http://billericayschool.net/speakup/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/journalist.jpg”> By Dean, Max and Jack BBC Essex journalist Thomas magi(29)told us all about his life as a journalist for the BBC, Thomas told us that he does radio in the morning from 6-9am, Thomas finds every story he can then try’s to get close evidence so he wouldn’t say the wrong thing on [...]

By Max, Daniel, Jack, Frankie and Myles Thomas Magill from BBC Essex has been working in his current job for 2 years. in that time he has made some mistakes, but always fixed them like a professional. One of his many colleges asked tom if he had interviewed any celebrities he replied I’ve interviewed the [...]

By Emily, Chalyce, Maddii and Natasha Kids from school have been travelling home to Belgium, after a skiing holiday in Swiss Alps. The tragic accident on the 13 March caused 28 people to die, 26 were young children aged around 12 and 13 years old. There were only 2 adults that died, which were the [...]

7 year old Rean has demanded his hair to be cut as lots of times he has been mistaken for a girl! Rean’s classmates have sponsored his haircut and he has raised £82.00. He decided to donate the money to the Children’s Unit and Sunderland Royal Hospital which cared for him when he was ill [...]

TRAGEDY HAPPENDS IN SWISS AND SHOCKS THE WORLD Yesterday, in the early hours of the morning, a large school bus was on the way home from south Switzerland, returning from a ski trip and the bus was involved in a crash where it hit a brick wall, smashing up the whole front half of the [...]

By Charlotte, Jordan, Amy, Lucy and Kasey Thursday 5th march 2012, found a crocodile in sea salt water, with the strongest bite and sharpest teeth. Scientist believe that sea water helps. Crocodiles need sharp and strong teeth, to help them survive in sea water. They need sharp and strong teeth, so they can eat lots [...]

Heavy fog which is making everyone late for school and for work, is causing havoc to the cars on the roads and making it much more dangerous for pedestrians who are walking or cycling along the main roads of Essex. This includes Basildon and Billericay. Heavy fog in Billericay caused slow drivers going to work [...]

Building work In 1917 the Billericay school had a farm. They used it to teach science, but the government changed the rules so they couldn’t teach it anymore. They tried to sell the farm but at the time no one could build on the land. It would have sold for 12million but only sold for [...]

Building work on the Billericay school. The School is building an extension to their School. The extension cost 2.75 million and the overall cost for moving the School blocks pulsed to the extension is a staggering 5.5 million. Not all of the money was from the School, they used to have farmland across the road [...]

Crash in belguim In belguim on the 13th of march a coach taking children from 2 different Swiss schools crashed entering tunnel. The story behind is that the driver lost control on the quick sharp turns in the tunnel when driving at 69mph and crashed. 22 children lost their lives and 6 adults including the [...]