Fearnhill Feature Writing and Speeches

Imagine a world where everybody could see what was happening and change the disastrous future.   What if you could learn the obvious fate and change it for the better? Did You know that every second a football field of rain forest is lost - seven of them by time you’ve read this? Well now you do. You could donate, reach your fingers to the keyboard and select the amount, saving trees, animals, and plants ,supporting the villages around them. But you just don’t care. We all must not do so. We all must change and help. Another example of ignoring the inevitable is cutting down trees for Biomass energy, conservable, that can be used again.   What’s the problem? The dirty energy that is needed for this, and the energy that   is needed when the trees are not in full supply. The fauna that evacuates from their homes, having to leave their nests that are doomed to fall from a great height, cracking the eggs with a squelch and the offspring falling down wi...

When I was younger, I was so excited to grow up.  Sleepovers, late night walks, parties, secondary school, shopping trips, pool parties.  But I soon realised that life isn't actually like High School Musical .  Homework, drama, revision, relationships, exams, stress.  Being a teenager is hard.  Our generation don't make it easy for each other.  Like lions, they go for the weaker ones, shred them apart and eat them alive.  You can't be different.  You can't be too pale, too dark, too short, too tall, too skinny, too fat, too quiet, too loud.  You have to have the perfect face, the body of a Kardashian, expensive clothes, the latest phone.  Why are we hunting our own kind?  Being a teenager is hard.  8am-3pm are the worst hours of the day.  You can't wear what you want, talk when you want, go to the toilet when you want.  When you walk through the doors at 8.30, you are no longer an individual - just another Fea...

I hate a lot of things about the world: people going on their phones why I'm trying to talk to them, slow walkers, homework.  But today I'm going to speak about something that all children and even parents will agree with.  We should get rid of school uniform.  If we could change anything about schools, it should 100% be the uniform.  Children wake up every morning dreading having to wear that irritating, uncomfortable white shirt shirt with the strangling collar yet again.  It's a pain in the neck (quite literally!).  Even parents hat the thought of school uniform.  Every year you have to rush around making sure your children have all the correct uniform ready and worry that you have forgotten something.  Not only that, but it costs a lot of money to buy uniform.  My parents spent hundreds of pounds for mine and my three siblings' uniforms this year.  Not everyone has the money to do that.  This money could have been better spe...

Every year, several hundred hoax callers are calling 999 more than 10 times a month. These stupid calls include people saying: ·        Is the green part of a potato poisonous? ·        A lady complaining about sprinkles on her ice cream ·        Marmalade theft ·        A chicken walking down the road ·        A man calling to say he had a fly in his ear ·        A man with a ring stuck on his finger ·        A woman who dropped a TV remote and asked for it to be picked up ·        A woman who needed a lift home There were among more than 31,000 non – urgent calls made to the Welsh Ambulance Service in 2013 – 2014! Out of that number, only 3 of them needed hospital treatment. In my opinion, those who ring up the emerg...

Smoking.  If anyone could hear me right now I'd be gagging at even thinking of smoking!  Personally speaking for myself and no-one else, I think smoking is disgusting.  Absolutely nauseating.  I can't even begin to describe how grim it is.  I am apologising in advance to anyone who smokes so... sorry, I guess?  I cannot begin to get my head around why anybody would want to smoke or even vape.  The thought of putting all of those chemicals into your body multiple times a day - why?  So you think you look cool.  Or even you want to do it for health and beauty aspects?  You know, the whole nicotine-stained fingers, maybe bright yellow teeth?  Yes!  That is super duper attractive.  Or if you're really trying hard, no teeth at all!  Amazing.  One downside, you might get a little bit of smelly breath, but don't worry, as you can just carry around gum to knock off that yummy tobacco stench.  Maybe you could eve...

I have not doubt at all that every teenager agrees with my statement that teenagers have too much pressure put on them.  Let's start with school - the Hell that all teenagers despise!  As a teenager myself, I don't really mind school.  I love seeing my friends every day, and some of my subjects I can never wait for!  However, the minute you step into the jaws of KS4, there is so much pressure that it makes you feel as if you have just been smacked to the floor.  Homework.  In my opinion, homework should stop immediately in KS4.  We always have way too much.  Then, when tests come along, there is always some decision to be made: Do I get a detention for no homework, or do I revise really well to get a grade that determines everything?!  Now teachers, what would you rather we choose?  I'm guessing revision, so why do you set homework?  Now, let me tell you something.  Teenagers are the most likely to attract health problems...

As a child, there's nothing more exciting than hearing the phrase, "We're going to the zoo".  Even parents enjoy going because they get the chance to see animals they would never have seen otherwise.  However, as much as it is a pleasure for us, being in a zoo is an animal's worst nightmare. To start off with, keeping animals in cages is cruel.  They are supposed to have freedom and be in their natural environment.  In some zoos, there isn't enough room for them to roam, which will increase the animal's boredom.  This could lead to animal getting irritated and agitated.  An example of this is when you see lions pacing up and down after having children tap and bang on the glass enclosures.  These poor animals!  What did they do wrong in order for us to lock them up?  Personally for me, although I'm sure many of you will also agree, I would much rather see my siblings being kept in these cages - not these innocent, desperate animals. Anothe...

We all know the pain of having to crawl out of bed at 6:30 and put on an itchy, unflattering school uniform. For at least 6 hours a day say students lose their sense of self identity and are forced to comply with school rules and, while it's not all that bad, it would make our lives that little bit easier if we were allowed to dress how we wanted. I’m not saying completely let us loose, just to at least give us a bit more freedom. Teachers will tell you we wear a uniform because you will have to wear one in the future. However, some jobs aren’t like this. Some say to dress business casual and I can guarantee at least 50%   of us don’t even know what business casual looks like! Even if your job does have a uniform, school doesn’t prepare you for what to wear to the interview. Another thing teachers will say is   that we do it as some parents don’t have the money to buy new clothes   all the time. This is a very valid point. However, my school uniform for a girl (excl...

Now, I'm not the type of person to get annoyed easily, but this causes me pain, anguish and anxiety.  It really gets under my skin.  I know you're sitting there like 'what is it?'; you're just ready for a nap.  But the statement is this:  Dogs should be kept on leads on public footpaths.  I know, I know.  It sounds really stupid - so I'll tell you why.  One day, I was riding on my bike, minding my own business, and this devil-like creature came out of nowhere and starting running towards my bike.  I squeezed my brakes as fast as humanly possible and my bike skidded across the dust-ridden ground.  The dust flew up around my bike and all I could hear was the yapping of that dog.  The owner furiously came running over, repeatedly saying 'sorry' and picked up the dog and walked away.  I just stood there shell-shocked.  I don't know if you have had an experience like that, but I was shaken up for the rest of the bike ride.  ...

Stockpiling.  That is all we are hearing in the news lately.  Selfish, insensitive, greedy human beings piling food, drink and toiletries in their houses.  And for what?  Maybe they think the person who invented toilet paper is going to say, 'You know what?  I'm not selling toilet paper any more.  Sorry, guys'.  Or maybe they are just heartless individuals who charge into the supermarket, collecting excessive amount because, you know, 'just in case'.  Who knows?  But the thing that breaks my heart is how our society crumbles at the slightest inconvenience; maybe people think there might be a small food shortage because of the virus, but there's not! There is enough food in our country for everyone.  Think about deprived people in less-privileged countries who are starving, malnourished and having walk three miles a day just to drink filthy water.  Or what about the older generation, who walk into a shop with their weekly pensi...

10 seconds on the clock. He’s got the ball. One step, dribble, two step, dribble, he sets himself up for the shot. 3 seconds on the clock, he shoots and... this isn’t a basketball match. This is the rare yet oddly frequent occurrence of moving in the same direction as someone trying to walk past you on a narrow path, AKA sidestepping. I hate sidestepping in public. There isn’t anything more awkward, infuriating and time wasting than trying to get past someone in the street and for you or them to try and be polite and move out the way of the other.  However 80% of the time you are both being kind, and move out the way but in the same direction, which then causes a tango of movements like it were an intricate Latino dance - Cha Cha Cha. You  almost  walk into each other but stop with a grinding halt on the pavement. An awkward laugh slips out of your mouth, and of course because we live in Britain, an exchange of ‘sorry’, even from the one who was doing the right th...