0:00:02 > 0:00:04This is Dockbridge High - a school just like yours,
0:00:04 > 0:00:06a school like any other.
0:00:06 > 0:00:10A place where bright young minds are taught by some of the wisest,
0:00:10 > 0:00:13most respected members of the teaching profession.
0:00:13 > 0:00:17Our cameras filmed for a year to find out what life is really like
0:00:17 > 0:00:21for the students and their teachers at this most ordinary of schools.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Welcome to Class Dismissed.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32It's a brand-new day at Dockbridge High.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35And it's time to get down to business, in Business Studies.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38Mr Windlow is throwing Team Thrust in at the deep end,
0:00:38 > 0:00:40which coincidentally,
0:00:40 > 0:00:43is what happened to their last swimming teacher.
0:00:43 > 0:00:44Deal.
0:00:46 > 0:00:50- Sorry, just tying up a sponsor on my garden shed. You. Sell to me.- What?
0:00:50 > 0:00:52You're the salesman, I'm the customer.
0:00:52 > 0:00:56- I haven't got anything to sell. - Don't give me excuses.- Uh...
0:00:56 > 0:00:59This is a really good...textbook.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02Uh, sell the sizzle, not the sausage.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04- What?- You're fired.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11Team Thrust, all got your textbooks?
0:01:11 > 0:01:14- ALL: Yes, sir.- Hit the phones and start selling them.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16There is plenty more in the stockroom.
0:01:16 > 0:01:17We haven't got phones, sir.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20Right, you are going to have to go door-to-door.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22Selling our textbooks to other classes?
0:01:22 > 0:01:23Great idea!
0:01:23 > 0:01:27You're project manager. Let's do business. And remember...
0:01:27 > 0:01:31At the end of this, one of you be will leaving the process.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34- DOOR OPENS - Sir, can I...?- Fired!
0:01:36 > 0:01:39Sales is a very important skill.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42I wouldn't be stood here today if I couldn't sell,
0:01:42 > 0:01:45make a lot of money, then resign and become a teacher.
0:01:45 > 0:01:50I could literally sell the shirt off my back. And I literally have.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58- Do you want to buy a book, sir? - Books are for losers.
0:02:07 > 0:02:08Hello again.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10There are lots of rules at Dockbridge High.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13No running in the corridors, no chewing gum.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16- No bikes inside the building. - Unless you're Mr Capp.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21Sir, what are you doing?
0:02:21 > 0:02:24Hey, chill, Jazzoo. I'm allowed. I'm a teacher.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27But it doesn't mean you're allowed to graffiti the walls.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29Doesn't it? Whatevs.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31- Hold this.- Whaaat?
0:02:33 > 0:02:34Jasmine!
0:02:36 > 0:02:39My office. Now.
0:02:39 > 0:02:40Great(!)
0:02:44 > 0:02:47- Why would I write Mr Capp on the wall?- I don't know, Jasmine.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50Why would you write Mr Capp on the wall?
0:02:50 > 0:02:52Ah, Mrs McIntire.
0:02:52 > 0:02:56You've caught me in the middle of some important deputy head duties.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58Disciplining Jasmine for graffiti.
0:02:58 > 0:03:00I was just about to do the same at myself.
0:03:00 > 0:03:01As deputy head,
0:03:01 > 0:03:04- I'm sending you to isolation for the rest of the lesson.- Pah!
0:03:04 > 0:03:07As deputy head, I'd give her a detention.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09Well, I'm giving you two detentions.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11I'd give her detention for a week
0:03:11 > 0:03:15and get her to clean the graffiti using her own toothbrush.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17I'm putting you on litter duty for a month.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19A month?! I'd give her six.
0:03:19 > 0:03:23Ten months detention, three years litter duty, and...
0:03:23 > 0:03:26you have to help build the new school learning annexe,
0:03:26 > 0:03:28which is due for completion in 2026.
0:03:28 > 0:03:30I'll be 23 by then, sir.
0:03:30 > 0:03:34Well you better make a start then, hadn't you? Off you go.
0:03:34 > 0:03:35Off you go!
0:03:40 > 0:03:42MOUTHS SILENTLY
0:03:43 > 0:03:46Mr Capp. Inside. Now.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56In the textiles classroom, Miss Dior-Durant is catching up
0:03:56 > 0:04:01with old friends while her class are waiting to enter the room again.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03Properly this time.
0:04:03 > 0:04:04Enter. >
0:04:06 > 0:04:09DANCE MUSIC PLAYS
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Oh! Awful clothes.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13Oh, please.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16I hate it, your trouser. Oh!
0:04:16 > 0:04:20Who even wears a uniform any more?
0:04:20 > 0:04:22It's so last season. I know.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24Unt end.
0:04:25 > 0:04:29You come in properly first time next time.
0:04:29 > 0:04:30Tired now.
0:04:30 > 0:04:31Leave.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34THEY MUMBLE
0:04:34 > 0:04:35Photo time.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38SCHOOL BELL RINGS
0:04:38 > 0:04:39No smiling.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48Trainee teacher Miss Pinkham's father
0:04:48 > 0:04:50is head of the board of governors,
0:04:50 > 0:04:53which is in no way related to how she got this job.
0:04:53 > 0:04:56OK, Chelsea Pinkham here.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00But you can totes call me Wizz, literally everyone does.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03My pet hates are pink on a butler,
0:05:03 > 0:05:06helicopters that haven't even been personalised,
0:05:06 > 0:05:09oh, and Pipi Kensington, who literally copied me
0:05:09 > 0:05:11with this whole jewel-encrusted yacht thing.
0:05:11 > 0:05:17Magda, darling, share, sharey the canapes. Magda is like my PA.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19She's a total ledge.
0:05:19 > 0:05:23So, epically non-cool question etiquette wise,
0:05:23 > 0:05:26but why are you all so small?
0:05:26 > 0:05:27We're children.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30Oh, squee. Like Princess Charlotte.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33- Well, not really because she's a baby.- Amazeballs. I've met her.
0:05:33 > 0:05:37Yah. She, like, totally mentioned something about that baby thing.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39Oh, this is too funny. I'm texting her.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42Magda, darling, text, texty.
0:05:42 > 0:05:46So is being really short part of being a children?
0:05:46 > 0:05:48Like a jockey? Or an interior designer?
0:05:48 > 0:05:49We're children.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51Oh, my goodness.
0:05:51 > 0:05:55It's March! Why are we not skiing? We totally need to go skiing.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59Oh, Magda, darling, text, texty for the jets.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01SHE LAUGHS
0:06:01 > 0:06:02Yeah!
0:06:02 > 0:06:05Last one to the lodge is a loser.
0:06:05 > 0:06:09SHE GIGGLES
0:06:09 > 0:06:11As Wizz heads to the slopes,
0:06:11 > 0:06:14dinner lady Mrs Tucker has another tempting deal on offer.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18Boys, boys, boys. Have I got an offer for you!
0:06:18 > 0:06:22- Not today, thanks, Mrs Tucker. - We've got everything we want.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25- Pasta, salad, juice.- We are sorted. Thank you anyway, miss.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27Fair enough, boys. Fair enough.
0:06:27 > 0:06:31You are clearly not interested in upgrading your dining experience.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33What do you mean upgrading?
0:06:33 > 0:06:37Oh, just this first-class, luxury dining package I've got on offer.
0:06:37 > 0:06:38For one day only.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41- First-class? - Don't fall for it, Billy.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44You listen to your friend. It's not for you gents.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46You wouldn't be interested in a three-course lunch
0:06:46 > 0:06:49then watching a massive TV in a reclining chair
0:06:49 > 0:06:52with a couple of Year 7s waiting on you hand and foot.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54All for just an extra four quid.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57And I give you my personal guarantee on that.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00Nah, I'm not falling for that. Forget it.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03Fair enough, boys. Fair enough. I'll catch you later.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08There is no way we'd get all that for four quid.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11- We can get a table. - Yeah, let's go, man.
0:07:11 > 0:07:15GENTLE CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:07:15 > 0:07:18That was the best £4 we ever spent.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21# Aaaaaaaaaaah... #
0:07:21 > 0:07:24Music teacher Mr Christopher's incredibly high standards
0:07:24 > 0:07:28are only surpassed by his incredibly high voice.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31# Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah. #
0:07:31 > 0:07:34And that's a high C. Thanks for asking, Martin.
0:07:34 > 0:07:38So we're all here today to practise this.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40A tube with holes in it.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42What is this, the 1690s?
0:07:42 > 0:07:45No-one ever won Britain's got talent playing a recorder, did they?
0:07:45 > 0:07:46No.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49THEY LAUGH
0:07:49 > 0:07:54OK. So, recorders are out and street dance is in.
0:07:54 > 0:07:55Am I right, guys?
0:07:55 > 0:07:57- Yes, sir! - STUDENTS SNIGGER
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Yeah, I'm right.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02So we're going to be doing some freestyle street dance.
0:08:02 > 0:08:06And remember, there are no wrong answers in dance.
0:08:06 > 0:08:08- Unless you get it wrong. - EMILY SIGHS
0:08:08 > 0:08:11So I'm going to be accompanying you on the drums.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14Doo-be-doo-be-doo.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16OK, so five, six, eight, and...
0:08:16 > 0:08:19- SLOW BEATS - Dance!
0:08:19 > 0:08:21And dance.
0:08:21 > 0:08:23And dance.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25And dance.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27And dance.
0:08:27 > 0:08:30Let me see your high Cs, everyone.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32THEY ALL SHRIEK
0:08:32 > 0:08:34Martin, tell me you're filming this.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36Landscape, Martin. Landscape.
0:08:36 > 0:08:43# Aaaaaaaaaaaah... #
0:08:43 > 0:08:45It's time for General Studies,
0:08:45 > 0:08:48a lesson where literally any topic could crop up.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50And often does.
0:08:55 > 0:08:56Hello. Good afternoon.
0:08:56 > 0:09:02And welcome to General Studies with me, your teacher, Mr Scofield.
0:09:02 > 0:09:03APPLAUSE
0:09:03 > 0:09:06It's time to meet today's contestant.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10Let's have a nice, warm welcome for Emily from 8B.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:09:14 > 0:09:17Welcome, Emily. And where have you come from today?
0:09:17 > 0:09:18My desk.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21Ooh, my desk. Lovely part of the world.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24Now, Emily, I don't need to remind you that if you win General Studies,
0:09:24 > 0:09:28you will not only receive a GCSE or equivalent qualification...
0:09:28 > 0:09:30STUDENTS: Oooooh!
0:09:30 > 0:09:32But you also take away
0:09:32 > 0:09:36the General Studies souvenir question mark.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38STUDENTS: Oooooh!
0:09:38 > 0:09:43The big question on everyone's lips is what is today's general subject?
0:09:43 > 0:09:47So let's find out and spin that wheel.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52And today's subject is...
0:09:52 > 0:09:54Food.
0:09:54 > 0:09:59Emily, we asked 100 Year 10s to name varieties of tomato.
0:09:59 > 0:10:04Emily, you need to give me a correct answer that nobody else said. Sh!
0:10:06 > 0:10:08Cherry tomato.
0:10:08 > 0:10:13Cherry tomato. Let's take a look and see if cherry is a scoreless answer.
0:10:15 > 0:10:18Oh, sorry, Emily.
0:10:18 > 0:10:22It wasn't scoreless, I'm afraid. What could she have had, Jasmine?
0:10:22 > 0:10:25Emily should have gone for an answer like Tiny Tim,
0:10:25 > 0:10:27Big Beef or Mr Stripey.
0:10:27 > 0:10:30All of those would have been scoreless answers. Bad luck, Emily.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33But very well done if you got any of those at home.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35She's looking them up on a computer.
0:10:37 > 0:10:38Emily, smile.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43Known for his maverick teaching techniques,
0:10:43 > 0:10:47Mr Capp often mashes up modern-day culture with classical literature.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49With startling results.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51You get me?
0:10:53 > 0:10:57Whoop-whoop! English lit smack down. Holla!
0:10:57 > 0:10:59SMATTERING OF LAUGHTER
0:10:59 > 0:11:02Now, I want you to make some noise for one of the baddest poets
0:11:02 > 0:11:04that ever lived.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07The one, the only, my main man, Mr William Wordsworth.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09Boom!
0:11:09 > 0:11:11You see, the poets of yesteryear
0:11:11 > 0:11:14were a lot like our modern-day rappers.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16Jay-Zed is like Byron.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18P Diddy Whatsit is Siegfried Sassoon.
0:11:18 > 0:11:22And Konye, well, he's Pam Ayers. Know what I'm saying?
0:11:22 > 0:11:27Now, Wordsworth, or The Wordsmith as I like to call him,
0:11:27 > 0:11:30was out walking when he saw some daffodils and he was like,
0:11:30 > 0:11:34"Aiight, I got to get the word back to my peeps."
0:11:34 > 0:11:37So he wrote some fresh lyrics and there was some serious hype.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40Shoutout to the Romantic movement.
0:11:41 > 0:11:45Now, I'm going to rap some of Wordsworth's tight lyrics, yeah,
0:11:45 > 0:11:47to make them more accessible to you young people.
0:11:47 > 0:11:51And we're going to big him up. Are you ready?
0:11:51 > 0:11:54HE BEATBOXES, STUDENTS GROAN
0:11:54 > 0:11:55Yeah.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Uh-huh.
0:11:57 > 0:11:58Hello.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00I wandered lonely as a cloud Whoop-whoop!
0:12:00 > 0:12:02That floats on high over vales and hills
0:12:02 > 0:12:04When all at once I saw crowd
0:12:04 > 0:12:05Say what!
0:12:05 > 0:12:08A host of golden daffodils Daffodils
0:12:08 > 0:12:10D-d-d-d-daffodils
0:12:10 > 0:12:13D-d-d-d-daffodils.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15- HE PANTS - Break it down.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21CLASS LAUGHS
0:12:22 > 0:12:24Aaah!
0:12:24 > 0:12:25STUDENTS: Oh!
0:12:27 > 0:12:30MR CAPP GROANS
0:12:30 > 0:12:34- There are no words. - He ruined Wordsworth and rap.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39Maths teacher Mr Konnundrum likes to use ordinary
0:12:39 > 0:12:44situations as an example of how maths can be used in the real world.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47So, if a man is on the bus...
0:12:49 > 0:12:53..and another man offers to sell him a snake...
0:12:55 > 0:12:59..the snake is priced at £20 per metre...
0:13:01 > 0:13:05..and the man pays £130 for the snake.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11Should the man A - keep the snake,
0:13:11 > 0:13:13since he's paid all that money for it,
0:13:13 > 0:13:17and hide it in his desk at school? Or wherever he works.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19But probably at school.
0:13:19 > 0:13:24Or B - ride around on the bus with the snake
0:13:24 > 0:13:28until he sees the man again and try to get his money back?
0:13:28 > 0:13:29Yes, Tahj.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31Sir, he should call the police and report it.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33Right.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35RATTLING
0:13:37 > 0:13:40RATTLING AND HISSING
0:13:43 > 0:13:44Quiet reading.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48There's a snake in there.
0:13:48 > 0:13:49Huge snake in there.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53SCHOOL BELL RINGS
0:13:53 > 0:13:55Snake Control Unit.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57No, I can't hold. Mmm.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01Bye, darlings. Mwah-mwah. Thanks for coming.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03Thursday comes to an end
0:14:03 > 0:14:07and the students and teachers head home.
0:14:07 > 0:14:09Some more successfully than others.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11And turn. No smiles.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14Walk. Walk. Turn.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16They'll all be back tomorrow...
0:14:16 > 0:14:18if they can drum up the bus fare.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22# Ain't seen nothing yet
0:14:22 > 0:14:26# B-b-baby, you just ain't seen nothing yet
0:14:26 > 0:14:30# Here's something that you're never gonna forget
0:14:30 > 0:14:34# B-b-baby, you just ain't seen n-nothing yet
0:14:34 > 0:14:38# Nothing yet You ain't been around... #