0:00:02 > 0:00:04This is Dockbridge High, a school just like yours.
0:00:04 > 0:00:07For two years, our cameras have followed day-to-day life here.
0:00:07 > 0:00:11There have been highs and lows.
0:00:11 > 0:00:14We returned for another year to find out how these talented teachers
0:00:14 > 0:00:19continue to excite and inspire a generation of young, eager minds
0:00:19 > 0:00:21at this most ordinary of schools.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25This is Class Dismissed.
0:00:27 > 0:00:29SCHOOL BELL RINGS
0:00:31 > 0:00:33It's the first day of a brand-new term,
0:00:33 > 0:00:38and child-fearing head Hilary Head seems surprisingly calm.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40Did you go abroad this summer, Mrs Head?
0:00:40 > 0:00:42Oh, no need, Mr Potter. No need.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44A change is as good as a holiday,
0:00:44 > 0:00:47and I'm so pleased everything's changed around here.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49Look at my lovely empty playground.
0:00:49 > 0:00:53I'm so glad we decided to get rid of those pesky children.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56- We didn't get rid of them.- What?!
0:00:56 > 0:00:59It's just been the holidays. They're coming back today.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01They're coming back?!
0:01:01 > 0:01:03DISTANT SCREAMING
0:01:08 > 0:01:11Children, children!
0:01:11 > 0:01:13Why do they even exist?
0:01:13 > 0:01:14KNOCK AT DOOR
0:01:20 > 0:01:23As the staff and students flood into the playground...
0:01:24 > 0:01:29..Emily, Tahj, Jasmine and Billy are clearly thrilled to be back.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32This is, without a doubt, the worst day of the year.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35Could be worse. At least our mums don't work here.
0:01:36 > 0:01:37Come along, Marky!
0:01:39 > 0:01:42- I ain't even saying it. - What, that she ain't your mum?
0:01:42 > 0:01:44But she's not my mum!
0:01:45 > 0:01:48Oh, my days, man!
0:01:48 > 0:01:49How many times?
0:01:49 > 0:01:51SCHOOL BELL RINGS
0:01:54 > 0:01:55It's straight to lessons,
0:01:55 > 0:01:58and ex-nursery school teacher Miss Fun With Numbers
0:01:58 > 0:02:00wants to make sure that the start of the school year
0:02:00 > 0:02:03is as fun as possible.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05I like fun!
0:02:05 > 0:02:08Everything should be fun!
0:02:08 > 0:02:10Do you know what fun is?
0:02:10 > 0:02:12Can you spell fun?
0:02:14 > 0:02:20Hello, everyone! And wave a big hello to your new school!
0:02:20 > 0:02:24Now, I know it can be scary being in a new school,
0:02:24 > 0:02:27with lots of new faces, which is why...
0:02:27 > 0:02:29Excuse me, miss.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32What do we do if we want to speak?
0:02:33 > 0:02:35SHE GASPS
0:02:35 > 0:02:37Looks like we've got a question.
0:02:37 > 0:02:38What is it, little girl?
0:02:38 > 0:02:40Just...we're not a new class.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42You had us last year.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44What a lovely question!
0:02:45 > 0:02:47Now, as I was saying,
0:02:47 > 0:02:49I'm going to teach you all a new song
0:02:49 > 0:02:52that'll help you make new friends!
0:02:52 > 0:02:54Are you ready?
0:02:56 > 0:02:58# New school today
0:02:58 > 0:03:00# It's all so new
0:03:00 > 0:03:02# And so we're asking
0:03:02 > 0:03:03# Who are you? #
0:03:03 > 0:03:06Miss, seriously, we were all here last year,
0:03:06 > 0:03:09so we don't need to sing the song.
0:03:09 > 0:03:10OK.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12I see.
0:03:12 > 0:03:13I see how it is.
0:03:13 > 0:03:14OK.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17Let me just get something, boys and girls.
0:03:24 > 0:03:27So, we can either sing the lovely song,
0:03:27 > 0:03:29or we can play dress-up,
0:03:29 > 0:03:32where we dress up as our favourite fairy-tale characters
0:03:32 > 0:03:34and then sing the song.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36So, which one will it be?
0:03:36 > 0:03:38- ALL:- The song.
0:03:38 > 0:03:42Great! And a one and a two...
0:03:42 > 0:03:44- # New school today - # New school today
0:03:44 > 0:03:46- # It's all so new - # It's all so new
0:03:46 > 0:03:48- # And so we're asking - # And so we're asking
0:03:48 > 0:03:50- # Who are you? - # Who are you? #
0:03:50 > 0:03:52SCHOOL BELL RINGS
0:03:52 > 0:03:53Next, it's English,
0:03:53 > 0:03:57and Mr Capp has undergone an image change over the summer.
0:03:58 > 0:04:03# People read Shakespeare in mysterious ways... #
0:04:03 > 0:04:07Any similarity to Ed Sheeran's face, music or personality
0:04:07 > 0:04:09is purely coincidental.
0:04:09 > 0:04:14# Cos me, I read a sonnet every single day
0:04:15 > 0:04:17# And I just want to teach you Oh, man! #
0:04:18 > 0:04:22- Nice one, Mr Capp.- Namaste, Jasmine.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25- What does that mean?- It means I've been travelling, sister, yeah.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27I've seen and done things that have changed me.
0:04:27 > 0:04:30I've been to some far-out places.
0:04:30 > 0:04:32- Where did you go travelling, sir? - Deep inside...
0:04:33 > 0:04:36- ..here!- Yeah, but where, literally?
0:04:36 > 0:04:38Literally...
0:04:38 > 0:04:39..Pratt's Bottom, Kent.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44Yeah, I was chilling at a festival. Oh, what's that?
0:04:44 > 0:04:46I've been to a festival? No biggie.
0:04:46 > 0:04:47HE LAUGHS NERVOUSLY
0:04:47 > 0:04:50Oh, this? It's my wristband.
0:04:50 > 0:04:53My festival wristband, from the festival.
0:04:53 > 0:04:54Don't touch it!
0:04:54 > 0:04:56I don't think there's any danger of that, sir.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59Yeah, I was dancing -
0:04:59 > 0:05:01in the chilling fields -
0:05:01 > 0:05:05and I suddenly had this epiphany.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09If you rearrange the letters from the word "English", you get...
0:05:09 > 0:05:12..he sing!
0:05:12 > 0:05:14Oh, wow!
0:05:14 > 0:05:15What about the L in "English", sir?
0:05:17 > 0:05:20Yeah, that's what I said. He sing L.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22And who am I to disobey?
0:05:23 > 0:05:26Guitar.
0:05:26 > 0:05:33# Cos Year 10, I will be teaching you till you're 17. #
0:05:35 > 0:05:36GUITAR STRING TWANGS
0:05:36 > 0:05:38Oh, my festival wristband's caught.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40Ah!
0:05:41 > 0:05:44- I'm chill, I'm chill!- Oh, man!
0:05:44 > 0:05:45Ah!
0:05:45 > 0:05:47Ah!
0:05:47 > 0:05:48His beard's caught.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50LAUGHTER
0:05:52 > 0:05:54Yeah, I actually quite like it like this, so...
0:05:54 > 0:05:56Joke's on you.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Banter! Ah!
0:05:58 > 0:06:01SCHOOL BELL RINGS
0:06:03 > 0:06:04Break time,
0:06:04 > 0:06:07and head Hilary Head is getting to the bottom of her fear of children
0:06:07 > 0:06:09with counsellor Joy.
0:06:09 > 0:06:13My parents never wanted children,
0:06:13 > 0:06:16so from an early age, they dressed me as an adult,
0:06:16 > 0:06:19and I think that's where it all began.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21That's really great sharing.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24SCHOOL BELL RINGS
0:06:27 > 0:06:30After break, Year 10 are in drama,
0:06:30 > 0:06:33and self-appointed head of arts, not including actual art,
0:06:33 > 0:06:34Mr Christopher,
0:06:34 > 0:06:37has got a big announcement about what happened on his holidays.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41I almost didn't come back this term.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45I met with several theatre directors over the summer, but, well,
0:06:45 > 0:06:47I didn't want to work with them either.
0:06:50 > 0:06:51- WHISPERS:- Martin.
0:06:55 > 0:06:56Oh!
0:06:58 > 0:07:00Oh! Oh!
0:07:03 > 0:07:07Now, what you saw there was the actor's jog and bow.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10It's the most important part of any performance -
0:07:10 > 0:07:12accepting your applause.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15And if you're really lucky, you might get a standing ovation.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17They won't.
0:07:17 > 0:07:22Anyway, you're going to take turns trying the actor's jog and bow.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24Emily, you're up.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30Woo! Yeah!
0:07:30 > 0:07:32- Woo!- Thanks, Bill.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34Stop! Stop!
0:07:34 > 0:07:36RECORD SCRATCHES
0:07:36 > 0:07:39You never, ever talk to the audience, OK?
0:07:39 > 0:07:41Except for to go...
0:07:41 > 0:07:43HE MOUTHS
0:07:43 > 0:07:47Now watch moi do it again and learn something. Martin, play.
0:07:50 > 0:07:51Ah!
0:07:53 > 0:07:56Oh, look how modest I am!
0:07:56 > 0:07:59And now I invite the audience to applaud the random person
0:07:59 > 0:08:01that presses buttons.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07Actually, no, Come to think of it, don't applaud Martin.
0:08:07 > 0:08:08It will just go to his head.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11And more modest bowing from moi.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13There we go.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15Thank you.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17Argh!
0:08:17 > 0:08:20I've done my back in. Ah!
0:08:20 > 0:08:22No, don't stop applauding.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26Dangerous industry, this.
0:08:26 > 0:08:27More.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32Just applaud me as I lie here, it's probably easier.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35More. More.
0:08:35 > 0:08:36Just keep going.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39SCHOOL BELL RINGS
0:08:43 > 0:08:46For Year 8, it's science next and a new teacher
0:08:46 > 0:08:49means another distinctly original teaching approach.
0:08:52 > 0:08:56I am Mrs Stein and that was lesson one - the laws of motion.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59Lesson two - bring a towel to science class.
0:09:00 > 0:09:04Right, Isaac Newton's first law of motion states
0:09:04 > 0:09:07that an object will remain at rest or in motion
0:09:07 > 0:09:09until a force acts upon it.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13The custard pie was at rest on my desk until I put it into motion,
0:09:13 > 0:09:16then it remained in motion until another force acted on it,
0:09:16 > 0:09:18in this instance, that girl's face.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20Right, but did it have to be a pie?
0:09:20 > 0:09:23Oh, no, no, no. It could have been jelly.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28Right, I want you all to do the same experiment, OK?
0:09:28 > 0:09:32Put on your science goggles, use my exact same method,
0:09:32 > 0:09:34load up your apparatus.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36Quickly now, science hates a dawdler.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39And remember to warn everybody around you,
0:09:39 > 0:09:42"Stand back, we're doing science."
0:09:42 > 0:09:45ALL: Stand back, we're doing science.
0:09:45 > 0:09:46Hang on, I'm not ready.
0:09:49 > 0:09:50Excellent work, everyone.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52The laws of motion in action.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54Now write that up for next week.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56- Clean it up, please.- Messy girl.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58SCHOOL BELL RINGS
0:09:58 > 0:10:01Lunchtime, and head Hilary Head's fear of children
0:10:01 > 0:10:04is making it rather hard to get her lunch.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07Let me through!
0:10:07 > 0:10:09Oh, get away!
0:10:11 > 0:10:13Meanwhile in the playground, Mark is regretting
0:10:13 > 0:10:17rejecting his long-term crush Marcella at the end of last term.
0:10:17 > 0:10:21I've always tried to be a really good friend to her, haven't I?
0:10:21 > 0:10:22- Yeah, really good friend.- I know.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25However, he's come up with a new plan to win her back.
0:10:25 > 0:10:27So you're going to ignore her
0:10:27 > 0:10:29and refuse to talk to her
0:10:29 > 0:10:31and that's going to make her want to be with you.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34Yeah, got to play hard to get, innit? Easy.
0:10:34 > 0:10:35- Is she looking at me?- No.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37- How about now?- No.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39- How about now? How about now?- No.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42How about now? How about...now?
0:10:42 > 0:10:43Just go and talk to her!
0:10:43 > 0:10:46- Marky! Oh!- Hi, Mum.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48I mean, miss!
0:10:48 > 0:10:49Can I just...?
0:10:49 > 0:10:51It's just that...
0:10:51 > 0:10:53I need to get...
0:10:53 > 0:10:56No son of mine is talking to a girl like that one.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59There's only one woman in your life and do you know who that is?
0:10:59 > 0:11:00Beyonce?
0:11:00 > 0:11:02- Me.- Now come along, Marky.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06This is all your fault!
0:11:06 > 0:11:07Marky!
0:11:08 > 0:11:11Marky might look like he's ready for girlfriends
0:11:11 > 0:11:14but he's simply not mature enough.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17I am mature! What are you talking about?
0:11:17 > 0:11:19You're not mature.
0:11:19 > 0:11:20Sorry, Mum.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23SCHOOL BELL RINGS
0:11:25 > 0:11:28In the afternoon it's double geography for Year 10,
0:11:28 > 0:11:30who are joined by a familiar face.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35Miss Davis, you're back?
0:11:35 > 0:11:36Hello, dears!
0:11:36 > 0:11:39I've started doing some supply teaching.
0:11:40 > 0:11:44When she was here last time, she...
0:11:44 > 0:11:47..you know...trumped a lot.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50All the time.
0:11:50 > 0:11:51But maybe she's changed.
0:11:51 > 0:11:55I spent last year travelling the world in a hot-air balloon.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Hot air? Where's the Tommy squeaker?
0:11:59 > 0:12:02It changed me, it really did.
0:12:02 > 0:12:03Maybe it did.
0:12:03 > 0:12:07It also changed my bank balance to zero, so here I am!
0:12:09 > 0:12:12Today, we're going to be talking about volcanoes.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14I'm not taking any risks.
0:12:14 > 0:12:17Now, volcanoes can lie dormant for many years
0:12:17 > 0:12:24but all the while they're filling up with large quantities of hot gas,
0:12:24 > 0:12:28which, as you can see here, eventually escapes
0:12:28 > 0:12:31from the magma chamber deep down below.
0:12:31 > 0:12:35You will find most volcanoes on the Pacific Ocean
0:12:35 > 0:12:38which is what they call the "ring of fire".
0:12:38 > 0:12:40Maybe she really has changed.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43The first warning sign is a rumble coming up from down below...
0:12:43 > 0:12:44PARP!
0:12:44 > 0:12:50..often leading to a sudden, violent volcanic eruption.
0:12:50 > 0:12:54PPFFFRRRTTT!
0:13:03 > 0:13:05It's the end of the first day of term
0:13:05 > 0:13:07and it's clear that it's very much
0:13:07 > 0:13:10business as usual at Dockbridge High.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13- Is Marcella looking at me now?- No.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16- How about now?- No.- How about now? - I think she's already gone, mate.
0:13:18 > 0:13:22One day down, only 189 of the school year left.
0:13:22 > 0:13:23Sweet!
0:13:29 > 0:13:32# I'm walking on sunshine
0:13:32 > 0:13:34# Whoa-oh
0:13:34 > 0:13:36# And don't it feel good
0:13:36 > 0:13:38# Hey, all right now
0:13:38 > 0:13:41# And don't it feel good... #