0:00:02 > 0:00:06This programme contains some strong language
0:00:06 > 0:00:08School can be tough, and not just for the students.
0:00:08 > 0:00:11Move from the door, please, move from the door, please, move from the door, please.
0:00:11 > 0:00:15It's exciting. It's not safe, you're not sitting behind a desk.
0:00:15 > 0:00:1950% of teachers leave the job within the first five years.
0:00:19 > 0:00:20Come on, get out.
0:00:20 > 0:00:23But some of the country's top graduates...
0:00:23 > 0:00:24Morning, on this fine day.
0:00:24 > 0:00:26..are determined to give teaching a go.
0:00:26 > 0:00:31Welcome to GCSE Business Studies, I am Mr Beach, like the seaside.
0:00:31 > 0:00:36How much experience do I have as a teacher? Um, none.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39You need to sell this location to me.
0:00:39 > 0:00:43I want to do everyone proud, I want these kids to feel that
0:00:43 > 0:00:46they've had a good teacher this year.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49The catch, they've only had six weeks of training before
0:00:49 > 0:00:51being let loose on the kids.
0:00:53 > 0:00:57When they come into my classroom, they expect to leave with
0:00:57 > 0:01:00something and if I'm not delivering, then I'm failing.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02Are they up to the task?
0:01:02 > 0:01:03Sorry.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08I'm just finding everything really hard.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11Can they change the lives of their pupils?
0:01:11 > 0:01:15- Bottom set, what does that mean to you?- Bum.- Not very smart.
0:01:15 > 0:01:20- I'm going to be Prime Minister one day you'll see.- Nice to see you.
0:01:20 > 0:01:21Six teachers...
0:01:21 > 0:01:24I knew he was posh, I knew it, I knew it, I knew he was posh.
0:01:24 > 0:01:25..three schools...
0:01:25 > 0:01:27Look at my face - you got a C.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32..one unforgettable year.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34- High-five. Oh, yeah.- Cheers, guys.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43- Don't apologise for being late or anything.- Yeah, guys.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46We know you've all been here like 35 minutes or something.
0:01:46 > 0:01:50- Yeah, so now you know what it feels like.- Cheers, guys. - Cheers, well done.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53Six young graduates are on a tough training programme
0:01:53 > 0:01:55run by the charity, Teach First.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58Well, if I'm brutally honest, I've never wanted to be a teacher
0:01:58 > 0:02:01before and when I applied for Teach First, admittedly I applied because
0:02:01 > 0:02:04it's a really great programme and I didn't know where it would take me.
0:02:04 > 0:02:05Yeah, I'm probably the same.
0:02:05 > 0:02:09They trained to be teachers on the job for two years in schools
0:02:09 > 0:02:11in deprived areas of London.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15And she just nailed it straight over one of those bumps, it was like...
0:02:17 > 0:02:20They have now been teaching for over seven months.
0:02:20 > 0:02:24Though still relative novices, they are now expected to be team players.
0:02:29 > 0:02:33We just want them to know that we're together, we're a team.
0:02:33 > 0:02:34Create your own reincarnation game
0:02:34 > 0:02:37and explain that the game "snakes and ladders" came from India.
0:02:37 > 0:02:38Oh, really?
0:02:38 > 0:02:43'You can never be, kind of, too humble,'
0:02:43 > 0:02:47the more feedback you get from your colleagues, the better you become.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50How did Kieran do this stuff?
0:02:50 > 0:02:53The school want to see you be the best teacher that you can be.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55In that sense,
0:02:55 > 0:02:59I can learn so much while I'm there because I've got so much support.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02And if we want to be outstanding, if we want to
0:03:02 > 0:03:07continually be outstanding, we need to move together as a team.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14But one of the teachers is determined to crack on alone.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22I think you need to have energy,
0:03:22 > 0:03:28your own character and a whole heap of determination and resilience.
0:03:28 > 0:03:34There's just no way that you can slack, there's no scope for it,
0:03:34 > 0:03:38above anything, the ability to survive on no sleep.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41And no food, you know, just to be...
0:03:41 > 0:03:45You just have to pretty much be a superhuman.
0:03:46 > 0:03:52Every day at stupid o'clock. Ridiculous.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58Claudenia teaches at Crown Woods in South East London.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01She teaches the brightest students in the college and she faces
0:04:01 > 0:04:03some very demanding pupils.
0:04:04 > 0:04:09Teachers, parents, governors, everyone expects these
0:04:09 > 0:04:12students to be doing well so I would say there is pressure to perform.
0:04:12 > 0:04:16I think it's that pressure that probably does get me up at five or four.
0:04:16 > 0:04:17You don't want it to be you, you just,
0:04:17 > 0:04:19who would want to be the weakest link?
0:04:19 > 0:04:21I don't want to go in, I don't want to do it!
0:04:25 > 0:04:27She has cracked some of her younger year groups,
0:04:27 > 0:04:30but the behaviour in her year 10 science class
0:04:30 > 0:04:32has been getting worse since the start of the year.
0:04:40 > 0:04:45I think I had a very romantic idea about what it's going to be like to be a teacher.
0:04:45 > 0:04:46Boys!
0:04:46 > 0:04:48You know, having great relationships with my students,
0:04:48 > 0:04:51having great lessons and being a great role model,
0:04:51 > 0:04:54inside the classroom, outside the classroom.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56Watch, watch them kick off.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59- Who's going to kick off? - This lot.
0:05:00 > 0:05:04With my year ten group, I get the feeling sometimes that they
0:05:04 > 0:05:06don't trust me as their teacher.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09OK, so where is Rebecca?
0:05:09 > 0:05:12'I definitely wanted to give up with them,
0:05:12 > 0:05:15'to give up the whole thing, every time they walk in my room,'
0:05:15 > 0:05:17they have probably no idea. I put a big smile on my face,
0:05:17 > 0:05:19but my heart is still going... you know,
0:05:19 > 0:05:23and I still feel sick, you know, standing in front of them.
0:05:23 > 0:05:24They're sliding over each other.
0:05:24 > 0:05:30Her relationship with 14-year-olds Zaineb and Rebecca is particularly difficult.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32The friction are sliding over with the force.
0:05:32 > 0:05:37Ladies, so you are next to Ellie, Rebecca.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40The first thing I want you to finish, all right? If you've done that...
0:05:43 > 0:05:46Is there a reason why you are talking?
0:05:46 > 0:05:49Zaineb, you're late, don't come in disrupting.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59It seems the girls' bad attitude is payback for how Claudenia
0:05:59 > 0:06:03spoke to them at the beginning of the school year.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22I was shocked, I've never had a teacher say that to me before.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24It was as if she was using those terms
0:06:24 > 0:06:28because she felt that out on the streets with our friends, socially,
0:06:28 > 0:06:30we would use those words because we were black.
0:06:30 > 0:06:33If anyone talked to me like that I'm not going to like it, a teacher or not.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36Have you got your planner?
0:06:36 > 0:06:38Can you take it out for me, please?
0:06:38 > 0:06:40Can you take out your planner,
0:06:40 > 0:06:42please, Rebecca?
0:06:44 > 0:06:47And some days she'll be teaching us a subject.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50And no-one will be listening.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52She'll tell people to stop,
0:06:52 > 0:06:55but they don't listen to her, I don't know why.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58- I'm getting a headache. - Freddy, I will not tell you again.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01- Don't shout at me. - OK, so apply that to ethylene.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04Everyone just thinks, oh, a lesson to mess around because she is young,
0:07:04 > 0:07:07I'll take advantage of her, just talk to our friends and everything.
0:07:07 > 0:07:11The level of noise and the way that you are messing around is not
0:07:11 > 0:07:14currently appropriate for a science lab.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17I don't feel sorry for her, I don't feel sorry for any teacher.
0:07:17 > 0:07:21When you come to work in a secondary school, you know, you're going to get grief from kids.
0:07:21 > 0:07:25Yeah, but she is, like, young, like, a new teacher.
0:07:25 > 0:07:29She hasn't really any proper experience, that's why I feel sorry for her.
0:07:29 > 0:07:33Sorry, you have to be impartial, a teacher's a teacher, young,
0:07:33 > 0:07:36old, black, white, it doesn't matter.
0:07:36 > 0:07:40Good, right, can I collect your books and I'll see you next week?
0:07:40 > 0:07:46With this group particularly, everything you say is challenged
0:07:46 > 0:07:51and becomes into some long dialogue about why, what, when.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53It's always because someone else
0:07:53 > 0:07:57or something else or that thing over there or I'm not sitting down
0:07:57 > 0:08:00because she's talking to me, I'm out of my seat because
0:08:00 > 0:08:01I'm distracted, it's never,
0:08:01 > 0:08:03I'm just not doing what I'm supposed to be doing.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09I can't change their attitude though, can I?
0:08:09 > 0:08:11Only they can change their attitude.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25OK, come on quickly, quickly, some urgency, year eight.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29Another struggler is Meryl,
0:08:29 > 0:08:33who teaches English in the Harefield Academy in North West London.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36OK, what, let's read it together, Bradley.
0:08:36 > 0:08:40'My kids are horrible.'
0:08:40 > 0:08:45They abuse me, they make fun of me
0:08:45 > 0:08:47and they think I don't know, I know. I hear it all.
0:08:47 > 0:08:51But I love these kids, like, how sad is that?
0:08:51 > 0:08:55They're not my kids, I mean, like, biologically speaking.
0:08:55 > 0:08:59Couple of things - Ryan, the neatest handwriting I've seen in my life.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02Well done. Amy Grimshaw, excellent inferences and deductions.
0:09:02 > 0:09:03Sit down.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06But I feel like, a real bond.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10This is our class and this is our learning time
0:09:10 > 0:09:14and this is our English room and, yeah, it's a bit creepy.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17This table, off you go.
0:09:19 > 0:09:23When Meryl started teaching she had only just learnt to drive.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26I remember how it felt learning to drive and it was a really,
0:09:26 > 0:09:28really humbling experience.
0:09:28 > 0:09:29After about 15 minutes
0:09:29 > 0:09:32they said, "You're too dangerous to be on the road."
0:09:33 > 0:09:37Unfortunately, it's not the only thing she's struggled with.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41Unable to control the kids in her classes,
0:09:41 > 0:09:44Meryl was given a written warning about her performance.
0:09:44 > 0:09:48Your work has been designated as a cause for concern.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51This means that in the professional judgment of colleagues,
0:09:51 > 0:09:53if you continue at your current rate of progress,
0:09:53 > 0:09:55your work will not provide sufficient evidence
0:09:55 > 0:09:59to achieve qualified teacher status by the end of the year.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02Since then, she has received extra training
0:10:02 > 0:10:04and has started showing signs of improvement.
0:10:06 > 0:10:10Don't call out. We need to try and be using more creative language.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14- Better than last time.- Yeah. - Why, what was better?
0:10:14 > 0:10:16Still a long way to go, but establishing a bit more control.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19You've got to circulate more, the pace, the timing, you know
0:10:19 > 0:10:23I was pleased with that, but you're still not out of the woods really.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26There's still quite a way to go with that group.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29At the end of the week, Meryl is being observed.
0:10:29 > 0:10:35It will be the final assessment to see if she can be taken off "cause for concern".
0:10:35 > 0:10:40This is my time to show the school, to show Teach First, that I can be
0:10:40 > 0:10:46a good teacher. I will be here next year. I can be good for these kids.
0:10:46 > 0:10:50However, her week has not got off to a very good start.
0:10:55 > 0:11:00Top secret, I crashed my car and it's currently...
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Why is that funny?!
0:11:02 > 0:11:07If you could help me carry the stuff out of my car you cannot,
0:11:07 > 0:11:10number one, tell everyone, "Oh, madam crashed her car."
0:11:10 > 0:11:15Number two, you can't laugh at my car. Number three...
0:11:17 > 0:11:20There's really just those first two rules, OK?
0:11:21 > 0:11:25You laugh at my hat, there's going to be serious trouble.
0:11:31 > 0:11:32Is there a problem?
0:11:33 > 0:11:35There's a bag.
0:11:35 > 0:11:40Oh, God, that's not going to fit, is it? Oh, my God.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43Oh, my God, I've never actually seen it up close and personal
0:11:43 > 0:11:45and in daylight.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48I should probably take a picture of it.
0:11:48 > 0:11:52- Actually, I'm going to take a picture of it.- No, don't take a picture, no!
0:11:52 > 0:11:55- I'm going to post it on Facebook. - Don't post it on Facebook!
0:11:55 > 0:11:57Right, let's rock'n'roll.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00Those pictures need to be deleted now, now!
0:12:00 > 0:12:03Come on, come on, come on.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09Also at Harefield is Maths teacher Nicholas.
0:12:09 > 0:12:15Like all of the novice teachers, he's been asked to teach two hours of life skills each week.
0:12:15 > 0:12:19And he's about to cover a topic that's got him hot under the collar.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21I've been a bit nervous because don't know really
0:12:21 > 0:12:25what I'm going to say about pictures like that but we'll see how it goes.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27I have really enjoyed life skills,
0:12:27 > 0:12:30teaching two year-seven groups has been so nice
0:12:30 > 0:12:35because year seven are still at an age where you can influence them.
0:12:35 > 0:12:39Puberty and all that goes with it as a topic is awkward
0:12:39 > 0:12:43and sensitive. It's just not normal.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46And at the end, I do want them to all write on a piece of paper
0:12:46 > 0:12:51a question they have that can be confidential and I'll answer it in the lesson.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54What's your sort of experience in this area?
0:12:54 > 0:12:57Zilch. I have no experience in this area whatsoever.
0:12:57 > 0:13:01Apart from having a willy myself. Here we go.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05Come and stand behind your chairs. Off we go.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08Nick has observed a colleague teach the same subject
0:13:08 > 0:13:11and he has a bold way of approaching the awkwardness head-on.
0:13:11 > 0:13:15OK, everyone listening up. Today we're doing a special topic, OK?
0:13:15 > 0:13:17Puberty, OK.
0:13:17 > 0:13:21I want the whole class to think of all the slang swearwords
0:13:21 > 0:13:25you can think of and then we're going to translate them
0:13:25 > 0:13:26into the correct terms.
0:13:26 > 0:13:27OK, Tia.
0:13:29 > 0:13:30Sorry?
0:13:30 > 0:13:31GIGGLES
0:13:31 > 0:13:33Nice and loud.
0:13:36 > 0:13:40What she wanted to say was cunt. Is that right?
0:13:40 > 0:13:44OK, right let's write it up. OK, who knows what a cunt is?
0:13:47 > 0:13:52- Vagina.- Vagina, OK, over to you, pen back, you can pick it up.
0:13:52 > 0:13:54Off you go, vagina. Do you know how to spell it?
0:13:54 > 0:13:56Nice and big. Oh!
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Don't touch the board.
0:13:59 > 0:14:00- Don't touch the board! - THEY LAUGH
0:14:00 > 0:14:03Someone else want to try one? Kurtis.
0:14:03 > 0:14:04- Pussy.- Pussy, very good.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07- Some girls call it a flower. - Do you call it a flower?
0:14:07 > 0:14:09- I've never heard that one. - Dick.
0:14:09 > 0:14:13Dick. OK, off we go, dick. Does anyone know any others? OK. Joe.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16- Cock.- Cock, off we go, OK, very good.
0:14:16 > 0:14:20OK, who knows what the correct term for these three words are?
0:14:20 > 0:14:23- Penis.- Very good, right, let's write penis down.
0:14:23 > 0:14:28OK, what about female, what could we call them as slang words?
0:14:28 > 0:14:30OK, right let's go tits, off we go.
0:14:30 > 0:14:35- Coconuts! - What do we have? Coconuts, OK.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38Who know some words for the act of making a baby.
0:14:38 > 0:14:42- Fuck.- Fuck. Right, let's get it down.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44Now we know what the bad words are, OK,
0:14:44 > 0:14:47we're only going to use the good words, so now you've done that,
0:14:47 > 0:14:50I'm going to come round and give you each a Post-it note and what I'd
0:14:50 > 0:14:52like you to do on this Post-it note
0:14:52 > 0:14:56is write a question that you have. It might concern
0:14:56 > 0:14:58what we've done today, it might be completely separate.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03It's quite tiring, but really good fun. I'm going
0:15:03 > 0:15:06to read their questions. Question - have you done it?
0:15:08 > 0:15:10"Have you done it?" is the question.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13Does your pubes get grey as you get older?
0:15:13 > 0:15:15How big should your penis be?
0:15:15 > 0:15:18How long on from puberty do you start your period?
0:15:18 > 0:15:23Oh, that's clearly a girl worried about it. That's so sweet.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26How do you know when you're horny?
0:15:26 > 0:15:27How do you answer that question?
0:15:27 > 0:15:32I'd say usually you get horny in relation to someone
0:15:32 > 0:15:37and it can be on your own and you know,
0:15:37 > 0:15:42because you have a desire to...
0:15:42 > 0:15:46It's a good question, actually, what do you have a desire to do?
0:15:46 > 0:15:49You're just excited and desire, I don't know, it's weird isn't it?
0:15:49 > 0:15:52How do you know when you're horny? I don't know,
0:15:52 > 0:15:54I'll have to think of some of the answers to those questions.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03Archbishop Lanfranc is a comprehensive in Croydon
0:16:03 > 0:16:05in South London.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08Built in the 1950s, it's showing its age.
0:16:09 > 0:16:13Teaching RE here is 23-year-old Oxford graduate, Charles.
0:16:15 > 0:16:18Morning! We're all quite late this morning, what's going on?
0:16:18 > 0:16:20CHATTER
0:16:23 > 0:16:26One of his biggest challenges has come in the
0:16:26 > 0:16:30form of Caleb, a year-11 boy who spent three years
0:16:30 > 0:16:34in a pupil referral unit for children excluded from school,
0:16:34 > 0:16:38before being allowed into Lanfranc at the end of year 10.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41When you're in the centre, you have to work really hard to
0:16:41 > 0:16:44get back into school and like, I worked my butt off to get
0:16:44 > 0:16:47back into school and now I'm in school, I'm just trying to do right.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49Every other person in the class wrote it out.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53It's just a simple issue of respect.
0:16:53 > 0:16:56Caleb has clashed repeatedly with Charles in the two hours
0:16:56 > 0:16:59- they share every week. - Wait outside, please.
0:16:59 > 0:17:03And his behaviour across the school has gone from bad to worse.
0:17:03 > 0:17:07He's a waste, man, of a teacher. He's not a good teacher at all.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10The deputy head has been losing patience with him.
0:17:10 > 0:17:15Join us or don't bother. That's where it's come with you now.
0:17:15 > 0:17:16I don't need nobody.
0:17:16 > 0:17:20I don't need no family, no teachers, nothing, I don't need shit.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23Teaching isn't just one-way and unless you can get
0:17:23 > 0:17:28something from the other side, it becomes very difficult to progress
0:17:28 > 0:17:32and I don't think that partnership exists between me and Caleb.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36Charles has now moved Caleb next to hard-working Abigail,
0:17:36 > 0:17:38hopeful that her attitude rubs off.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41You don't believe in ghosts and you're a Christian,
0:17:41 > 0:17:43does that even make sense?
0:17:43 > 0:17:45You're not supposed to believe in ghosts.
0:17:45 > 0:17:48Yeah, you are. If you're a Christian,
0:17:48 > 0:17:50then how the fuck do you do exorcisms and shit?
0:17:50 > 0:17:53How the fuck do you do exorcisms and shit if you don't believe in it?
0:17:53 > 0:17:55We don't do exorcisms!
0:17:55 > 0:17:58Yeah, you do! You've got your fucking little stick
0:17:58 > 0:18:01- and the little...- That's Catholics. - That's same people.
0:18:01 > 0:18:02No, they're not.
0:18:05 > 0:18:06This is a shit lesson.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09Why is this time precious?
0:18:09 > 0:18:11Because it was for revision, innit.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14- Yeah, and what've we got tomorrow?- Exam, innit.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16Yeah. What have you done with most of that time today?
0:18:16 > 0:18:20- Spoke about religion, innit. - Are you being honest there?
0:18:20 > 0:18:24Yeah, like I was talking about like, Jesus and...
0:18:24 > 0:18:27What I'd like you to do is I'd like you to put whatever
0:18:27 > 0:18:29you're talking about, put it down on paper, OK?
0:18:29 > 0:18:31- All right.- OK.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34You can encourage them as much as you like, you can
0:18:34 > 0:18:37phone home, you can have chats with them.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39What are the three areas that we're studying?
0:18:39 > 0:18:43I could literally sit over him and spoon-feed him.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46There's a wasp and it's dead.
0:18:46 > 0:18:52He's in competition for my time with 22 other kids in the class
0:18:52 > 0:18:54and the 400 students I teach.
0:18:54 > 0:18:58So you've got six minutes left, have a go at that question.
0:18:58 > 0:19:02To be perfectly honest, he's not winning the competition.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07- You're a test tube baby. - I'm not a test tube baby.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10How do you know? How do you know if you're a test tube baby?
0:19:10 > 0:19:11I don't want to know.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14Do you ever just think, what is it they really need?
0:19:14 > 0:19:17- It's not just attention, is it? - It's love.
0:19:19 > 0:19:20They don't feel loved.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26It's not something I can provide them with.
0:19:26 > 0:19:30Abram, you can go, Philippe, you can go, Victoria can go,
0:19:30 > 0:19:32Zanaib can go, Serab can go.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35The rest of you can go. Quick, take a copy of that.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45The graphs that we were interpreting yesterday, we're
0:19:45 > 0:19:47going to be producing our own ones using...
0:19:47 > 0:19:51Over at Crown Woods, another long morning has come to an end.
0:19:51 > 0:19:52Did I leave that yesterday?
0:19:52 > 0:19:54Yeah, you did, you left it on my desk.
0:19:59 > 0:20:00SHE SOBS
0:20:05 > 0:20:07- I feel such a loser. - SHE CRIES
0:20:10 > 0:20:13I don't know what's wrong with me.
0:20:13 > 0:20:18I swear, I just had the worst lesson with my year 10s.
0:20:21 > 0:20:25Like their attitude as a group is just so poor,
0:20:25 > 0:20:28like you can't argue with like, 28 kids.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33"What's the point in this? I don't understand that?
0:20:33 > 0:20:35"Why's she doing this? She's rubbish."
0:20:35 > 0:20:40And then to go up and smile, why are we not motivated to work today?
0:20:40 > 0:20:43Outside in the hallway the students are also discussing
0:20:43 > 0:20:45- the class.- She can be a good teacher, to be fair.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47I don't think she knows how to assert herself, though.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49No, but if you want to be a teacher you should know
0:20:49 > 0:20:52how to control classes, she doesn't know how to at all.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54Just have them like laugh in your face like,
0:20:54 > 0:20:57I'm talking to a group of year-ten girls,
0:20:57 > 0:21:01what are they, 14/15, and I'm shaking like, what the hell?
0:21:01 > 0:21:06When she speaks out of turn using word such as Bredren
0:21:06 > 0:21:08- and from road. - It's like every night,
0:21:08 > 0:21:11it's like, oh, I don't want to go to school tomorrow and I'm like,
0:21:11 > 0:21:15I'm just not going, which is just stupid, you know.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17On road, yeah, your mate, yeah, on road,
0:21:17 > 0:21:23like you talk to your friends like that in school, which is wrong.
0:21:23 > 0:21:27I just feel like a mess, I've got so much to do now,
0:21:27 > 0:21:31I don't even have time for this, sorry.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36I'm just finding everything really hard to deal with.
0:21:43 > 0:21:47It's ten past, I don't mind letting you go slightly early,
0:21:47 > 0:21:51usual high-five, see you.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57Claudenia lives in South London with fellow Crown Woods trainee Oliver.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Tuck your shirt in.
0:21:59 > 0:22:03They have invited the other trainees over to help her make
0:22:03 > 0:22:04progress with the dreaded 10D3.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13I think about them at the start of school,
0:22:13 > 0:22:15I feel like I've made them behave like that for me.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17There will always be one of you
0:22:17 > 0:22:20and there will always be multiple of them and...
0:22:20 > 0:22:23Happened to me last year and I taught them basics
0:22:23 > 0:22:24and they ganged up on me.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26And I think if they gang up on you,
0:22:26 > 0:22:28you've got to bring in backup.
0:22:28 > 0:22:32Oh, they just turn into like a little mob, all like, so...
0:22:32 > 0:22:36They're horrific, they're horrible, they're all little thugs
0:22:36 > 0:22:40and they just kind of... I told off a kid for being late
0:22:40 > 0:22:44and he said, "Oh, Miss, it's so unfair" and they were all just like,
0:22:44 > 0:22:48"it's so unfair bah, bah", and I was like, whoa, oh, my God, and um...
0:22:48 > 0:22:51- What term was this? - Like, first term.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54- It's nothing as explicit as that. - No, but I think, it sounds to me
0:22:54 > 0:22:56like there's a lot of low-level disruption.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59Like you can't put your finger on it and that is the most infuriating
0:22:59 > 0:23:02thing as a teacher, because you can't...
0:23:02 > 0:23:05- I got them in that state. I've got them...- No, no, it's not your fault.
0:23:05 > 0:23:09They weren't like that, I could believe that if I went round the
0:23:09 > 0:23:13- school and they...- I'm being a bit untrue here, it's partly your fault.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16It is! I've got, I've got this little group of girls,
0:23:16 > 0:23:18"Oh, this doesn't happened in Miss Nichol's class."
0:23:18 > 0:23:22Girls are manipulative, they're cruel, like girls know exactly
0:23:22 > 0:23:25how to push your buttons, they know exactly what's going to hurt you.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27Just don't let them get to you.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30Oh, she's getting the text books out, and I'm just like, OK,
0:23:30 > 0:23:33guys, you're getting it and I'm just like, "ah, I hate you!"
0:23:33 > 0:23:36Now, they're hitting your soft spots, though.
0:23:36 > 0:23:40Any chance at leadership, these girls are ruining my lessons,
0:23:40 > 0:23:42they're rude to me, they're essentially bullying.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44And, this sounds really cringe,
0:23:44 > 0:23:47but remember you're just like, on a journey, like this is just your
0:23:47 > 0:23:50year and that class is just a part of that year and that you've worked
0:23:50 > 0:23:55super hard this year and, just, like enjoy that, do you know what I mean?
0:23:55 > 0:23:58Organise for Oliver to observe you, somebody non-threatening.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01I mean, I'll happily do that.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04Everyone goes through it, everybody goes through it.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06Team Cranwood!
0:24:06 > 0:24:08What's everyone, has anyone got any exciting plans
0:24:08 > 0:24:11for Easter? Are you going to India again?
0:24:17 > 0:24:20At Harefield, Nicholas has been swatting up on all things
0:24:20 > 0:24:25pubescent to answer the questions raised by year seven Life Skills.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28But despite the training he's had, Nick still has
0:24:28 > 0:24:31reservations about some of the syllabus.
0:24:31 > 0:24:35I'm a man and I have to teach female-sensitive
0:24:35 > 0:24:37issues to girls,
0:24:37 > 0:24:42which I believe fairly strongly should be done by a woman.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45I know the absolute basics of the menstruation cycle
0:24:45 > 0:24:48and it's a fairly traumatic thing for a girl to go
0:24:48 > 0:24:52through for the first time. I think it really should be a lady explaining
0:24:52 > 0:24:56it to them, who can give them first-hand experience and tips.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59- Football stuff!- Yeah.
0:24:59 > 0:25:03Consequently, he's recruited Meryl to teach the girls' stuff.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07It's quite cool that she has a free period during
0:25:07 > 0:25:12Life Skills and I thought I'd use the opportunity, seeing as she IS female,
0:25:12 > 0:25:15even though she'd leave us guessing...!
0:25:15 > 0:25:16THEY LAUGH
0:25:16 > 0:25:19..to have that like female aspect in
0:25:19 > 0:25:22Life Skills, especially doing puberty because it's really important.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24Her cause for concern in this lesson is she's not sure
0:25:24 > 0:25:26of some of the facts.
0:25:26 > 0:25:29Where is sperm produced? Easy. How long does puberty last?
0:25:29 > 0:25:31Easy. Where is the clitoris? I'll let you deal with it.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34Why do people have sex when they're bored?
0:25:34 > 0:25:39OK, this question - and why do people...masturbate
0:25:39 > 0:25:43when puberty starts are two like, slightly on the moral boundary.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46Nicholas and Meryl are both devout Catholics. For them,
0:25:46 > 0:25:48masturbation is a sin.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50Yeah, it's a bit of a difficult one,
0:25:50 > 0:25:54because we both think that it's wrong, but we can't teach that.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56So for why do people masturbate
0:25:56 > 0:26:00when puberty starts, I'd say your body's obviously going through
0:26:00 > 0:26:03some changes and you have feelings that you wouldn't have had before.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06I could even say I wouldn't encourage it or is that like...?
0:26:06 > 0:26:09No, I think that might be...
0:26:10 > 0:26:13Or, is that overstepping my mark as a neutral?
0:26:13 > 0:26:19Well, yeah, I would say my personal, you know,
0:26:19 > 0:26:22"wait till you're married" and, you know, all of that,
0:26:22 > 0:26:26but, you know, it's not necessarily what is right for all of these kids.
0:26:26 > 0:26:31What is the scientific definition of what a clit is?
0:26:31 > 0:26:33I can show you.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35You know like how we're so goofy
0:26:35 > 0:26:39- and silly together?- Yeah.- We need to be professional for the children.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51At Lanfranc's school, it's parents evening.
0:26:53 > 0:26:57Caleb and his mum Caroline have come to see Charles.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00Has his attitude or behaviour changed in your lessons?
0:27:00 > 0:27:02What do you think, Caleb?
0:27:02 > 0:27:05- No, I never liked you from the first day.- That's not appropriate.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08It's how I get along, why am I going to lie
0:27:08 > 0:27:10and say we get along? We don't get along!
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Yeah, but it's not about getting along, is it?
0:27:12 > 0:27:13I've told you it's about your education.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15What's not important is if we get along or not.
0:27:15 > 0:27:18Yeah, I know, I don't worry about that,
0:27:18 > 0:27:20I just want to do my work and get by.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22Yeah, what's important is for you to do well, isn't it?
0:27:22 > 0:27:25Why are you talking so aggressively like this, Caleb?
0:27:25 > 0:27:28- Look at me.- I'm sorry for embarrassing you, Mum.
0:27:28 > 0:27:33- Now that's enough.- How do you think we could improve?
0:27:34 > 0:27:40Well, first of all, you put me on the short course for RE
0:27:40 > 0:27:43and then gave me the full course in the exam,
0:27:43 > 0:27:46so I don't know how I'm supposed to do that exam.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49So the short course is unit one, the long,
0:27:49 > 0:27:52the full course is unit one and unit two, there isn't anything that
0:27:52 > 0:27:54you're being taught at the moment that is useless.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56OK, there's a solution to every problem, you don't
0:27:56 > 0:27:59have to be so aggressive when expressing yourself.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02That's all I'm saying. All this hitting papers on the table
0:28:02 > 0:28:05and all of that, clapping your hands. Just talk
0:28:05 > 0:28:11and be able to communicate in a better fashion. OK?
0:28:12 > 0:28:13'It was all a bit bizarre.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16'It's just the weirdest meeting I've ever had.'
0:28:16 > 0:28:20It was kind of difficult to say, "oh, yeah, he will do all the work,
0:28:20 > 0:28:24"if he's not using the time in the class, which is
0:28:24 > 0:28:27"the most important time, to its full potential".
0:28:43 > 0:28:47At Crown Woods, Oliver is going to observe Claudenia with 10D3.
0:28:52 > 0:28:55So, what are you teaching and what would you like my focus to be?
0:28:55 > 0:28:57I don't want you to have too much of a focus
0:28:57 > 0:29:01because you might see things that I don't see, that's the idea.
0:29:01 > 0:29:04Sure. And also...
0:29:04 > 0:29:06I don't want you to be working until...
0:29:06 > 0:29:08I don't want you waking up at 4:30
0:29:08 > 0:29:10tomorrow morning. You don't deliver milk!
0:29:10 > 0:29:12SHE LAUGHS
0:29:12 > 0:29:14You're not a paperboy.
0:29:14 > 0:29:17Last week you were ill from fatigue.
0:29:17 > 0:29:24Let's focus on maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
0:29:24 > 0:29:26All right, Dad.
0:29:27 > 0:29:30Inside, please.
0:29:30 > 0:29:33Reports on my desk, please. OK.
0:29:33 > 0:29:37Good afternoon year tens, you may be seated. Today, thank you.
0:29:37 > 0:29:40Claudenia has also requested the presence of Lizi,
0:29:40 > 0:29:42the school's head of learning.
0:29:42 > 0:29:44With this many adults in the room,
0:29:44 > 0:29:46discipline should not be a problem,
0:29:46 > 0:29:48giving Claudenia the space to shine.
0:29:48 > 0:29:52Generally speaking, when I add an acid to an alkali,
0:29:52 > 0:29:55anything on this side of my spectrum, to anything on that side,
0:29:55 > 0:30:00it's going to neutralise to give me a pH of seven.
0:30:00 > 0:30:03So you're going to find the pH of these two things.
0:30:03 > 0:30:06They are soluble, so we can dissolve it in our water.
0:30:06 > 0:30:10Right, so what's that? Is that just five... 5cm cubed?
0:30:10 > 0:30:14It soon becomes clear that many of the pupils are confused.
0:30:14 > 0:30:16Oh, my God...
0:30:16 > 0:30:18So, on a scale of one to ten,
0:30:18 > 0:30:22where would you rate yourself in understanding what you're doing?
0:30:22 > 0:30:25- About a seven.- So there is still an element of confusion as to what you are doing?- Yeah.
0:30:25 > 0:30:29- Wow, is that it? It looks tiny.- That's tiny.
0:30:33 > 0:30:35That is over the limit.
0:30:37 > 0:30:40No, you idiot, look. This is a centimetre SQUARED.
0:30:40 > 0:30:42Go and get a cylinder.
0:30:42 > 0:30:45Oh, my God!
0:30:45 > 0:30:48Girls, have you actually worked out what you're doing there?
0:30:48 > 0:30:50We just figured out how to put powder into the tube!
0:30:50 > 0:30:52I was like, "are you sure?", you were like, "yeah"!
0:30:52 > 0:30:55What did you write in your book as your learning objective?
0:30:59 > 0:31:02It starts from the initial point of the lesson.
0:31:02 > 0:31:05They need to know where they are going. In order to monitor it.
0:31:05 > 0:31:08Well done. Well done today.
0:31:08 > 0:31:09Brilliant.
0:31:09 > 0:31:13- Yeah.- Have I given you a sheet?- Yeah. - OK.
0:31:14 > 0:31:18- I spoke to a few kids. I asked them what their learning objective was.- Yeah.
0:31:18 > 0:31:20They didn't know what their learning objective was.
0:31:20 > 0:31:24"Recall the characteristic properties of alkaline hydroxides and carbonates."
0:31:24 > 0:31:28It doesn't matter they don't know what their learning objectives are, I know, looking at them working.
0:31:28 > 0:31:29Yeah, massively.
0:31:29 > 0:31:33Elena and the two girls next to her, Lizi said, "Why are you
0:31:33 > 0:31:36"putting the powder into the tube?" or, "Do you know why you're putting
0:31:36 > 0:31:39"the powder into the tube" and the girls replied,
0:31:39 > 0:31:40"We're just shoving it in."
0:31:40 > 0:31:43- Yeah.- They didn't know what they were doing.
0:31:46 > 0:31:47Now, it is Lizi's turn.
0:31:47 > 0:31:50- I think it went really well.- OK.
0:31:50 > 0:31:53After Oliver's feedback, maybe not so well.
0:31:53 > 0:31:56I was a tad disappointed with the lesson, if I'm going to be honest.
0:31:56 > 0:31:59And there are three things that make a good lesson.
0:31:59 > 0:32:03What are they learning today? How they can achieve that learning
0:32:03 > 0:32:04and how are you assessing that learning?
0:32:04 > 0:32:07And in the lesson, they didn't really know what they were learning
0:32:07 > 0:32:10and at the end of the lesson, there was very little evidence
0:32:10 > 0:32:12to prove that they had met the learning objective.
0:32:12 > 0:32:14If they were to explain it in one sentence,
0:32:14 > 0:32:19- what would they say the learning objective was?- I don't know. - Exactly. Neither do they.
0:32:19 > 0:32:22They were all doing the same task, none of them had assigned roles.
0:32:22 > 0:32:25Part of their disengagement is that they don't know how well they are doing.
0:32:25 > 0:32:28We are very obviously exam-orientated in the school
0:32:28 > 0:32:32and the kids are very pumped up, with "I want to know where I'm going," maybe to the point
0:32:32 > 0:32:35where they can be a bit obnoxious because they want to know whether "I'm an A, B, or C".
0:32:35 > 0:32:38They need to know what level their skill has achieved,
0:32:38 > 0:32:40even if it is just, you know,
0:32:40 > 0:32:43at the moment the skills that you have done equate to a grade A.
0:32:43 > 0:32:46- Thank you for your time, both of you.- Right.- Much appreciated.
0:32:46 > 0:32:47That's all right, my love.
0:32:52 > 0:32:55OK, year seven. In you come.
0:32:57 > 0:33:01At Harefield, Nicholas and Meryl are tackling the next stage of puberty.
0:33:02 > 0:33:06Make a bit more of a single line coming in, please.
0:33:06 > 0:33:09First question, how do you know when you are horny?
0:33:09 > 0:33:12Stand behind your chairs, planners out, there should be no talking.
0:33:13 > 0:33:16OK. "Horny" is not a technical word.
0:33:16 > 0:33:20- The technical word would be sexually excited, probably.- Sexually aroused.
0:33:20 > 0:33:24Sexually aroused, OK. Being sexually aroused is about having that desire
0:33:24 > 0:33:27for the pleasure that you get when you have sex.
0:33:27 > 0:33:30It is not necessarily linked to love or wanting to make a baby.
0:33:30 > 0:33:33OK, why do people masturbate when puberty starts?
0:33:33 > 0:33:36Linked to this, it is because they get these desires
0:33:36 > 0:33:40for sexual feelings and then they masturbate.
0:33:40 > 0:33:42And it is open to debate as to whether this is a good thing.
0:33:42 > 0:33:44It's like, you love sweets.
0:33:44 > 0:33:47Is it right to always eat sweets when you want them?
0:33:47 > 0:33:50Well, not always, because the risk of masturbating
0:33:50 > 0:33:54whenever you feel sexually aroused is that you start linking
0:33:54 > 0:33:56that feeling just to pleasure.
0:33:56 > 0:34:00Next one - do your pubes go grey as you get older?
0:34:00 > 0:34:03I have never seen grey pubes. They may exist.
0:34:03 > 0:34:08But my point is, I have seen people with grey chest hair on the beach.
0:34:08 > 0:34:12And I'm thinking if their body hair on their chests can go grey,
0:34:12 > 0:34:15their pubic hair may well turn grey as well.
0:34:15 > 0:34:16Yes?
0:34:18 > 0:34:20For the second part of the lesson,
0:34:20 > 0:34:23the class is separated into boys and girls.
0:34:23 > 0:34:25You'll be dealing with the same topic, but with Sir.
0:34:25 > 0:34:28It will be like a dudes' lesson.
0:34:28 > 0:34:31Nicholas is offering manly guidance.
0:34:31 > 0:34:34- Very good. Pornography. - It is like, videos...
0:34:34 > 0:34:37- Videos, it can be in the form of videos.- Naked pictures.
0:34:37 > 0:34:41- Naked pictures. OK. It can be. Yeah. - It can be like sexual magazines.
0:34:41 > 0:34:43Very good, sexual magazines.
0:34:43 > 0:34:46Meryl takes the girls to give them some helpful tips.
0:34:46 > 0:34:51In this column, I want you to write what you know about periods.
0:34:51 > 0:34:53Your imagination is so powerful, you know?
0:34:53 > 0:34:57You can create anything in your mind, you can make yourself be doing it in your mind.
0:34:57 > 0:35:00So what do you know about your periods?
0:35:00 > 0:35:05And it's so powerful, and you can't necessarily control these things.
0:35:05 > 0:35:08Why do you watch it? Because you, like, want to masturbate?
0:35:08 > 0:35:10It usually takes you that way.
0:35:10 > 0:35:12So when you get these sexual desires,
0:35:12 > 0:35:17one way to relieve them, or get rid of them, is to masturbate, OK?
0:35:18 > 0:35:20And as to whether that's a good thing,
0:35:20 > 0:35:22that's a question you've got to ask yourselves.
0:35:26 > 0:35:29Chloe is at home, getting ready for a night out.
0:35:29 > 0:35:31Erm, so tonight we are going to Charles's house,
0:35:31 > 0:35:34for our humanities dinner.
0:35:34 > 0:35:38'I think it's good, it sort of brings the department closer.'
0:35:38 > 0:35:42'I can't wait to see the estate, the Wallendahl estate, I'm calling it.'
0:35:42 > 0:35:4411, 12, 13, 14, 15.
0:35:44 > 0:35:47..when he was choosing which dining room we're going to be in.
0:35:47 > 0:35:50So I'm quite looking forward to seeing the others!
0:35:51 > 0:35:55Charles lives with his mum and dad in south-west London.
0:35:55 > 0:35:56My dad.
0:35:56 > 0:35:59- Berent Wallendahl.- Nice to meet you. - Nice meeting you.
0:35:59 > 0:36:03And they've agreed to let him host his dinner party while they go out.
0:36:03 > 0:36:06- Have a good evening, everybody. - Thank you.- Take care.
0:36:06 > 0:36:09But Charles is not doing the cooking.
0:36:10 > 0:36:13They're having about sort of eight or nine courses by the end of it,
0:36:13 > 0:36:18a couple of canapes to start off with, little chicken-skin crisps.
0:36:18 > 0:36:21Little parsnip crisps as well, with burnt-spinach puree
0:36:21 > 0:36:23and onion jam, just for the veggies.
0:36:23 > 0:36:26And sea beets, cooked down in an emulsion with vinegar.
0:36:26 > 0:36:28Trout rillettes.
0:36:28 > 0:36:32A terrine of smoked eel and seaweed with an onion dashi.
0:36:32 > 0:36:36Sea bass with an apple ravioli, where the apple IS the pasta.
0:36:38 > 0:36:39Slow-cooked 24-hour beef
0:36:39 > 0:36:42with broccoli couscous with no couscous,
0:36:42 > 0:36:45and then finishing it all off with a milk jelly.
0:36:45 > 0:36:48- Hello.- How are you? - Good to see you.- Nice to see you!
0:36:48 > 0:36:50- Hello.- Hello.
0:36:50 > 0:36:52Nice to see you.
0:36:52 > 0:36:54Everyone else is here. Don't worry.
0:36:54 > 0:36:58- We're all just chilling out, having a drink.- By the way, nice wine.
0:36:58 > 0:37:01- Is that you?- Yeah. - Oh, that's so cute. Look!
0:37:11 > 0:37:12Basically everyone's dreading it.
0:37:12 > 0:37:15- Yeah.- We're all just going to get really drunk to get through it.
0:37:15 > 0:37:16Don't get too drunk.
0:37:22 > 0:37:25The parsnip crisps and eel terrine are going down a storm.
0:37:31 > 0:37:35Erm, if we could make our way through to the dining room, please...
0:37:35 > 0:37:38LAUGHTER ..that would be great.
0:37:38 > 0:37:40Are we rotating? I'll start now.
0:37:40 > 0:37:43THEY ALL TALK AT ONCE
0:37:49 > 0:37:51- White wine, anybody?- Yeah.
0:37:51 > 0:37:54Nice pad. Nice pad!
0:37:54 > 0:37:57'If my house was like this, my parents' house was like this,
0:37:57 > 0:37:59'I wouldn't go anywhere. I'd live there for ever!'
0:37:59 > 0:38:02I'd take it over from them when they died!
0:38:05 > 0:38:08Chloe's found the family silver.
0:38:10 > 0:38:14Oh, this one says, like, NW. What's his dad called?
0:38:14 > 0:38:16Shall we go round the house and see what we can find
0:38:16 > 0:38:18with Charles's name on it?!
0:38:18 > 0:38:19Like a game!
0:38:21 > 0:38:22- Yeah?- Go upstairs!
0:38:22 > 0:38:24SHE LAUGHS
0:38:27 > 0:38:29- I don't trust my food with them. - Somebody's stealing your food?
0:38:29 > 0:38:33'When you live in a society that's so concerned about budget
0:38:33 > 0:38:36'and about how much money you're spending,'
0:38:36 > 0:38:40actually staff don't really get an opportunity to....
0:38:44 > 0:38:48..genuinely enjoy themselves and, like, have a good night out,
0:38:48 > 0:38:50in the same way that happens in the private sector,
0:38:50 > 0:38:53cos it's just like, oh, that's a waste of money.
0:38:53 > 0:38:56'But the reality is, like, we're paying for it tonight
0:38:56 > 0:38:58'and it's not a waste of money
0:38:58 > 0:39:01'because we're enjoying each other's company and we're
0:39:01 > 0:39:03'getting to know each other and we're having fun,'
0:39:03 > 0:39:07and, like, it's a crucial element of any part of work, that you have that,
0:39:07 > 0:39:09and if you don't have it,
0:39:09 > 0:39:11you're not going to work as efficiently and effectively.
0:39:11 > 0:39:14It's an integral part of any institution.
0:39:14 > 0:39:17THEY ALL TALK AT ONCE
0:39:29 > 0:39:30There she is.
0:39:39 > 0:39:42Today Meryl has her final observation.
0:39:42 > 0:39:46It's her last chance to be taken off "cause for concern".
0:39:46 > 0:39:49If I'm still on "cause for concern" at the end of the year, I don't pass.
0:39:49 > 0:39:51I don't get qualified teacher status,
0:39:51 > 0:39:54I don't come back to school next year, erm,
0:39:54 > 0:39:57I essentially probably get kicked off Teach First.
0:39:57 > 0:40:00- Really?- Yeah. So that's it.
0:40:00 > 0:40:05'I feel she's had such a tough time and she's developed a hell of a lot.'
0:40:05 > 0:40:09And it just seems like her work just hasn't been appreciated,
0:40:09 > 0:40:13you know, neither by the students or by the school in many ways.
0:40:13 > 0:40:16'And I really just hope that she finishes
0:40:16 > 0:40:18'and is able to feel really good about herself,'
0:40:18 > 0:40:22because she deserves to end the year feeling amazing.
0:40:22 > 0:40:25You're going to pass, Meryl. Of course you're going to pass.
0:40:25 > 0:40:28- Well, you know, I think I can. - Just keep ticking boxes, OK?- Yeah.
0:40:28 > 0:40:30This term is going to be the tick-box term.
0:40:30 > 0:40:34- I think I have what it takes, but... - We're going to call it the TTT.
0:40:34 > 0:40:38- No, sorry. TBT.- Tick BOX. - I'm a maths teacher, OK? It's fine.
0:40:46 > 0:40:48When you walk into a locked door...
0:40:48 > 0:40:50'I might actually throw up.'
0:40:50 > 0:40:53You know when you haven't had any sleep
0:40:53 > 0:40:55and then you try and eat something.
0:40:56 > 0:40:59And then you think, oh, actually... I've thrown up once at school.
0:40:59 > 0:41:00Isn't that terrible?
0:41:00 > 0:41:03It was the first day back after Christmas
0:41:03 > 0:41:06and I was like, "Oh, I left something in my car,
0:41:06 > 0:41:09"I'll just go to quickly get something from my car at lunch."
0:41:09 > 0:41:13I was walking and I was like, "I'm going to be sick." I just threw up.
0:41:13 > 0:41:15I thought, where did that come from?
0:41:15 > 0:41:19Just a random...bleuurgh.
0:41:24 > 0:41:28'The observation that's taking place today is, er, very important.'
0:41:28 > 0:41:31If she's not improved since the last time we did the review, erm,
0:41:31 > 0:41:33then that's very serious.
0:41:33 > 0:41:35You guys are so leisurely.
0:41:35 > 0:41:37It's as though 104 doesn't exist.
0:41:38 > 0:41:41The people from Teach First are coming in to see
0:41:41 > 0:41:45whether Meryl's going to be taken off cause for "concern".
0:41:45 > 0:41:48We're looking to see whether the progress
0:41:48 > 0:41:51and the indicators suggest that she's getting on top of
0:41:51 > 0:41:54many of the areas against the teaching standards.
0:41:56 > 0:41:57Aaron, shut up.
0:41:57 > 0:41:59Charlie.
0:41:59 > 0:42:01- Let's just start again, properly. - Aaron's annoying me!
0:42:01 > 0:42:03Go and sit down, please.
0:42:03 > 0:42:07- Hi, madam, how are you? - Good, how are you?- Fine, thank you.
0:42:07 > 0:42:10Meryl is under extra scrutiny, with Teach First,
0:42:10 > 0:42:14a university tutor and Gavin all assessing her performance.
0:42:14 > 0:42:16OK, everybody got that order down?
0:42:16 > 0:42:18The lesson takes place in private.
0:42:28 > 0:42:31Caleb, I need you to stay at the front.
0:42:31 > 0:42:34- Why?- Because you weren't here yesterday and I need to help you.
0:42:34 > 0:42:38At Lanfranc, Caleb's behaviour in his GCSE RE lesson
0:42:38 > 0:42:43still hasn't improved. Today they're going through a mock exam paper.
0:42:43 > 0:42:45Caleb, can you please sit at the front.
0:42:47 > 0:42:50You either sit at the front or you leave the classroom.
0:42:50 > 0:42:54You can choose. Leave the classroom or sit at the front.
0:42:54 > 0:42:56- Sir, you're stepping on my foot. - Sorry.
0:42:57 > 0:43:00Abigail got an A.
0:43:00 > 0:43:05Caleb got an E, but seems intent on marking himself down even further.
0:43:05 > 0:43:09How... How did I get one, yeah, out of four for that?
0:43:09 > 0:43:10This is the question. It says,
0:43:10 > 0:43:12"Explain how having a religious faith
0:43:12 > 0:43:15"might encourage someone to get married for life," yeah?
0:43:15 > 0:43:17We're not doing that question...
0:43:17 > 0:43:21My answer is, yeah, "Because marriage is what God wants."
0:43:21 > 0:43:23- And I got one.- Yeah. Good.
0:43:23 > 0:43:25- You got one mark for that.- How? - LAUGHTER
0:43:25 > 0:43:28Right, Caleb, you're not in trouble.
0:43:28 > 0:43:32Can you step outside the classroom and we'll have a conversation.
0:43:35 > 0:43:37OK, fam.
0:43:37 > 0:43:40- How does this make you feel?- Yeah. - How does it make you feel?
0:43:42 > 0:43:46- Thumbs down, innit.- Sorry? - Thumbs down.- Not good?
0:43:46 > 0:43:48How are we going to do this?
0:43:48 > 0:43:52I don't know when I'm never going to use this information in my life.
0:43:54 > 0:43:56I don't see how it's valuable to me.
0:43:56 > 0:43:58- You don't see how it's valuable to you?- I don't really need it.
0:43:58 > 0:44:02- Do you see how your other school subjects are valuable to you?- Huh?
0:44:02 > 0:44:06- Do you see how other subjects in school are valuable to you?- Yeah.
0:44:06 > 0:44:09- Such as?- English. Obviously you need your vocabulary,
0:44:09 > 0:44:11you need to be able to articulate yourself properly,
0:44:11 > 0:44:14- so when you go to job interviews... - OK.- I don't need this,
0:44:14 > 0:44:16I ain't going to be telling my boss about no Jesus or no Muslim.
0:44:16 > 0:44:20But, do you know what, erm, let me go in and study,
0:44:20 > 0:44:23- I'll keep my head down. - OK, I'd like you to move.
0:44:23 > 0:44:27- I'd like to sit next to Hamza at the back, please.- Chinese man?
0:44:27 > 0:44:30- He's going to... All right, cool, all right.- OK.
0:44:30 > 0:44:32Take a seat at the back.
0:44:35 > 0:44:38- Imran Khan didn't win the lottery. - Did I say he won the lottery?
0:44:38 > 0:44:42- I said he gave money! - What was the question?- Oh, whatever!
0:44:42 > 0:44:45Your homework is to complete the paper
0:44:45 > 0:44:48and rewrite all the questions you didn't get full marks on.
0:44:48 > 0:44:50I don't know what's changed. The reason I got them wrong
0:44:50 > 0:44:53is because I didn't know it, so what am I supposed to do?
0:44:56 > 0:44:59Bit less. Ten minutes left.
0:45:02 > 0:45:03Please. Thank you.
0:45:03 > 0:45:08Girls, off you go. Nicholas, thank you very much. James, off you go.
0:45:08 > 0:45:10Charlie, just wait one moment.
0:45:10 > 0:45:13Meryl's observation is over, and she is flat out.
0:45:13 > 0:45:15I can't believe this day is over, finally.
0:45:15 > 0:45:17It's been the longest week...
0:45:17 > 0:45:24And I've got another day tomorrow, but...meetings, observations.
0:45:24 > 0:45:27I've got a meeting now, at some point,
0:45:27 > 0:45:31but it's just so nice to finally...
0:45:31 > 0:45:33see the light at the end of the tunnel
0:45:33 > 0:45:36and have that light be the summer sun.
0:45:41 > 0:45:43Vicki, Rachel and Gavin have returned
0:45:43 > 0:45:46to give Meryl their decisive feedback.
0:45:46 > 0:45:49The meeting takes place behind closed doors.
0:45:57 > 0:46:00At Crown Woods, two 10D3 girls have detentions
0:46:00 > 0:46:02for being lippy to Claudenia.
0:46:03 > 0:46:07Just because she thought we were showing her attitude and being rude.
0:46:11 > 0:46:13No. Not really.
0:46:15 > 0:46:20- Just going to apologise. - I'm just going to say sorry.- Yeah.
0:46:20 > 0:46:23Erm, for coming across...rude, being rude.
0:46:23 > 0:46:28And say that I wasn't...being rude, basically.
0:46:30 > 0:46:33This time Claudenia has brought in backup
0:46:33 > 0:46:37in the form of 103D's favourite teacher, Miss Nicholls.
0:46:37 > 0:46:39When you get into the world, yeah,
0:46:39 > 0:46:42and you've got to work with all different types of people
0:46:42 > 0:46:46and you've got an employer, you might not get on with everyone.
0:46:46 > 0:46:50But how you treat them... is something that you need to learn
0:46:50 > 0:46:53- at school. You know what I mean?- Mm-hm.
0:46:53 > 0:46:55What happened yesterday?
0:46:55 > 0:46:59I just don't find that I was being...that rude.
0:46:59 > 0:47:02- Oh, you don't think you were being that rude?- Mm-hm.
0:47:02 > 0:47:05But there must have been something...that has,
0:47:05 > 0:47:08you know, caused us to be here now.
0:47:08 > 0:47:10Almost every lesson I have comments from you.
0:47:10 > 0:47:14Even if I don't mention it, I do hear them. They're so inappropriate.
0:47:14 > 0:47:17You would never like anyone to speak to you
0:47:17 > 0:47:19the way that you speak to me, or about me.
0:47:19 > 0:47:21Even when you think I can't hear.
0:47:21 > 0:47:23I don't...mean it.
0:47:23 > 0:47:25Layla, what do you think?
0:47:25 > 0:47:27Yeah...
0:47:27 > 0:47:31I don't think I was that, like, rude yesterday.
0:47:31 > 0:47:36I can't accept, especially from an A student... You got two As in January.
0:47:36 > 0:47:40- For you to say, "I'm going to wait till the exam to learn it."- Yeah.
0:47:40 > 0:47:44To make a comment like that to a teacher, in a lesson,
0:47:44 > 0:47:46is pretty insulting.
0:47:46 > 0:47:47You know?
0:47:47 > 0:47:50- I wouldn't be doing my job if I allowed you to think that's OK.- Mm.
0:47:50 > 0:47:52That's an OK attitude.
0:47:52 > 0:47:56- OK, thank you, girls, for coming. - Thank you. Don't, you know...
0:47:56 > 0:47:58We just want the best for you.
0:48:01 > 0:48:05Meryl's meeting with Teach First and Gavin is finally over.
0:48:09 > 0:48:13- Hi.- You all right? - Erm, just had a meeting.- Yeah?
0:48:13 > 0:48:16- Vicki Browne came in... - I know, I saw, they were all in.
0:48:16 > 0:48:18- Yeah, Rachel was in...- And?
0:48:20 > 0:48:22- What's up?- It went well.- Oh, good.
0:48:22 > 0:48:25- And they're taking me off "cause for concern". Yay!- Oh, yes!
0:48:25 > 0:48:28That is such good news. You had me so worried. High-five!
0:48:28 > 0:48:31- Ooh, yeah.- You actually had me seriously worried there.
0:48:31 > 0:48:33You know, I can't do a psych-out for long...
0:48:33 > 0:48:36Oh, my word, you're off "cause for concern". This is epic!
0:48:36 > 0:48:39I'm so happy. That has made my day. That's so good. Well done.
0:48:39 > 0:48:43You deserve it, big-time. Had you been doing the work...
0:48:43 > 0:48:44'I can't believe it, really.
0:48:44 > 0:48:46'I really did think at the start of today,'
0:48:46 > 0:48:48I'm actually going to fail this year.
0:48:48 > 0:48:50And if I do I'll never even be able to apply for a PGCE,
0:48:50 > 0:48:53so that would just be it for teaching.
0:48:55 > 0:48:58Hopefully, hopefully, I can be a good teacher.
0:49:01 > 0:49:03At Lanfranc, Caleb's behaviour
0:49:03 > 0:49:06both in and out of the classroom has reached crisis point.
0:49:06 > 0:49:10- Hello, there, hi.- Hi. - I'm sorry to keep you...
0:49:10 > 0:49:12Despite being on a final warning,
0:49:12 > 0:49:16he's got involved in a serious fight with another pupil outside school.
0:49:16 > 0:49:19- Come on in, have a seat over there.- Thanks.
0:49:19 > 0:49:21I suppose first thing, really, how is he?
0:49:21 > 0:49:24He, erm, broke his nose and his eye socket,
0:49:24 > 0:49:26and they had to operate on his eye.
0:49:26 > 0:49:30So he was in hospital overnight, very black and blue and purple,
0:49:30 > 0:49:31but he's on the mend.
0:49:31 > 0:49:35There was potential in that incident for two lost lives.
0:49:35 > 0:49:36Yeah, exactly.
0:49:36 > 0:49:39One, because Caleb might not have got up
0:49:39 > 0:49:43and walked away from it at all, and the other one would have ended up...
0:49:43 > 0:49:46- Yeah, in jail. - ..in prison for a very long time.
0:49:46 > 0:49:49Unusually for us, we've got to kind of concede defeat over this
0:49:49 > 0:49:54and say to the people at the PRU that they really need to pick
0:49:54 > 0:49:57- Caleb up from here and work out what happens next.- OK.
0:49:57 > 0:50:00- All right, then. Thank you very much, Mr Clarke.- No, thank you,
0:50:00 > 0:50:04and I'm sorry it didn't come to a better conclusion, really.
0:50:04 > 0:50:06Well, at the end of the day, he's got his life
0:50:06 > 0:50:08- and he's got his eyesight, so... - Mm.
0:50:08 > 0:50:12- Yeah, well, we hoped he'd have a bit more than that.- Yeah, exactly!
0:50:12 > 0:50:13I know what you mean.
0:50:20 > 0:50:24- Hello, Charles.- Hiya.- I just thought that you would like to know,
0:50:24 > 0:50:26as you've had a personal interest in Caleb,
0:50:26 > 0:50:29that, in everyone's interests, really, he needs to...
0:50:29 > 0:50:32- return to the pupil referral unit.- Yeah.
0:50:32 > 0:50:34That is sad, because, erm...
0:50:34 > 0:50:36Well, we wanted it to work out, so...
0:50:36 > 0:50:38Because we wanted it to work out, yeah.
0:50:38 > 0:50:43Not satisfactory all round, but...had to be done, so...anyway.
0:50:43 > 0:50:46- OK. Thanks for letting me know. - No problem.
0:50:46 > 0:50:48The school have reached their limit, and a few months
0:50:48 > 0:50:52short of his exams, Caleb and a fellow pupil have been excluded.
0:50:53 > 0:50:55Caleb will return to a pupil referral unit
0:50:55 > 0:50:59after managing just nine months in mainstream school.
0:50:59 > 0:51:01I remember in September, Caleb, when you were all, like,
0:51:01 > 0:51:05"Oh, this is amazing, this is my big chance. I'm going to really..."
0:51:05 > 0:51:13Yeah, it was, it was, until I saw how far the other children had gone
0:51:13 > 0:51:16to me, like, how much more learning they had than me,
0:51:16 > 0:51:19how much smarter they was than me.
0:51:19 > 0:51:21And then I was just, like, "That's dead".
0:51:21 > 0:51:23- HE LAUGHS - "That's dead!"
0:51:23 > 0:51:27Like, them who are smart and doing maths
0:51:27 > 0:51:31and shouting out stuff that I don't even understand.
0:51:31 > 0:51:33Well, if everyone else is smart and I'm not,
0:51:33 > 0:51:34why would that make me happy?
0:51:36 > 0:51:39It would just get me mad to see other people doing better than me.
0:51:40 > 0:51:42So you're going back to the centre. How's that?
0:51:42 > 0:51:45I don't mind. This is just life.
0:51:46 > 0:51:49I can't wait till I get my own house, my own car.
0:51:49 > 0:51:51That's a bit far away.
0:51:51 > 0:51:53You haven't even got your National Insurance number yet.
0:51:53 > 0:51:56Let's look at jobs first. Let's start there.
0:52:00 > 0:52:02Is that a song?
0:52:02 > 0:52:03Cos it's not reality.
0:52:05 > 0:52:06OK, hard man.
0:52:06 > 0:52:08HE LAUGHS
0:52:10 > 0:52:12He wasn't really in my class very much.
0:52:13 > 0:52:15Like, I would, like...
0:52:17 > 0:52:20..care more if he'd cared, if that makes sense.
0:52:20 > 0:52:24Like, but he was never like that. He said it himself. He never liked me.
0:52:24 > 0:52:27And I could never really have, like, a genuine apology from him
0:52:27 > 0:52:31for whenever he did something that was, like, out of order.
0:52:32 > 0:52:34He liked the centre more than here.
0:52:34 > 0:52:37Whether he was doing it consciously or subconsciously,
0:52:37 > 0:52:40he took actions which meant that he did end up back in the PRU...
0:52:40 > 0:52:42..as he wanted.
0:52:46 > 0:52:49OK, so, today we are learning about pregnancy
0:52:49 > 0:52:52and what happens in the stages of pregnancy.
0:52:56 > 0:52:59All right, it's excellent. Well done.
0:53:02 > 0:53:05Good, Troy is making a start.
0:53:05 > 0:53:08Apart from he's got the section about Hurricane Katrina open
0:53:08 > 0:53:09when we're doing coasts.
0:53:15 > 0:53:19Can we have a round of applause, please, for Hamza, Joel and Geoffrey?
0:53:21 > 0:53:23Thank you very much. Could you please return to your seats?
0:53:28 > 0:53:31Year 10s, can you check your six-markers before you go?
0:53:31 > 0:53:33Leave them open for me to see.
0:53:34 > 0:53:37So, show me your six-markers before you go.
0:53:39 > 0:53:43At Crown Woods, Claudenia has just finished with 10D3
0:53:43 > 0:53:45and is having forty winks at her desk.
0:53:46 > 0:53:49Because I'm so tired, I can't do any work.
0:53:49 > 0:53:52And I'm here running on one hour 20 minutes' sleep.
0:53:52 > 0:53:55Like, genuine question - am I a cause for concern?
0:53:56 > 0:53:58Is that...? Or am I just tired?
0:53:58 > 0:54:00SHE LAUGHS
0:54:02 > 0:54:04Because really and truly, by now this is the end of...
0:54:04 > 0:54:07It's supposed to be a whole year of development and training.
0:54:07 > 0:54:09I don't feel...
0:54:09 > 0:54:11developed, trained.
0:54:12 > 0:54:16I feel tired and exhausted.
0:54:16 > 0:54:19With not much hope! SHE LAUGHS
0:54:19 > 0:54:21I don't even know what that means!
0:54:22 > 0:54:25But leaving does seem like a very viable option.
0:54:25 > 0:54:28I don't know if it's leaving the school, leaving teaching,
0:54:28 > 0:54:29whether it's leaving...
0:54:29 > 0:54:31the country! Who knows, man?
0:54:31 > 0:54:34Maybe I just need to go to Jamaica and chill for a bit.
0:54:35 > 0:54:37I finished about half an hour ago,
0:54:37 > 0:54:40and I'm just waiting for Claudenia to pack up.
0:54:40 > 0:54:45Claudenia's a fighter. She won't give up.
0:54:45 > 0:54:47And I won't let her.
0:54:47 > 0:54:50Cos that's what teamwork, friendship, love and passion
0:54:50 > 0:54:52is all about.
0:54:52 > 0:54:54And cliches!
0:54:56 > 0:54:58I fell asleep in class today!
0:55:00 > 0:55:02That's like a good behaviour strategy.
0:55:02 > 0:55:04"I'm sorry, these answers are not good enough."
0:55:04 > 0:55:06That's what they thought.
0:55:06 > 0:55:10And they started talking, and, like, I don't remember what happened.
0:55:10 > 0:55:14It's, like, "Miss has fallen asleep!" I'm, like, "Ohhh...!"
0:55:14 > 0:55:16It was, like, "You was THAT boring!" I was just, like...
0:55:16 > 0:55:17Right.
0:55:27 > 0:55:29Next week, it's the summer term.
0:55:29 > 0:55:31Year 10s, can I have your attention, please?
0:55:31 > 0:55:35Claudenia continues to battle with her Year 10s.
0:55:35 > 0:55:37Yeah? And you've got to visualise it.
0:55:37 > 0:55:39Is there a reason why you're talking?
0:55:42 > 0:55:44It's results day.
0:55:44 > 0:55:47Feeling a bit nervous, innit? But obviously, what comes up, comes up.
0:55:47 > 0:55:49I hope I done the best.
0:55:49 > 0:55:51And one trainee drops a bombshell.
0:55:51 > 0:55:53Pretty shocked and horrified, I have to say.
0:55:53 > 0:55:55We're left in the lurch.