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Bad Education: I'm not leaving Mitchell behind
Charlie Wernham
Actor
'I’ll always be as rude and immature as Mitchell' Playing the class clown for the last time in the third series of Jack Whitehall's classroom comedy.
Waterloo Road: I'm the new deputy head
Richard Mylan
Actor
Teaching can be very much like drama – enacting a role on stage, like a one-man play - actor Richard Mylan on his new role in the BBC One drama.
Excluded: How we made the BBC School Season drama
Misha Manson-Smith
I'm the director of Excluded, a one-off drama and part of BBC Two's School Season. It's set in the fictional The Lamont School, a struggling comprehensive in north London. Spanning the first few weeks of a new school year, the drama charts the intersecting stories of Amanda, an ambitious hea...
Gareth Malone's Extraordinary School For Boys
Gareth Malone
Presenter
In the summer term of 2010 I was welcomed by Chris Thurgood, the head teacher of Pear Tree Mead Primary School, to teach a class of 39 boys. Since arriving at the school two years previously, she had been aware of the discrepancy in educational achievement between boys and girls. Quite simp...
The Big School Lottery: How we make the hard choices for your children
Julie Newbold
I'm the head of admissions and appeals at Birmingham City Council and my role, and that of my team, is to allocate secondary school places to pupils. Where necessary, we explain to parents why their child did not meet the criteria for their preferred school. Our work will be seen in The Big Scho...
