Episode 1

High School follows a year in the life of one of Europe's biggest schools, Holyrood Secondary in inner-city Glasgow. The three-part series follows the tears and triumphs of some of its 2,000 pupils and their teachers.

It is the start of the school year and 450 nervous new first years arrive at Holyrood Secondary. The sixth formers are competing to become head boy and head girl, and one of the teachers makes a huge decision to leave school life behind.