Educating Yorkshire

Lots of them do.

It seems to me the staff spend too much time sorting out minor squabbles between kids. Used to be the case that you were told to sort it out yourselves in your own time.

The kids seem to lap it up because they are the centre of attention and they get out of a lesson or two.

Just watched the first episode, I was really surprised that the Assistant Head couldn’t speak English properly.
It was the classic what instead of that.

I’m going to be really pedantic now…… LUNCH, it’s not dinner it’s LUNCH!

The staff do seem to be very dedicated, the pupils just seem to be anxious.

I cannot understand all the angst about friendship groups and girls falling out . We just got on with it at that age and I never once fell out with a friend . I hope some of the parents see how their children behave in class and give them a good talking to . We would never have dared to take back to a teacher as they do all the time . I was in senior school in the late 1950s by the way .

Headteacher, Mr Burton’s hair tonight! 😝. It looks an absolute fright and I can’t imagine what the kids say behind his back. It is the kind of haircut 13 year old boys get.

Poor Jacob. A very troubled young lad.

What did Jacob do to get transferred to another school? I went to the kitchen when the deputy head was pulling out all the stops for him, and when I came back she was upset and he was gone.

I know what you mean about the dreadful hair. I can't work it out - does he have a very short cut with a toupee, and what is that hairnet thing? I can only begin to imagine the stick he would have got at the school I went to😳.

He's a good HT though. He's very caring, but I don't think he takes any nonsense. The boundaries are very different from 'my day', but they are there, and the children know where they are. They take account of things like ADHD and Autism, which must have existed before but were unrecognised and punished rather than helped, and on the whole the school seems a much happier place than I remember, despite the drama. I suspect it all still happened, but the staff weren't interested in the children in the way they are nowadays.

Doodledog

What did Jacob do to get transferred to another school? I went to the kitchen when the deputy head was pulling out all the stops for him, and when I came back she was upset and he was gone.

I know what you mean about the dreadful hair. I can't work it out - does he have a very short cut with a toupee, and what is that hairnet thing? I can only begin to imagine the stick he would have got at the school I went to😳.

He's a good HT though. He's very caring, but I don't think he takes any nonsense. The boundaries are very different from 'my day', but they are there, and the children know where they are. They take account of things like ADHD and Autism, which must have existed before but were unrecognised and punished rather than helped, and on the whole the school seems a much happier place than I remember, despite the drama. I suspect it all still happened, but the staff weren't interested in the children in the way they are nowadays.

Jacob took photographs around the school including in the changing rooms, thinking it would be amusing. Innocent and not shared on social media, but a huge no-no! Protocols had to be followed.

Floradora9

I cannot understand all the angst about friendship groups and girls falling out . We just got on with it at that age and I never once fell out with a friend . I hope some of the parents see how their children behave in class and give them a good talking to . We would never have dared to take back to a teacher as they do all the time . I was in senior school in the late 1950s by the way .

My GD now in year 11 has had a terrible time with horrible girls in school, so much so she doesn’t want to stay onto Sixth form there . Sad because she is lovely and has friends out of school but the ring leader of these girls is really nasty. Her twin brother has no problems , it’s just girls . My DD ( not GD’s mum) also had issues with other girls too . I wish GD had a pastoral support that there is in Educating Yorkshire.

Jacob took photographs around the school including in the changing rooms, thinking it would be amusing. Innocent and not shared on social media, but a huge no-no! Protocols had to be followed.
Thank you. I couldn't have worked that out for myself.

Sarnia

kircubbin2000

Last night they had Tremaine. Dread to thi l what he'll be like as a teen.

I hope he turns a corner because what I see is a distressed little boy realising that with a reading age of 5 he is the worst reader and writer in his year group of 11 year olds. I worked in secondary schools and teenagers can be cruel to anyone who is 'different'.
Where were his Primary School and parents in the preceding years? He has been failed by those who should have recognised and helped him.
Thornhill have an uphill struggle with him but I hope, with the teachers help, that Tremaine will turn a corner and be a teen with a chance.

I too taught in secondary for a long, long time. In many cases, when pupils came into Y7 with specific educational needs, medical conditions, or idiosyncrasies, their primary peers had just accepted it all years ago, and so eventually the pupils who hadn't known him/her before, just accepted it too.

Just watched the first six episodes of this series. Amazing school. Very hands on head. He is very visible. I was surprised to see him doing dinner duty! I think that is admirable.
Really loved the episode when the boy with the stammer, now a successful journalist, came to give a motivation speech to the year 11s.
I don’t know if it was arranged for the cameras but the class sizes seem really small.