Dad, I can't find a black tie for Tommy anywhere.
He's only got one with Transformers on it.
I can't find half my stuff neither.
Dad?
Tommy, get up, will you?
Tommy?
Tommy's not here!
Dad! Tommy's not here!
Dad!
Tommy! Tommy!
DOG BARKS
Tommy!
Tommy?
Nice work, Lance.
All change, then.
I suppose a new uniform is a fait accompli?
It's on its way.
Welcome to Waterloo Road, Neil.
You're not one of ours, are you?
What have you got there?
That's for my mum, but I've done it wrong.
I don't think you've done it wrong.
Shall I put it up for you? Got one of these.
There you go. Right next to Mum.
That's good, innit?
Tommy, what are you doing?
Issy?
Hey, come inside and warm up, eh?
You both look like you need a brew. Come on.
And I know a woman that's got really great biscuits.
Right, Tommy, shall I show you where I hide the good biscuits?
Yeah, sure. Come on.
Just through here, sweetie.
It's not the easiest of days, is it?
SHE SNIFFLES
Issy, we are going to do everything that we can to help you.
I promise.
And I want you to know that I am not going to let anybody
in this school forget your mum. I'll just go.
Well, I'll be at the funeral later.
Why don't Miss Spratt and Miss Omar run you home?
There's no need.
Well, I'd just like them to check on your dad.
Oi! Come here, you.
What school do you go to? Waterloo Road.
No, see, what school do you go to?
I think it's that William Beswick one.
Listen, I go to William Beswick an' all,
so what school do you go to, mate?
William Beswick. Ah! Good boy!
I must have got, like, 20-minute kip last night?
That headcase going on about Steve.
Do I look like a Steve?!
Well, I was up till 3am trying to suss simultaneous equations
and I still don't get it.
But what's the point? Cos those suits haven't even decided
if I'm meant to be in school yet.
No, you're all right, man, it's fine.
It's all right for you to say!
You've got somewhere to go after this. What have I got?
Oh, aye! What school do you go to?
Oh, my God, Waterloo Road. Now can you move?
It's William Beswick! Oh, he's pushing me now!
He's pushing me!
He's too dumb to go there. Ooh!
What school do you go to, Danny?
Danny, don't waste your time on these... Danny, do you go to school?
What school? I ain't got a school yet.
Have you no school, mate? No home?
You've not even got a mum! Nothing!
CHANTING, SHOUTING
Danny, no!
No! Break it up, now!
Right, show is over.
And you're telling me that you want to be allowed back into the school?
Both of you are spending the day in isolation. Go!
Go.
Registration, now!
Thank you very much. Do up that top button, please.
Got your bag? O'Connor, where's your tie?
Remember I'm going to pick you up from drama club, all right?
Do you have to? Cos Dad always picks me up and we get smoothies.
Yeah, but not tonight.
It's OK. I can still pick her up.
Please, Mum, cos we've already missed movie night
and it's just not fair otherwise.
I'm just going to have a quick word with Mum, OK? OK.
This is crazy.
You went to your dad cap in hand.
You wanted the career break.
I took the career break so that you could make head
and now that hasn't happened.
So I'm a failure? Is that what the problem is here?
It's not me thinking you're a failure that's causing the problem.
Look, I need to come home tonight.
I only have a weekend bag.
OK.
Bonjour, ca va.
Ah, oui, Alice, ca va. Tres bien!
Joe, I need you and Lindon to get the behavioural unit open today.
We said next week.
Well, I just caught Dean Weaver
and Danny Lewis knocking seven bells out of each other.
I told them they've got to spend the day in isolation.
Hang on, the BU is not central detention.
It's for kids on the verge of exclusion.
We need parental signatures, we need behaviour contracts.
I can't let them get away with a fight, especially not after making
such a point of saying it was zero-tolerance.
And Danny needs to know that he hasn't got a free pass.
We're trying to pull him back in, aren't we? Not push him out.
I can't be seen as a soft touch.
Kim, I know what happened with Mrs Charles has hit you hard, but...
I did not change the name of this school for no reason.
We are trying to create a whole new culture.
We need to change too.
Which means lumping Danny in with Dean Weaver?
It's whatever works, Joe!
BELL RINGS
Look, I've got a massive report to write for the governors tonight,
right? I've also got a funeral to go to.
KNOCK AT DOOR
Yeah.
What do you want?
Oi! What do you think you're doing?
That's my work, that is.
Hey, come on, I missed one payment.
Oi! Not today.
Not today, all right?
Right, it's my wife's funeral, OK? Please.
Please! Please! It's my wife's funeral, man.
Please!
Come back!
Dad! Are you OK?
What's going on?
I'm Miss Spratt, I'm Amy and this is Jamilah.
I'm the social worker attached to Waterloo Road.
We don't need no social worker. I appreciate it's a difficult day.
You're her, aren't you? The one that was giving her first aid
when she should have gone to hospital.
If you'd done your job right, she'd still be here!
It's not her fault. Yeah, then whose fault is it, then?
Mr Charles, we're just here to support you and your family.
Stuff your support. Right, we don't need it.
Not from Waterloo bloody Road anyway. Issy, inside.
Come on, Tommy.
Issy, inside now!
What are you playing at, hey?
Get in.
Oh, Miss Campbell?
I must say, the new sign looks very nice.
Oh, right, thank you, Neil. I've got assembly, so I'm going to...
I do wish there'd been a little more consultation with staff,
though, before the change was formalised. Right.
Well, yeah, I appreciate it wasn't an ideal process for everyone.
Well, a lot of people don't want it, you know.
And I must admit I do share some of their concerns.
Right, that we no longer look up to a man who wouldn't have
let many of the pupils anywhere near the place?
Most of them didn't know who he was until all this.
What they did know was the heritage of the school.
And they knew that because their parents came here
and their grandparents.
And nobody can take that away from them, can they?
I have tried to discuss the underlying issues,
but you bring any nuance to the debate and you get shouted down.
Neil, the name has changed.
We can make our own heritage.
Sorry, can we do this later?
Seriously, why are we even here?
My God.
Where were you? I waited.
I was working out. Forgot the time.
Move your leg.
Good morning, Waterloo Road.
As you know, there was a fatality outside the school last week.
Her name was Chlo Charles.
And today is her funeral.
It's not like we got away with anything.
It feels like we've been in detention forever.
Doesn't matter how many we do.
It doesn't make up for someone losing their mum.
Now, I don't want to talk about what caused the accident again.
I'll leave that up to the enquiry.
No-one else is beating themselves up about it like this.
No-one else started making paint bombs. That's on me.
Just know that we have come down hard on everybody
involved in the riot and we will continue to do so
in the face of any violent behaviour.
Now, I would like to have a minute's silence to remember Chlo
and her family on this very hard day.
I can't do this.
Miss, Shola ain't feeling well.
Toilets, if you must.
Has it been a minute yet?
Like five seconds. Shut up.
Don't tell me to shut up.
Now, as you know, there was an email sent out last week
saying that we are pushing forward with the new uniform.
But the good news is that you are going to be able to see
the new uniform in here from today.
We are all in this together.
We are Waterloo Road.
COUGHS: William Beswick!
Shut up. It's Waterloo Road.
APPLAUSE
What are you doing back in bed?
Please, Is, just leave me alone.
Mum would have gone mad at you out there.
That teacher, she tried to help Mum, and you say all that to her.
I said I didn't need their help, Issy.
It's not happening to just you.
You're making everything ten times harder!
The one time I really need you, you're not here!
SCHOOL BELL RINGS
Our guests for today, Mr King.
All right, find a seat.
Where?
Chairs, yes, right.
What is this? Is it some sort of jail?
I don't even know what I'm doing here.
I'm guessing you've been thinking with your fists
like you usually do, Lewis.
Sir, this isn't my school now.
Why should I follow its rules? Because it's my school, that's why.
And why would you want to keep a name that so many
of your classmates find offensive? Cos it don't bother me.
Ever heard of empathy?
What, like when you can communicate using your brain?
Find out what it actually is
and I'll have five pages on empathy by the end of the day.
And you, Lewis, if you want to stay in this school, prove it.
I told them the accident was caused by paint on my windscreen.
Still, hours the police were at ours asking questions.
That's a bit much, isn't it?
You're not even the one who hit the poor woman.
That is what I told them.
If I was looking at anyone,
I'd be looking at the one who nicely bandaged her arm
instead of calling for an ambulance, but that's just me.
Well, I guess they'll find out what happens
when they've had the coroner's inquest.
Girls, class.
No, Miss, please, I have to talk to you, please.
What's the matter? Tell me at class.
Please can I go to Issy's mum's funeral, Miss? No, you can't.
But I want to say sorry.
That's not going to help them. It might help me.
Shola, listen, you've got to stop beating yourself up about this.
OK, you made a mistake,
but you could not have foreseen what happened.
So, I'm just supposed to forget? I'm supposed to carry on like normal?
I know it's not easy. You don't know, Miss, you don't!
For the Charles family.
Friendly advice? Mm.
Erm, some might think it's a bit much
when you were, you know, involved.
Involved?
See, it's one reason I never trained as a first aider.
People point fingers at you when things go wrong.
People are pointing fingers at me? Probably at me too,
but of course I've been cleared of any wrongdoing now.
Mr Charles did blame me,
but like Jamilah said, that's just the grief talking.
Isn't it? I'm sure.
This is a mess. Do it again.
This one was all right, though.
Show your working out clearly and fully.
Do it again.
Wendy, have you got the BU course projections to hand?
COUGHS
Miss, this school uniform... You two should be in class.
It's not gender neutral. No, it's not. That's because
there are some girls that object to not being able to wear a skirt.
Yes, because of cultural norms. So, if we decide to be
proactive about it, then it maybe could change.
OK, Caz... Miss Campbell, I'm really not happy. Right.
Sorry, can you just give me one minute?
Miss, it's a real opportunity wasted.
Caz, it is also a cost issue.
OK? We can't expect parents to replace skirts with trousers
unless they want to, which is fine by the way.
But it's OK to expect us to replace the blazer
and the tie and everything else? I mean, I do agree with that.
But the racist name had to go. Yeah.
And anyone who supports him, they're racist too.
All right, Nicky... Mrs Walters, do you want to take a seat in there?
Class.
Of course.
I don't think I should be expected to buy uniform again
just because the old one is now not politically correct any more.
Well, we're actually going to be issuing vouchers to cover
the cost of the blazer and of the tie. Excuse me!
I don't need the school giving me vouchers. No. No, sorry. I di...
I'll cover it anyway.
But I honestly think that this is going to give us
a school where everyone feels like they truly belong.
You know what I want?
I want my kids to belong to a school
that has decent sports gear and computers
cos the money's not been spaffed up the wall on uniform vouchers.
Well, I'm actually going to see the governors tonight
and we are going to be talking about additional sponsorship.
Oh, right. Well, I might come along.
No, you can't.
Parents aren't invited to the governors meeting, so.
Well, this parent's just invited herself, all right?
The decision has been made, Nicky.
Well, decisions can be unmade, Kim.
What are you trying to do?
I'm trying to get this place up and running.
That is a vulnerable kid in there with no family support.
If their teacher uses fear, intimidation and bullying,
then we cannot complain when they do the same thing.
You know what they're learning from your textiles and beanbags?
You're a soft touch.
You think they respect you. I promise you they don't.
You're wrong in the head, you, doing them sums again.
Cos I don't wanna get kicked out? I can't wait.
I don't get you wanting to come back in.
CLANG
I've got you crisps, man.
Mate, it's got bars on it, man.
Go find another one.
Use that way, man. Yeah, go on, man.
BANGING Oi!
He said stay in here.
They didn't put any bars in the bogs.
Cowboys, mate.
Hey. Oh, yes, mate.
Thank you. Thank you.
What have I told you about cheese and onion?
Chill, man.
What are you doing?
What?
You know if Mr King finds out, he'll go nuclear.
Well, he's not going to find out, is he?
You need to chill out, man.
The worst thing you can do is stress.
Go on.
All I'm saying is the boy has a talent for making wrong choices.
Yeah, and no-one to stop him making them but us.
Do you seriously think that...
Oi! What are you doing back there?
Nothing, sir.
Open the door now!
Both of you, outside, now.
It wasn't me, sir. I don't care who it was.
Get outside. I'm just saying, sir, it's not me.
Get outside, Dean!
The plumbing hasn't been done in here.
The Hundred Years War.
I take it we've all watched the module now. So what do we think?
Sir, you've still got that up.
That's because we should be paying attention
to the historical record, and not whoever shouts the loudest.
Is he talking about me?
So you don't agree with getting rid of the racist name, sir?
How long was the Hundred Years War? How long did it last?
Now, it's tricky. It's not as easy as it sounds.
I just asked you a question, sir.
Yes, and you're framing it in a particularly emotive way.
Well, you either do or you don't.
All right, if you want an honest answer,
no.
Oh, come on, sir!
William Beswick did a lot of good in his time.
That is a fact.
History is about establishing the truth,
whether you enjoy that truth or not.
Sir, you're something, you, sir. Yeah, gammon!
Well, here's a truth. You've got detention.
Again? Why? Or I've heard that the behavioural unit is open,
if you prefer to go there.
So it doesn't bother you, sir, that Beswick was a slave trader?
Oh, my days! No-one's actually ever cared before.
Just cos a couple of geeks want to go, "Oh, boohoo!"
Yeah. We don't care! What are you piping up for?
We don't care! Chill.
Do you know who was the key advocate for the abolition of slavery?
Mm?
The Duke of Wellington,
also known as hero of Waterloo.
But he was also involved in Peterloo, where soldiers
opened fire on innocent protestors just down the road from here.
So, is he to be celebrated or vilified?
See, the full picture is complicated,
and it goes against the nature of my subject
to reduce it to sloganeering.
You're cancelled, you, sir.
Snowflake!
Who are you throwing at?
SHOUTING
That will do.
All right?
Mum would have told you to iron them properly, but all right.
There's a big car.
All right.
Come on, kids.
CRYING
Hey.
Hey, it's all right.
Oi.
You don't want to go, do you, son?
OK. I'll tell you what, why don't you go next door with Di?
Yeah?
I'm sure she could do with a hand looking after Sparky, all right?
And I'll give this to Mummy.
Won't Mum be upset? No.
No, not with you, son.
Not with you.
Come here.
Come on. Let's go.
Do you want to sign against the new uniform?
No? Extra chips if you sign.
Mum, what are you...? Mum!
Sign against the uniform?
I appreciate what you're doing, Nicky,
but a few signatures isn't going to make any difference now.
I suppose not. So why don't we find a way
to make this work for all of us?
How about a couple of hundred signatures online? What?
Well, parents' WhatsApp group's up in arms.
It's busier than when Mr King did online swimming lessons. Oh, my God.
Right, I've got a funeral to go to. I can't do this now.
See, you don't appreciate what a stretch this is for people.
One little unexpected cost
and that's one day this week you can't afford to eat.
I'm lucky, but, you know, for other people.
Mum, why are you getting so hung up on this?
Excuse me, I actually have low blood sugar.
So...
BEEP
I am aware of the costs, OK,
and I'm doing everything that I can to soften the blow.
But pupils are not going to be sent home for wearing the wrong shoes
on day one of the new uniform, I promise.
Well, I want to hear what the governors think, to be honest.
I've asked the governors to back me on this.
I've said that I've got parental support.
Should have asked the parents first, then.
Who died and made you Marcus Rashford?
See, I told you he's going to expel us.
Technically it was only you they caught.
But I bet he's going to grass us up. I'm not a grass.
Till you get thrown out.
I'd grass. Shut up.
I'm not a grass.
Who brought it into the building?
What were you doing round the back?
Sir, just giving him his crisps, sir.
Crisps. All right, what, like salt and vinegar? Beef?
I think it was cheese and onion. Cheese and onion.
Do you think we're stupid?
Who brought drugs into the school?
Lewis?
You two, leave.
Sir. Cheers, sir.
If you're trying to protect those two idiots,
I strongly suggest you think again.
Yeah, well, I'm not.
Then where did it come from, then?
Got it at the hostel.
Why are you even going anywhere near drugs?
Look, it's the work, OK? It's too hard!
And I'm already falling behind and then you go and put me in there!
I just needed to de-stress!
Right.
Well, you're about to find out what real stress is.
It's a police matter, obviously.
Sir. Come on.
There are plenty of kids that would give their right arm
for this opportunity and you throw it away like that. I'm not.
If I had seen commitment in your work, Lewis, I'd be able to
stand by you, but I haven't seen anything like that.
You've had it in for me ever since I first got here.
If anyone would have had my back, I would have thought that it'd be you.
Take a seat.
You know that weed did not come in with Danny.
That's not what he said.
Well, he won't grass, will he? Not even on the likes of Weaver.
Look, I've seen what I need to see, OK?
No, you saw what you wanted to see.
Criminalise him now, he's finished. We lose him for good.
Yeah, and if we don't, he's going to think he can do what he likes.
No repercussions, no nothing.
Lindon, I am head of safeguarding.
I know things about Danny's background that you don't.
I know more than you ever will about Danny's background.
This is not going to help. Hello?
This is Mr King from Waterloo Road.
Do you think he's going to get kicked out, though? Don't know.
I mean, is he going to be able to stay in that hostel and that?
Don't know.
Do you think maybe you should have said something, then?
My dad'll leather us if I get kicked out.
Chill, man.
Oh, you have got to be joking.
Shola Aku, where do you think you're going?
You do not leave school without permission.
Go and report to Miss Whitwell, please.
I'm going to the funeral. No. No, we've talked about this.
You said yourself about responsibility -
this is me taking it. No, this is you acting as reckless
as you did at the protest.
See, you do blame me! And you're dead right because it's my fault.
Oh, get in.
Serious, Miss? We'll talk to your parents on the way, OK,
but you do not speak to the Charles family.
Do you understand? Yeah. Yes, Miss.
We come together here today to remember
and celebrate the life of Chlo Charles.
And it's important that as time goes on,
we remember the good moments in Chlo's life.
And in that spirit, Dante would now like to share his memories of Chlo.
I, erm...
I never expected to have to be up here.
But I...
I'm going to try and do a good job for you.
Chlo was the best person.
Chlo was...
I see we've got Waterloo Road in.
Shouldn't you be at school? You know, doing your job?
You know, if you did that right,
Chlo might still be here, Miss Campbell. I'm sorry.
Sorry?
You've got no clue.
No clue how it feels standing up here.
Dante, would you like to take a moment?
Come on.
I'm sorry.
I can't do it. I'm sorry.
Yeah, go on. Get out of here.
I told you not to take the ring road.
Just because you picked me up from the airport,
you think you can pull a fast one.
I'm a local, mate!
Whatever. Yeah. Same to you too.
Go on!
Denise.
Honey. Come here.
Thank God. I thought I was late.
I'm so sorry about Chlo. I can't believe it.
That is not how you do a tie up, you know.
Wait a minute, why are you out here by yourself?
I just... I couldn't face it, Jan.
What, you mean everyone's in there waiting?
Oh, mate, look, you'll feel worse later if you don't.
Is this your speech?
"The best person."
"If I could get hold of those responsible..."
I can't work out the rest of it.
It's your handwriting.
Yeah, well, I was hammered when I wrote it, so.
Yeah, well, most of it is quite angry.
But the stuff about Chlo is lovely. You can't not say it.
If I say it, then it's real, you know?
Hey.
I knew that you'd be like this today, so I got this made.
I got it engraved.
WWCD.
What would Chlo do?
Jan, it says WWDC. What would do Chlo?
Oh, I blame Budgen! He never did teach me no good spelling or owt.
Fine.
I tell ya what would do Chlo.
You have got a duty to do.
You've got all these lovely words and people need to hear them.
I just should have done more, you know?
No, you've done all that you could.
She was always telling me that you couldn't do more for her.
Well, that was after she banged on about you driving her mad.
You've got to do this today for her.
I don't think I can, Jan.
But will you?
Are you sure you're all right, Miss?
He just needed someone to shout at.
But it shouldn't be you. It's not fair.
Not a lot is.
Have we come the wrong way?
I want to show you something.
Something that I don't often share.
This is Dexter.
This is my son.
He was very brave.
Weren't you, my angel?
I should have seen the symptoms earlier.
I should have trusted my instincts that something was wrong.
But I didn't.
And he went through so much.
And then he was gone, and it was all my fault.
And it took me a long time to accept that there are just
some things in life that are out of your control.
But you have to, Shola, you have to realise that you did your best
and nobody thinks that it's your fault.
Chlo was the best person I ever knew.
And this is Dante speaking, yeah? So just pretend.
She was kind,
funny, caring and strange...
Strong, she were strong.
Sorry!
She was beautiful, inside and out.
A wonderful wife, a great mum.
But I'm not saying she didn't have her annoying little habits,
like stealing your chips, doing the dishes again
after I'd already done 'em, and supporting United!
But all those things are just what made you love her even more
because they were a part of who she was.
You might think this sounds weird,
but I stand here feeling like the luckiest man in the world.
Because me and Chlo met so young, we shared so many years together.
She gave me two beautiful children
and I see Chlo every day in little worser... Eh?
Eh?
Cheers, Jan.
I see Chlo
every day in little ways that they have that are just like her.
In Tommy's jokes...
..in Issy's smile.
And also the way that Issy never lets me get away with a thing.
You know, Chlo was a good person.
Which makes it that more unfair that...
You know what? Scrap that part.
Chlo wouldn't want us to waste our life being angry.
And she'd want us to be happy.
SCHOOL BELL RINGS
What the...
Oh, no.
Right!
Awesome, Sammy. Now, what other persuasive techniques do we know?
Sit down and shut your hole!
Written techniques, Kelly Jo.
KNOCK AT DOOR Come in.
Miss, can I see Kelly Jo Rafferty, please?
Regarding the vandalism of my classroom.
What? Are you sure it was her?
Oh, yes, she's got a very distinctive style.
All right, Mr Historical Facts.
It was me.
Come on, then.
No! Cos what do you expect?
When you're all like, "Oh, well William Beswick did good too."
What, cos he paid for some museums and that? Yeah, yeah.
No, cos I would have been dead impressed
while I was chained up in the bottom of his boat.
Kelly Jo. No, cos that's where I would have been, Miss.
Make no mistake.
And if you want that name on your chest,
you are as bad as the people that let him do it.
Worse even, cos you don't care.
You don't care about no-one but yourself.
Sorry, Miss.
OK, yeah, I'll let her know as soon as she gets back.
Thanks, Jamilah.
Right.
Well, I probably shouldn't be telling you this,
but the LEA have agreed to fund your place, Danny.
Danny, that is great news!
So, I got in?
Well, I guess that depends.
What do you say, then?
Sir.
In there, Lewis.
Officer.
This is for you.
You don't know who it belongs to?
No idea whose it is.
One of yours must have dropped it.
That's what we thought, isn't it, Mr Casey?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's, yeah,
that's exactly what we thought, yeah.
Well, I'll need to take a statement. Sure.
Can you give me a minute?
Very last chance.
So, where were we?
You've got another week of detentions for sneaking off,
you do know that, right?
You can use it to make up for the work that you've missed out on.
OK, Miss.
Miss? Mm? I reckon you were a banging mum.
This is good.
Danny, has it ever occurred to you that maybe I do have your back?
Just not in the way you want.
I'm not your mate.
I'm here to get the best out of you.
Does Miss Campbell have to know about the weed?
She's had a hard enough day as it is.
But Danny, when this place does open,
I don't want to see you back here again. OK?
CLEARS HIS THROAT
You were never going to tell the police, were you?
I told you.
I know what I'm doing.
DISTANT BANGING
Sir! I have just been sent here by Mr Guthrie, the fascist!
Oh, my God, I'm actually going to scream.
You just did. You just did, Kelly Jo.
Come on, you bundle of joy. Let's go. My office.
How are you finding it? Yeah, all right.
Yeah? Good.
Hey.
Ah, I'm glad you could join us, Shola.
We're just carrying on with the soundtracks from the short films.
Thank you.
Hi. Where have you been?
I'll tell you later.
What have I missed?
Only my mum being a total cringe, planning on shaming herself
by crashing the governors' meeting.
And hating on Miss Campbell just cos she already bought uniform.
Fill this bit in.
Mr Guthrie is very upset.
Yeah, well, he's racist, isn't it?
You destroyed school property.
Yeah, and it was a whole classroom of wrong,
so why are you actually shouting at me? I'm not shouting.
You made your point last week
and there's been big changes in response to it.
But this, you've gone too far.
Yeah, well, he's racist, though.
You have just done a week in detention
and now you've got yourself another one,
but is it going to make any difference?
How many times have we been here?
It's the same story. All the time!
You're confrontational, you're aggressive, you're disruptive.
I have told you before, you are heading rapidly towards exclusion.
OK!
OK. Yeah, well, I'm sorry.
Can we just skip to the rest of it? I'm dead tired now.
Rest of what? Well, you say I could get thrown out
and then I tell you, like, I'm upset cos my dad hasn't phoned me
in ages or whatever. And then you say,
"OK, Kelly Jo, well my door's always open, isn't it?"
And then I say, "Yeah, well, see you later then, Sir.
"Thank you so much for today. Bye!"
Sit down, now!
I was only joking.
I'm running out of options, Kelly Jo.
Violent behaviour now means you go to the behavioural unit.
Sir, you don't mean that.
You're just trying to scare me, aren't you, Sir? Am I?
Just there on the right, please.
Actually, just leave them here. Thank you.
Hello. I did not expect to be feasting my eyes
on your boxers today. What? Your wife left them at your desk.
Thanks. Really good of you to bring them all the way here
instead of just letting me know they were in the office.
You're welcome.
Everything OK? Everything's fine.
This dropped out, by the way.
Are you sure everything's OK?
Thanks again.
YELLING: Dan! One more mistake. Oh, my God! Move!
"One more mistake," he said.
What? One more mistake and I'm going to the BU? Well, fine! Do it!
Be the worst mistake he ever made, and do you know what he said to me?
He said... Shola was talking.
Right, so Miss Campbell might be like all up in your business
the whole time, but at least she listens,
and she's trying to make a difference.
And I don't agree with her on the specifics of the uniform,
but the racist name had to go.
His mum was making out like no-one wants the uniform.
We can't let Mrs Walters ruin everything.
Well, what are we supposed to do?
Have yous tried talking my mum out of summat she's got her mind set on?
Well, I was thinking - if she can crash the governors' meeting,
why can't we? Yeah, yeah.
It's not how I'd leave the classroom for the first teacher in tomorrow.
It won't happen again.
I did everything that I could for Mrs Charles.
There's no way I could have known that anything was seriously wrong.
Well, as long as you know what happened, that's all that matters.
Right, I've washed up, I have filled the fridge up
and I have flung that smelly bag of rubbish.
I mean, that was my laundry, but never mind!
Yeah, well it's probably only halfway down the wheelie bin.
Sorry!
Oh, Denise, thanks for everything.
Look, yous are all going to be OK, you know. Yeah.
Yeah, we're going to be OK, aren't we, hey? Yeah.
Right, well, I need to go. Can't keep Nanna Bryant waiting.
Right, so what do I owe you?
A cheeky voddy next time I'm in town.
Oh, aye. When's that going to be?
I don't know. I mean, even without Chlo, I do miss this place.
And don't you forget, WWDC.
WWDC.
What would do Chlo? Come here.
I love you, darling. Thank you.
CAR HORN PIPS Right, come here, you two.
Give me cuddles!
Hey, and you be good for Daddy.
What do you say?
Thank you!
See you later.
Cheers.
Nicky, please.
As a colleague, I am asking you, please don't do this.
You can see how many people agree with me.
I have got massive ideas for this school, but I can't do my job
unless I can show that I've got the community behind me.
I do three jobs, Miss Campbell, and I do them all
without anybody behind me.
Miss, it's Dean and Danny. It's going off again.
Your Preston's fighting an' all. You what?
Well, where are they? Preston?
Just so you know, Miss, some of us are on your side.
Kai!
Oh, wow.
Introducing newly improved Waterloo Road!
CHEERING
What?!
Take it away.
Brilliant. Brilliant!
Sorry, Mum.
Go on, Danny!
I think that the pupils have seen my report.
The bit at the end that says that kids will embrace anything.
It's us that struggle.
Let's look to the future.
CHEERING
Danny. Congratulations.
I heard you got in.
Well done.
Nicky. Just leave me, please.
Look, I know that you don't agree with this.
It's not that I don't agree.
I just...
I can't... It's just one thing too many.
I can't...
Hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey.
Talk to me.
SHE SOBS
I'm on the bones of my arse.
I pull together enough to make it through the week
and then there's another email,
there's another school trip,
there's a Christmas party.
Bloody uniform!
I'm so sorry. I had no idea. Well, of course you didn't.
Nobody does, because I don't let them.
Because I don't want my kids going without.
Because I don't want them worrying, so of course you've no idea.
You've no idea what it's like being a single mum to two teenagers
who want stuff all the time!
Lucky you.
KNOCK AT DOOR
Sir?
You know that essay?
You still not worked it out, Weaver?
No, I've done it.
I'll see you here tomorrow.
Sir.
MUSIC: You Haven't Loved Until You've Lost by Paris Youth Foundation
I mean, it's supposed to say, "What would Chlo do?" but...
Poor Denise! Yeah.
Dad, what will we do?
Mum did everything for us.
Hey, we're going to be OK.
Everything's going to be all right.
I suppose I'll have to buy them now you've put them on.
That's not what you say about all the going out stuff
you send off for. That's different.
I don't know why you had to make all that fuss, Mum.
Money's not that tight.
Wipe your feet.
Oh, Neil.
I heard about your classroom.
Kelly Jo has been appropriately punished.
She is a prime candidate for the BU.
But in the meantime, she'll still be in my lesson, of course.
I have to apologise.
I think that I have made it harder for you.
For everyone, probably.
Yeah, well, let's just hope it works.
I need people who remember that the old school wasn't all bad
and that the new one's not going to be all good.
Nuance.
I'm very lucky to have a teacher
with your experience who can handle that.
Thank you.
Room for one more? Yeah.
I heard that you did good with Danny today.
Well, me and Joe.
He just needed a little bit of leaning on, that's all.
Yeah, so I heard.
Remind me not to get on your bad side.
It's too late for that.
I mean you've already gazumped me out of the headship.
Oh.
Right.
Well, you know what you can do, don't you?
Could go somewhere else.
Mm. Nah.
I'm still after your job.
Right.
Well, come and have a go if you think you're hard enough.
And that is fighting talk.
Ahem.
What?
I am very busy and he is very married, so don't even start.
I don't think he's that married.
He's moved out of the home.
Are you kidding?
I don't care.
He could be stood outside my house with a banner on
saying "available" and I still wouldn't go there, OK?
OK. OK.
OK.