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Educating Yorkshire
For everyone who needed one teacher to hear them out, and for the teachers still showing up. 🎧
Who it's for
Educating Yorkshire uses fixed cameras to follow a year at a Dewsbury secondary school, showing teenagers dealing with exams, behaviour problems, bereavement and family difficulties alongside teachers who keep showing up for them.
Insecure→Hopeful
Feelings it meets
What it is
Educating Yorkshire is a Channel 4 fixed-rig documentary series that aired in 2013–2014, following staff and students at Thornhill Community Academy in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, under headteacher Jonny Mitchell.
Where to find it
Channel 4 (UK). Streaming availability rotates; check JustWatch.
Before you start
Heads up: Swearing, fights and bullying.
Age: Not verified (suggested 12+)
O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, no. 28
