Educating Essex (Documentary, English)
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2011-09-22
Ended: 2011-11-03
Network: Channel 4
Country: GB
Airs on: Thursday
Air time: 21:00
Runtime: 60 minutes
What is life really like for today's students and teachers? This series has unprecedented access to an English secondary school to follow a group of GCSE students, and the staff who teach them, as they face the most important year in their education. Passmores School in Harlow, Essex, is a successful school in a challenging area. Under headteacher Vic Goddard, it's been awarded Academy status and is rated 'outstanding' by Ofsted. The school has been rigged with 65 fixed cameras - from the corridors to the canteen, and from the headteacher's office to the detention hall - to reveal every detail of daily life.