The Day of the Doctor
Coal Hill School appeared again twenty-five years later, in the 50th anniversary special "The Day of the Doctor". The Eleventh Doctor's companion Clara Oswald is shown to have become an English teacher at the school. The school sign names the Headmaster as W. Coburn, making reference to Anthony Coburn, who wrote "An Unearthly Child", and lists I. Chesterton as the head of governors. Reviewers saw the Coal Hill sequence in "The Day of the Doctor" as a pleasant nostalgic touch or a "delightful Easter Egg", though Ian Sadler of online magazine "Hi!" felt the school was included "just so fans could be teased with an irrelevant scene." The Coal Hill sequence in "The Day of the Doctor" was filmed at Gladstone Primary School, Whitchurch Road, Cardiff.