Barbara Wright Building The Barbara Wright Building was the main building of the renovated Coal Hill Academy . It was located on Foreman Street in Shoreditch , London . ( TV : " Nightvisiting " , " For Tonight We Might Die " ) Due to high levels of artron energy , Coal Hill Academy , and the Barbara Wright Building in particular , became the site of various alien incursions which were neutralised by the Coal Hill defenders . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " , et al . ) History . According to a plaque by its entrance , construction of the Barbara Wright Building was completed in spring 2016 , under the headship of Frank Armitage . ( TV : " The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo " , " Nightvisiting " ) One night in early September , ( TV : " Co - Owner of a Lonely Heart " ) the Twelfth Doctor took Charlie and Miss Quill away from their war - torn home planet of Rhodia , and left them outside the front of the Barbara Wright Building . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) From autumn 2016 onwards , Miss Quill taught physics in Room B3 , to students including Charlie , April , Ram , Tanya , Matteusz ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) and Lowe . ( PROSE : " Joyride " ) A female skin - peeling dragon fell through the hole in space - time into one of the corridors and bonded herself with Tom Dawson , a coach at Coal Hill . The dragon ' s male mate followed but saw that if he hurt Dawson it would hurt the dragon , so he left . Meanwhile , Dawson experienced a rapid growth in strength . He began killing people to keep the dragon alive . ( TV : " The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo " ) On 12 October , student Kevin Williams stayed in the building after dark , where he encountered a Shadow Kin . Quill gave him a displacement gun . Kevin shot the Shadow Kin with it , killing both the monster and himself . The following evening , Corakinus , leader of the Shadow Kin , came through a space - time crack to the Barbara Wright Building , and encountered Quill , Charlie , and April , who had been preparing for the prom . April skimmed it with the displacement gun , causing the two to share one heart . Coal Hill ' s Autumn Prom was held in the building ' s main hall on the 14 October . During the prom , the Shadow Kin attacked the school en masse . One student , Rachel Chapman , was killed . The Twelfth Doctor arrived and used his sonic screwdriver to amplify the lights of the Barbara Wright Building . The Shadow Kin were pushed back to where they came from and the prom was saved . The Doctor then talked to the five students who had helped him defeat the Shadow Kin : Charlie , April , Ram Singh , Tanya Adeola and Matteusz Andrzejewski . He tasked them with protecting Coal Hill from further alien attacks and tasked Quill with protecting them . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) A week later , Ram began found several of Coach Dawson ' s killings around the building . The mate of Dawson ' s dragon returned to Coal Hill School intent on getting her back . The dragon killed and skinned the head teacher , Mr Armitage , after breaking through a space - time crack in his office . When Ram realised that Dawson and his dragon tattoo were responsible for the killings , he and his friends confronted Dawson . The other dragon found Dawson at the same time and , with some encouragement from Ram , grabbed Dawson and took him through the hole in space - time , ending the killing spree . ( TV : " The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo " ) In November , multiplying petals gathered around Shoreditch . ( TV : " Co - Owner of a Lonely Heart " ) A student was killed attempting to reach the Barbara Wright Building . His bloody corpse slid down the entrance hall window . ( TV : " Brave - ish Heart " ) Layout . The Barbara Wright Building had a large entrance hall . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) Room A19 was the head teacher ' s office . ( TV : " Co - Owner of a Lonely Heart " ) Room B3 was Miss Quill ' s physics room ( TV : " Co - Owner of a Lonely Heart " ) and room D15 was Miss Shah ' s history room . ( TV : " Co - Owner of a Lonely Heart " ) Room C11 was the main school hall ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) and room G15 was the Sport Science Office . ( TV : " The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo " , " For Tonight We Might Die " ) A Learning Resource Centre was also located within the building . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) Behind the scenes . The building is obviously named after Barbara Wright , companion of the First Doctor who was a history teacher at Coal Hill School in the 1960s . Though not obviously visible in the episode itself , the prop for the Barbara Wright Building plaque also states that the architects were " Pick , Holder & Ragan Associates " of 17 Paternoster Place , London , and the contractor was " G Max Construction Ltd . " of Mace House , Mill Lane , Leytonstone .