Our School (TV series)
Our School is a British documentary reality television programme on CBBC which first aired on 3 September 2014 and has run for six series. It uses a fly on the wall format to show the everyday lives of the staff and pupils of secondary schools and follows children as they move from year 6 into year 7, each series is filmed in a different school.
| Our School | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Entertainment Documentary Reality television |
| Created by | BBC |
| Directed by | Cher Adamson Chris Chapman Matt Grosch Jamie McLeish |
| Voices of | Martin
Thoburn (Series 1 & 2017 Special, 2018 Special, 2020 Special) Trevor Evans (Series 2 & 2017 Special, 2018 Special, 2020 Special) Martin Jones (Series 3 & 2018 Special) Ben Shore (2019 Special, 2020 Special & Series 7) Ewan Nicoll (Series 4 & 2019 Special, 2020 Special) Shirley Ballas (Our School Summer Camp) Helena Worth (Series 5 & 2020 Special) Filthy Frank (Series 6) |
| Opening theme | "Our School" |
| Ending theme | "Our School" |
| Composer(s) | Sam Gale |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English (UK) |
| No. of series | 6 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Kez Margrie Richard Marson |
| Producer(s) | Vanessa Singh Natasha Cox Matt Grosch Cher Adamson Chris Chapman Jamie McLeish |
| Production location(s) | Conyers School (Series 1) Greenwood Academy (Series 2) Firth Park Academy (Series 3 and 7) Shawlands Academy (Series 4) Hawthorn High School (Series 5) Ryburn Valley High School (Series 6) |
| Editor(s) | Samdeep Singh Rana |
| Camera setup | Multi camera Dual cameras |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | TwoFour |
| Distributor | TwoFour |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBBC (2014-present) CBBC HD (2013-present) |
| Picture format | HDTV 1080i |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 3 September 2014 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Series overview
| Series | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 16 | 3 September 2014 | 7 September 2015 | |
| 2 | 15 | 5 January 2016 | 19 April 2016 | |
| 3 | 15 | 5 September 2017 | 12 December 2017 | |
| 4 | 20 | 7 August 2018 | 18 December 2018 | |
| 5 | 20 | 3 September 2019 | 10 December 2019 | |
| 6 | 20 | 26 August 2020 | 23 December 2020 | |
Development and production
Our school was commissioned by TwoFour and CBBC [1] in September 2013, the series follows students from different primary schools and moving into secondary school. The series sees year 7 students on their first year in a secondary school and follows the day-to-day life of children in school. The series uses a fly on the wall style camera system and is filmed over a whole year. Each series is filmed in a different school. The series are narrated by the teachers of the schools. The first series was made up of 16x30 minute episodes and ran for 15 weeks in 2014 with a special catch up episode airing in September 2015
The series was renewed for a second series and was made up of 15x30 minute episodes and the series aired in early 2017. In August prior to the third series a special episode aired in where 2 students from each school in series one and two met up and went to each other's schools to see what it's like. A third series has been ordered and will begin airing on 5 September 2017 and will again be made up of 15x30 minute episodes.
Episodes
Series 1 (2014–15)
It was filmed at Conyers School in Yarm near Middlesbrough. It featured the Year Seven classes experiencing Secondary School and the challenges they may face in life such as multi skills
Our School was first announced in early 2014, the series follows the same format as Educating (TV series) on Channel 4 which uses a fly on the wall cameras. The series follows 11 year 7's as they move up from primary school to secondary school and follows them on their first year. The first series was made up on 16x30 minute episodes and began broadcasting on 3 September 2014 and finished on 19 December 2019
In 2015 it was announced that a special episode would be added to the first series which aired on 7 September 2015 and was a catch-up episode which saw the cameras return to see on what had happened to the year 7's now year 8's since the series aired.
| No. overall | Title | Original air date |
|---|
Series 2 (2016)
This series is filmed at Greenwood Academy in Castle Vale near Birmingham.
The Second series of Our School began on 5 January 2016 and ran for 15 weeks with the final episode airing on 12 April 2016 and was retitled Our School 2 and followed the same style as series one.[2] The Third series of Our School began on 5 September 2017.[3]
The series was renewed for a third series and will air from September 2017. Before the launch of the third series there was one of special in which saw two students from series one and series two swap schools for a day and got to know the other students, the special aired in August 2017.
| No. overall | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
| 17 | New Starts | 5 January 2016 |
| 18 | On The Ball | 12 January 2016 |
| 19 | Getting Ahead | 19 January 2016 |
| 20 | Find Your Focus | 26 January 2016 |
| 21 | Change Your Ways | 2 February 2016 |
| 22 | Going Forward,Stepping Back | 9 February 2016 |
| 23 | You've Got A Friend | 16 February 2016 |
| 24 | Who Am I? | 23 February 2016 |
| 25 | My Camera Never Lies | 1 March 2016 |
| 26 | Helping Out | 8 March 2016 |
| 27 | The Hunger Game | 15 March 2016 |
| 28 | We Can Be Heroes | 22 March 2016 |
| 29 | Where The Heart Is | 29 March 2016 |
| 30 | In It To Win It | 5 April 2016 |
| 31 | Show Stopper | 12 April 2016 |
Series 3 (2017)
| No. overall | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
| 33 | New Faces | 5 September 2017 |
| 34 | True Colours | 12 September 2017 |
| 35 | A Goal For Wayne | 19 September 2017 |
| 36 | Meaty Matters | 26 September 2017 |
| 37 | Just the Job | 3 October 2017 |
| 38 | I Can't Do It...Yet | 10 October 2017 |
| 39 | Show Me the Funny | 17 October 2017 |
| 40 | There's No i In Team | 24 October 2017 |
| 41 | The Ghost of Firth Park | 31 October 2017 |
| 42 | Repping and Rapping | 7 November 2017 |
| 43 | Swap the Teacher | 14 November 2017 |
| 45 | Tricky Business | 21 November 2017 |
| 46 | African Adventure | 28 November 2017 |
| 47 | Moves Like Michael | 5 December 2017 |
| 48 | Strictly Year Seven | 12 December 2017 |
Series 4 (2018)
- The New Boy
- Laugh Out Loud
- Give Us a Try
- I'm Not Your Dude
- It's Great Outdoors
- A Piece of Cake
- Something New
- Frenemies
- Try Being Me
- Express Yourself
- You Can't Win 'Em All
- We're All Scottish
- Deaducation
- Back in the Day
- Paws for Thought
- Eyes on the Prize
- In at the Deep End
- Passion for Fashion
- Edinburgh - Here We Come!
- So This Is Christmas
Series 5 (2020)
- A Brand New Term
- A Class Full of Chickens
- When School Sucked
- Here Comes Trouble
- Plastic Not Fantastic
- Lessons in Gunge
- A Slice of Pizza
- Face Your Fears
- Partners in Crime
- Our Scary Movie
- Teaching Me Tidy
- Leap of Faith
- Vote for Me
- Can't Play Will Play!
- And Then They Were Eight
- Would You Eat Frogs Legs
- Keep Calm and Carry On
- The Magic of Christmas
- Get Your Act Together
- Our School Rocks
Specials
- When Conyers Met Greenwood
- One Last Term
- Moving Day
- Return To Firth Park
- How We've Changed
- Taking The Boys Out of Sheffield
References
- Catherine Booth Bible College. (1989), CBBC., Office of Media Ministries, OCLC 1057737839
- Cameron Decker (14 April 2016). "Our School - Series 2: New Starts - BBC Documentary 2016" – via YouTube.
- Elvis Javier Mattos Villegas (5 September 2017). "Our School - Series 3: BBC Documentary 2017" – via YouTube.
- "We Are Year 7, Series 1, Our School - Credits - BBC - CBBC". BBC.
