♥_♥ Waterloo Road ♥_♥

For media I watched a TV Drama I had never watched before; I chose Waterloo Road. It is based on a boarding school in Scotland.
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Waterloo Road is a British television drama series, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Originally set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, England, in 2012 the location of the show was moved to an independent school in Greenock, Scotland. The series focuses on the lives of the school's teachers and students, and confronts social issues such as extramarital affairs, abortion, divorce, child abuse, and suicide.
Waterloo Road is produced by Shed Productions, the company responsible for Bad Girls and Footballers' Wives.



The series is set in and around Waterloo Road, a fictional school for students aged 11 to 18, a comprehensive in Rochdale in series 1 to 7 and an independent in Scotland thereafter.At the opening of the series, the school was notorious for being "on the scrapheap" with poorly behaved students and poor-quality teachers, but each head has tried to prove the school better than its reputation and it has passed multiple inspections to stay open across the years


Tom’s in his late 30's - and is one of Waterloo Road's most popular teachers. The boys like him because he doesn't push them, the girls fancy him because he's a good-looking male teacher – but he doesn't take his fan club seriously. He tells himself this is education the modern way, but it's really 'cos he doesn’t like taking a load of jotters home to mark.



Tom's from a solid working class family with a strong belief in the importance and value of education. He developed a love of English Literature, but university was always going to be the gateway to a free and easy life for gregarious, good-looking Tom. Teaching seemed like the best bet to avoid serious hard work and be paid for talking about a subject he enjoyed. Tom is basically a sweet-natured bloke, eager to please and avoid conflict – but this has also become his flaw: a willingness to compromise and postpone difficult decisions


Chalky is an accident waiting to happen. Nervy, with a bad haircut and old fashioned clothes - the minute he steps into a classroom every kid smells an easy kill. Incredibly bright and academic, on paper, Chalky is every head teacher’s dream. In reality, he is a very different story. He's unable to discipline a class - and the pupils run rings around him.



Chalky comes to Waterloo Road straight from the all-boys school he attended as a kid. Despite being on the receiving end of many a joke and prank there, Chalky got by as a teacher – even gaining the respect of much of the class, simply by being so passionate about his subject. Maths suits Chalky. It requires no opinion, no emotion and no modernisation. Equations will always be equations – there are no grey areas – just right and wrong.


He's not had an easy life. His parents are often absent, and he often lives on his own (with the occasional company of Ronan and Josh). Finn relies on his friends to feel secure - and all of his relationships are deeply intense and complicated.

Finn has never been comfortable in his own skin, but in series six a tentative romance began between him and Sambuca - and for the first time, Finn found a girl who was actually a stabilising influence. When Denzil began veering off the rails, Finn really tried to help get his head straight.