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- Kids Behind Bars
- New Servants
- The RIBA Stirling Prize
- The Unteachables
- The Last Aztec
- Hospital Heroes
The Unteachables
16 underachieving, extremely challenging, yet bright and likeable school children embark on a whole new way of learning in The Unteachables.
These 'unteachable' kids are what the state education system refer to as 'disaffected' - either completely disengaged from what's going on in the classroom (preferring to entertain themselves and other students with mobile phones, ipods and idle chatter) or so abusive and disruptive in school that permanent exclusion was inevitable.
The Unteachables is a fast paced, upbeat, yet thought provoking exploration and illustration of what is really happening in our schools today. But are these kids Unteachable or simply Untaught?
Three ordinary secondary schools with good Ofsted reports allow us in to their classrooms to see first hand the frustrations felt by both teachers and pupils. It is then down to four leading experts in the field of education (a Professor, a Psychologist, an award winning teacher and a Superhead) to put their professional reputations on the line. They come up with a strategy to get the kids back on track, but it's a strategy that had never been tried before…
Phil Beadle won an RTS Breakthrough Award for on screen talent in March 2006.
Heat, Oct 2005, "It is like Jamie's School Dinners, it's provided us with genuine food for thought."
The Observer, Sept 2005, "Beadle is either totally insane, or some kind of inspired prophet, selflessly leading us all out of educational wilderness. An emerging national hero even: what Jamie Oliver was for school dinners, Beadle could become to inner city education."