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She faces a vendetta from teacher Eleanor Chaudry and Director of Education Richard Whitman, leaving the school facing closure. While a demonstration of support from staff and pupils allows Waterloo Road to remain open, Karen is dismissed. Charlie Fisher (Ian Puleston-Davies, series 6) is a supply teacher at Waterloo Road and Karen Fisher's ...
Grays Comprehensive School was a "social priority" school, meaning that teachers were paid extra. It was also underperforming academically. The deputy headteacher was Alan Goodwin. [34] It became grant-maintained in 1993 and "Comprehensive" was removed from the name. By this time, the deputy headteacher was Simon Viccars.
In some schools, a deputy head is the third most senior teacher, coming after the senior deputy head. The senior deputy head will run the school in absence of the head teacher. The senior deputy may be the line manager for other deputy head teachers, as well as tackling multiple leadership duties themselves, but this is not always the case.
Rosie Gulliver (portrayed by Sarah Solemani, series 1–3) – Rosie is the Biology teacher and former interim Deputy Headteacher at Abbey Grove School. She is openly bisexual and exceptionally takes pride when inspiring and teaching her students.
Teacher turnover, long a problem in K-12 education, has reached a record high since the pandemic hit, with 10% of educators leaving their jobs in the 2021-22 school year.
These additional roles that are found in English secondary schools can lead to senior leadership/administrative teams to be as large as 8–12 people, depending on the school's size and its demographics (e.g., 1-2 Headteacher(s), 2–4 Deputy Headteachers, 3–8 Assistant Headteachers).
Following the prefects are the senior staff, normally the Deputy Head Master and the Deputy Head Mistress. Behind the Deputy Heads comes the Chaplain. who is then followed by the Head's prefects, who are followed by the Head. Gowns are still worn but assemblies are now less formal and less religious than previously.
The show follows the lives of the teachers and the pupils at the eponymous school of Waterloo Road, a failing inner-city comprehensive, tackling a wide range of issues often seen as taboo such as alcoholism, pyromania, teenage pregnancy, fostering, exorcism, coercive control, freeganism, adoption, pole-dancing, rape, burn injury, terminal illness, workplace bullying, self-harming, deafness ...