Educating … Specials

Channel 4 goes back to school at Thornhill Community Academy to catch up with some of the best-loved characters from Educating Yorkshire. They're a year older and a whole range of things have changed for the students: trouble-makers have turned around their reputations; love is in the air; and new challenges are faced at school and college. Many of the old Year 11s who couldn't wait to escape are now missing Thornhill more than they would ever have imagined. For Musharaf, who spent his school days crippled by a stammer, the final few months of school and life beyond its walls have brought him a new-found confidence, which continues to grow. While the students' lives are ever-changing, Mr Mitchell and his team are still on a mission to make Thornhill a first-choice school while keeping the teenagers' behaviour in check.

Educating: What I Wish I'd Known...: this series of shorts, filmed in summer 2014, asks students from Educating Essex and Yorkshire to reveal the one piece of advice they wish they could have given their teenage selves.

Educating: What I Wish I'd Known...: this series of shorts, filmed in summer 2014, asks students from Educating Essex and Yorkshire to reveal the one piece of advice they wish they could have given their teenage selves.

Educating: What I Wish I'd Known...: this series of shorts, filmed in summer 2014, asks students from Educating Essex and Yorkshire to reveal the one piece of advice they wish they could have given their teenage selves.

Educating: What I Wish I'd Known...: this series of shorts, filmed in summer 2014, asks students from Educating Essex and Yorkshire to reveal the one piece of advice they wish they could have given their teenage selves.

Educating: What I Wish I'd Known...: this series of shorts, filmed in summer 2014, asks students from Educating Essex and Yorkshire to reveal the one piece of advice they wish they could have given their teenage selves.

Educating: What I Wish I'd Known...: this series of shorts, filmed in summer 2014, asks students from Educating Essex and Yorkshire to reveal the one piece of advice they wish they could have given their teenage selves.

Catching up with the staff and pupils of Thornhill Community Academy near Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, and following a selection of students as they find out how they did in their GCSEs. Musharaf captured the attention of the nation by overcoming his stammer and is now at college trying to fulfil his ambition to become a teacher, while Sheridan is learning to drive and hoping to achieve a grade C in maths. Headmaster Mr Mitchell and teachers including Mr Burton and Mr Steer prepare for the end of the school year and those important exams

Following struggling stammerers as they enrol on an intensive four-day course called The McGuire Programme. This documentary features Musharaf Asghar, affectionately known as "Mushy", from Educating Yorkshire.