What's it like being on the receiving end of the education system? What's it like being in Year 8, when progress can dip? This revealing series follows four Year 8 children, from Hove Park School in Sussex, offering snapshots of their perceptions and experience of school. The programmes interweaves intimate classroom footage with frank video diary recorded by the children at home. Louise left her primary school with above average Key Stage 2 scores, and though her parents thought of sending her to a private school, Louise wanted to be with her friends. Louise enjoys French and PE, where she is constantly occupied, but reveals her frustration with a number of subjects in which she finishes tasks early and is drawn into time wasting gossip with her friends, rather than being set extension work.

Video Series: Follow The Learner
Release Date 2006