That'll Teach 'Em - Complete Season 2 (2004) [TVRip (DivX)] FLOTW 6 January - 12 January
Language: English
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Genre: TV Show | Documentary | Family | History
IMDb info

This year the programme (That'll Teach 'Rm Too) is based around the sort of vocational education pupils would of received in the 1960's at a secondary modern school. So 15 boys and 15 girls with predicted C-, D- and E-grade GCSE's have been selected to go to the fictional Hope Green Secondary Modern using the timeline of 1964.

This part of the sixties was chosen as it is just before the beginning of the introduction of the comprehensive school system.

For four weeks the 30 pupils will be at the Royal Grammar School High Wycombe in the wing that has been transformed into the Sixties Hope Green Secondary Modern School. They will face the regime of Headmaster Roger Fawcett, which will include early bed times, lots of exercise and lessons in community as well as the waxed toilet paper and kippers for breakfast.

For their education the girls will be studying cooking and childcare while the boys will have lessons in brick laying and carpentry.

In cooking for example the girls will have to learn how to use their hands to mix cakes and knead bread and to type with an old fashioned typewriter with carbon paper and a rubber for corrections.

The boys will learn to do woodwork with traditional tools using for example a bit and brace rather than the Black and Decker power drill.

(Description excerpted from http://thatllteachemtoo.co.uk/

Episode Guide

Season 2 Episode 1: EPISODE: 1

A social experiment which sends 30 16-year-olds back in time to a Sixties-style state school, where they learn the practical skills that used to be taught, as well as sitting the exams of the era.

* Season 2 Episode 2: EPISODE: 2

A social experiment which sends 30 16-year-olds back in time to a Sixties-style state school, to learn the practical skills that used to be taught in state schools. The comparisons they make will help fuel the debate about British children's education over the past 50 years.

* Season 2 Episode 2: EPISODE: 2

The boys prove adept at car maintenance, giving them a massive confidence boost, but the girls find being trained as housewives far less appealing, managing to strip the paint from the walls while learning to clean a house. A spelling test and an outbreak of constipation spread panic through the school, but Matron is on hand to put things to rights in time for Guides and Scouts.

* Season 2 Episode 3: EPISODE: 3

The class face their mock CSEs in English and maths, which will determine who is selected for a bright future of academic study, and who goes into a life of manual labour. The girls' culinary skills are put to the test when they prepare a meal for the headmaster, while Andrew Brown is sentenced to a bout of dung-shovelling for answering back to Matron.

* Season 2 Episode 4: EPISODE: 4

The school holds an open day so the parents can see what their children have learned - including a display of gymnastics and maypole dancing. The boys' competitive side comes to the fore as they enter wrestling matches and learn to drive, while the girls find themselves stuck in the kitchen. However, the end is almost in sight as the final exams loom on the horizon.

* Season 2 Episode 5: EPISODE: 5

The students revise for their exams, with those who passed their mocks facing CSEs in English and Maths and those who failed undertaking bricklaying and typing. But before the test, they are packed off to scout and guide camp, where the girls finally throw off the xxxist shackles of the period and declare all-out war on the boys. Back at school, there are some pleasant surprises when the results are announced, while an IQ test also reveals some unexpected findings. Last in series.

Complete Season 2: 5 Episodes