We Are England

Bristol poet Lawrence Hoo struggled at secondary school. He was thrown out of six and remembers looking in the pages of textbooks and thinking that out of everyone who achieved things, who were ‘great', no one looked like him. They were all white.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, schools closed for prolonged periods across the country, leaving parents to home educate their children. For some parents this proved difficult, with 47% of employed parents reporting their job being negatively affected by home educating.

Paramedic science degree courses were introduced in the UK in 1998 and the training has developed over the last two decades. In Make Me a Paramedic we follow two students striving to achieve their dreams of becoming fully trained paramedics. As well as looking at their time on

Six Luton teenagers are taught how to handle animals, and themselves, at England's largest zoo.

Fleeing war, violence and persecution abroad, young refugees from Ukraine and other countries restart their educations in England, finding a new life through new schools. We meet three refugee students who fled their homes to seek safety in the UK - and also meet the Britons who are welcoming them into their homes.

Aaron, Kate, Kaya and Zaki are four engineering students at Bede Academy, Blyth. Despite being at differing stages of development, they are all convinced they will leave school as engineers.