This documentary script follows students and teachers at Cardinal Newman Catholic School. It will show the challenges faced by the school's 150+ students, with a focus on those in years 10 and 13. The documentary will profile teachers and their experiences, as well as examining the lives of students in both year 10 as they work towards their GCSEs, and those in the sixth form. It depicts students in year 10 reacting negatively to an upcoming exam, feeling unprepared and unwilling to revise. The documentary will also interview year 13 students about the pressures of their final year in sixth form.

1. DocumentaryScript
Starts with sound effects – music plays in the background of the playing footage
of the outside of the school
Voiceover: CardinalNewman Catholic School
Then cuts to more footage of studentsrunning around the playground.
Voiceovercontinues
Voiceover: More than 150 students attend here and all 150 of them arefacing
the challenges that are ahead of them
Cuts to footage of a classroom with studentsand a teacher. Voiceovercontinues
Voiceover: In this series we follow the teachers
Cuts to footage of canteen during break. Voiceovercontinues
Voiceover: Their fellow students in year 10
Cuts to footage of the sixth form building. Voiceovercontinues
Voiceover: And we also look into the lives of the students attending sixth form
Cut to the opening title scene were the footage of a hand held shotof a student
walking along with a view of the otherstudents. Title of the documentaryshows
in the top left hand side. Music endsand there is the sound of the bell ringing.
Fadesto the footage of a classroom of Year10’s.
Voiceover: Its 2nd
period and Miss/Mr ----- is teaching their class
Show clip of class working and talking. Use naturalsounds. Voiceovercontinues.
Voiceover: How areyou finding your GCSE’s?
Cuts to an interview of a studentin Year 10
Student: (Says their opinion and gives answer)
Interviewer: Is there any pressure on you during this time?
Student: (Says their opinion and gives answer)
Interviewer: How would you say you deal with the pressure?
Student: (Says their opinion and gives answer)

2. Bell rings and showsclip of the schoolgroundswhile children are making their
way to class
Voiceover: After class the year 10 students have just found out that they have
an early exam coming up in the next week, and they aren’ttaking the news well.
Cuts to a group of studentsand theyare talking aboutthe upcoming exam #
Student1: (Mostly improvised) I can’tbelieve that they have actually done this
to us
Student2: (Mostly improvised) I know right, it’s actually a joke there’sno way
I’m going to get a high grade
Student3: (Mostly improvised) I mean I’m notgonna turn up, I just can’tbe
asked.
This conversation continuesuntilthe bellsoundsagain. Sad music is playing
Voiceover: But it’s not only the Year 10’swho arefeeling the pressure
Cuts to establishing shotof the schooland the students
Voiceover: We asked the Year 13’show they find it as they go into their final
year.
Show a variety of shotsof differentinterviewsof sixth formers as they answer
howthey are finding sixth form. Cutsto a clip of the schoolgroundswith the title
of the documentaryshowing up in the top lefthand corner.