Jamie's Dream School
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Documentary
Seasons | 1
Episodes | 7
avg.Runtime | 60 min
First EP | 2011-03-02
Last EP | 2011-04-13
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Jamie's Dream School is a seven-part British television documentary series made by Fresh One Productions, first aired on Channel 4. In it, Jamie Oliver enrols a group of teenagers with fewer than five GCSEs into his "Dream School" - a school in which lessons are taught by celebrities who are specialists in particular subjects. Participants, both pupils and teachers, gave evidence to the Education Select Committee in June 2011. The lessons from Jamie’s Dream School are available on-line a dedicated YouTube channel, including David Starkey's history course and Simon Callow's drama lessons. Many are full-length videos as well as shorter clips and other interactive elements.
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Season List
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Relesed on | 2011-03-02
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Episode 1
2011-03-02
David Starkey hopes to inspire the class with some seventh-century 'bling' from the Staffordshire Hoard. A traditionalist, he plans to take a firm hand with bad behaviour, but he gets off to a difficult start when he and a student trade insults.
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Episode 2
2011-03-09
Jamie tries to address the issue of discipline head-on with the kids, which includes banning mobile phones in lessons. New teacher Alastair Campbell thinks he can get 20 apathetic kids excited about politics by showing how they can change the world, but his lessons in how to argue spill outside the classroom.
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Episode 3
2011-03-16
Jamie worries if the good work in the school is being undermined by indiscipline. And two new teachers join the staff: maths and finance guru Alvin Hall and environmentalist Jane Poynter.
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Episode 4
2011-03-23
Jamie wants to see if a classical education, taught by some of the most brilliant people, can reach today's disillusioned children, so he enlists the help of a Latin scholar from Cambridge.
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Episode 5
2011-03-30
The end of term is looming. Some of the kids have been inspired by the star teachers, but the pressure is on to reach the rest.
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Episode 6
2011-04-06
As school term draws to a close the pressure is on to get the teenagers back into education and attention turns to the hardest-to-reach kids. In a last-ditch effort, Jamie tries three very different approaches.
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Episode 7
2011-04-13
It's the last few days of the school term and Alastair Campbell has managed to get the Dream School kids invited to Downing Street to put their points about education to the Prime Minister, David Cameron.
CAST
charactor:
Original: Jamie Oliver
Total EP: 7
charactor: Himself
Original: Alastair Campbell
Total EP: 1
charactor: Himself
Original: George Osborne
Total EP: 1
charactor: Himself
Original: David Cameron
Total EP: 1
charactor: Herself
Original: Mary Beard
Total EP: 1
charactor: Himself
Original: Simon Callow
Total EP: 1
charactor: Himself
Original: David Starkey
Total EP: 1
charactor: Himself
Original: Robert Winston
Total EP: 1
CREW
“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.” – Walt Disney