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00:00Five, six, seven, eight.
00:01School. Love it or loathe it?
00:05Can I be talking in my class?
00:06Yeah, I prefer the work than being in school, really.
00:09We all have to do it.
00:10So I've actually learnt nothing.
00:14Minus one, minus one.
00:16I feel 100%, I brain 100%, Irish.
00:20At Carragoline Community School, home from home for 1,100 Cork teenagers,
00:25it's a time of change and rebellion.
00:30I love my phone. My phone is my baby.
00:36If there's one thing I would ban in school, it would be mobile phones.
00:39Over the course of a year, we have captured the life, the laughs,
00:43the lessons,
00:47you've an awful lot to give, girl, and I hope you realise that.
00:49and the classroom clashes,
00:51do you speak to people like that in real life?
00:52Like what?
00:53inside the school game.
00:55It's teenage life. You can't give up on them.
00:58This is a rebel education.
01:09Waking up late. You can't beat a bit of waking up late.
01:12It's week one for Principal Paul Burke,
01:15and he's already dealing with late arrivals.
01:17Get an alarm clock for Christmas.
01:18Not so keen on a fresh start.
01:20Do you still believe in Santa?
01:22Yeah.
01:23Yeah, good man. Nice one.
01:24Ask him for an alarm clock, will you?
01:26You can get one as well, then.
01:27Yeah.
01:28I'm going for the match.
01:29Where's the match?
01:30The band tree.
01:31The band tree.
01:32No, no, don't put the hood up. Take it off.
01:33Every year is different.
01:34I mean, I cannot tell you what's going to pop up this year between now and next June, July.
01:44That's part of the fun of the job, and part of the stress of the job as well, I'd have to say.
01:50Don't worry.
01:51They do know there are boundaries.
01:53Be on time and future, yeah?
01:55Sometimes we just have to keep at them.
01:57You need to get here a bit earlier.
02:00Other students may have issues at home, because you never know, you know,
02:03what a child is going through in the morning or a student is going through in the morning.
02:06You picked the right day to be late, didn't you?
02:10Don't worry.
02:13Hello there. Hello. What's up?
02:16School has always been a challenge for sixth-year student Alana,
02:21so running into Mr O'Donovan makes this first day of her biggest year a little less daunting.
02:27I'm stressed. Stressing.
02:29How are you, how was summer?
02:30Right.
02:31I turned 18 there a couple of weeks ago, so that was a big, like...
02:34So you're an adult now, like...
02:35No, I'm not.
02:36Go away, Ola.
02:38Come here, lads.
02:40I'm absolutely, like, stressing over this.
02:42You okay? You having, like, a mental breakdown as well?
02:46I've actually had, like, a season in my chest all day.
02:48Is it this class? Is that the one?
02:50Yeah.
02:51School isn't for everyone. People can say that, but it really just doesn't suit me at all.
02:55It's pure just self-control that I'm even still here. Like, I wasn't made for school.
02:59Alana today said, you know what would be great now is if you did more maths.
03:02Yeah, more maths.
03:03More maths. Yeah, love that.
03:04The teachers are really laying it on at the moment, trying to get people into gear.
03:07It's always the students who are already stressed or getting more stressed by them,
03:10so every teacher now is like, come on, lads, like, you have to start taking this seriously.
03:13All right, so get the one with the, with the no squares in it, sorry, all right,
03:17and then sub it into the quadratic, all right, so whether you get x equals or whether you get y equals.
03:21Alana has struggled with school refusal over the years and almost dropped out completely in fourth year.
03:26Well, Alana's early years in the school were pretty disastrous.
03:32Didn't care about school, never wanted to be here, never was here.
03:36It created a lot of other different issues in my life.
03:39Transition year, she was here about a quarter of the time.
03:42She was either absent or partially absent for the rest of the year.
03:46It was a cycle that I was trapped in because I wouldn't go to school because I was having a hard day, whatever.
03:52And then I'd get killed at home being like, why aren't you in school?
03:55This is truancy and absenteeism.
03:57And then I'd go to school and they'd kill me for not being in school while I was there.
04:00I kind of felt that I was failing as a mother, that she was getting detention in school.
04:06But like, I don't know what else I could do.
04:09I was gone in the morning before her, you know, back after her,
04:13like I thought she'd be in school and stuff and obviously she wasn't.
04:16Oh, flip it.
04:18One is five times minus 12.
04:20She was very down with herself and she was possibly hanging out with the wrong crowd.
04:24We just had to go after her to get her back in.
04:27You know, it was hard work.
04:29Where did we lose you, son?
04:31Um...
04:32Everywhere else.
04:33Looking out the window, that was my problem.
04:35Anything else but the maths.
04:37True, true.
04:38Having missed out on so much school, Alana has a lot of catching up to do.
04:43Time out, time out, minus.
04:44A big number.
04:46And she's going to need to dig deep into self-belief to get there.
04:49Oh, yeah.
04:50What's up?
04:51I don't have one of those maths brains.
04:53I'm so glad to speak about the maths brain.
04:55With sixth year now, I'm kind of feeling that I'm kind of losing myself again.
04:58Oh, I hate good numbers.
04:59It's myself who's putting the pressure on me.
05:00And I guess it's kind of myself telling me, oh, you can't do this, you can't do that,
05:05you won't get the points for this, you won't have the time for that, whatever.
05:08And I'm my own worst critic.
05:09Are you someone with a maths brain, son?
05:10I don't know.
05:11I have much of a school brain in general.
05:12Thanks, sir.
05:13I think we'd have to keep an eye on Alana to the bitter end here because, you know, students
05:22can revert to type.
05:23You know, that's ingrained.
05:24If you've missed a pile of school, it doesn't escape and it doesn't leave you.
05:30No longer the newbies in the school, the second years are back.
05:39With a swagger.
05:40And they're going to rule the school.
05:43But, yeah, there's a massive change there in first and second year.
05:46Like, again, like you said, first years come in, they're like, oh, yeah, yeah.
05:48It's all a novelty, like, yeah.
05:49And they're great.
05:50They're still babies in real estate.
05:51And they're babies, like, and they'll ask you loads of questions, like, and then you
05:55rock into, like, second years and you're like, right, lads, what do you do here?
05:58And they're just like, hanging from the rafters.
06:02Second years.
06:03They're horrible.
06:04Listen, all you second years, y'all, don't be walking around like you own the school.
06:08You were in first years just a couple of months ago.
06:10You're still, you're still at that level, are you?
06:13You're still a baby.
06:14Like, you're still a baby.
06:15Four years of discretion.
06:16Yeah.
06:17What is the last thing you spoke about in class when I was in the year?
06:22Drugs.
06:23Sure, no one's an angel.
06:24I'd say we put it that way.
06:25Nobody's an angel.
06:27And one second year, Caelan is really starting to get noticed.
06:32For all the wrong reasons.
06:35I don't like learning.
06:44Bring down the chair for me.
06:46Why isn't me doing this?
06:48I come to school because I kind of have to go to school, to be fair.
06:52I just like playing sports and I don't want to be stuck in school either.
06:56I'd rather be out playing matches to get out of classes as well.
07:00My bag's like broken.
07:03I can't take my French books out.
07:06School gets on my nerves.
07:09Especially some teachers as well, in some classes.
07:12I can't open my bag.
07:15Why not?
07:16Because, you know, the thing covering the zip.
07:19Yeah, come on.
07:20Yeah, show me.
07:21Caelan is a challenging student.
07:28I wasn't in one day.
07:30In every aspect.
07:32Kind of defiant sometimes, you know?
07:35Miss.
07:36I fixed my bag.
07:38Très bien, OK.
07:39Miss and Bo, my French teacher.
07:42Sometimes I could get on my Miss and Bo, but half the time I wouldn't really.
07:47Feminine pluriel, Mary?
07:49It's not the easiest class to behave in either, because I just don't get the language at all.
07:56Page 43.
07:57What's that in English?
07:58Page 43.
08:00Students are teenagers.
08:02They're going to act up here and there.
08:04Where we would have a concern is where there's a pattern builds up.
08:08Everyone pays like 110.
08:10Everything.
08:11He does everything.
08:13Except what he's meant to be doing.
08:15And when it comes to livening up a boring French class, Caelan's never short of willing
08:20accomplices.
08:21Stop rubbing my toys, Caelan.
08:24I wouldn't do that.
08:26One wrecks it, but there could be another 28, 29 who are suffering.
08:30That's where I would take a dim view.
08:33Shhh.
08:34Kaelan silence.
08:35What?
08:36Can we give up on the student?
08:38No.
08:39We just have to keep trying.
08:40Keep trying.
08:41How do I skip?
08:42Put it up.
08:43Clothing pattern.
08:44Tread.
08:45Cheetah.
08:46The other kind of bird.
08:47Leopard.
08:48Transition year is an important time that helps students gain confidence before the pressures
09:02of leaving cert kicks in.
09:03But let's be honest, it's also seen as a bit of a dot.
09:08Though maybe not in Mr. Burke's eyes.
09:11If you get it right, you point it down.
09:13If you don't know it, you put it up and pass it.
09:15It's a real mixing pot of activities which benefits every student once they buy into it.
09:22It's like a dog.
09:25It's like a wild dog.
09:26It's like a wild dog.
09:27No, like a wild dog.
09:28Oh, hyenas.
09:29No, kind of.
09:30The other word, it's over.
09:31It's a coyote.
09:32It's a coyote.
09:33It's a coyote, it's a coyote.
09:34It's a coyote, it's a coyote.
09:35Bring that in, it's like, of course.
09:37This is my first time seeing Adele all week, I swear.
09:43Bro, I literally saw you on Monday.
09:46For one fourth year, Adele, TY offered new opportunities she was determined not to miss.
09:52A, B, C, D.
09:53That's where we wanna be.
09:54I feel like transition is a prize for, like, everything we've done.
09:58Because, like, first it's Herja.
10:00It was a lot of work.
10:01Look at the total screen.
10:02Herja's 45.
10:03Mine's 28.
10:04What's yours?
10:05The total screen.
10:06Oh.
10:07What is it?
10:08Oh, 58.
10:0958.
10:10It's a bridge for us to, like, take a break.
10:13She was adamant about it.
10:15So I said, okay, go, because it will be a good experience for her.
10:18It really boosts their confidence.
10:20I didn't want her to do the transition.
10:22I wanted her to go straight to fifth class.
10:25She can finish school quick and move on with her life.
10:28What time is it?
10:29I wanna buy a cookie.
10:30Can we get me to get a cookie?
10:31Yeah.
10:32But if Adele is to convince her dad that she made the right decision, she needs to clear
10:37this next hurdle.
10:39And it's a biggie.
10:40Today is the junior set results day.
10:43I'm shaking.
10:44Like, I'm so nervous.
10:45I'm really nervous because my marks, they went absolutely horrendous.
10:59She can do it.
11:01If somebody else can get that 5A, you two, you can get a 5A.
11:04My mom, my dad, I feel like they're expecting me to get really good results.
11:09Because she has the ability.
11:11She doesn't want to disappoint me.
11:12We're about to see you give me some results.
11:14Even if I do get a bad score, like, I'll probably just be disappointed and cry.
11:19Would I hurt her?
11:20I need a page.
11:22Coming off!
11:23Kaylin's pushing a few more buttons.
11:28Good pick to get done today
11:33Please please press you.
11:34Please reinforce.
11:40Always discreet.
11:41Strong protection.
11:42Incredible discretion.
11:45Always discreet.
11:46Strong protection.
11:48Incredible discretion.
11:49It's D-Day for Adele and her peers.
11:55Junior Cert results day is an incredible milestone in the school calendar.
12:02There's going to be the students who do grand, and then always there are some students who are disappointed.
12:07It's how you weather the storm that defines it.
12:09You need to climb up in your third-year meets from last year, okay?
12:13You're an awesome student in Junior Cert class.
12:17That was the time I was most stressed.
12:20I had a literal mental breakdown over my exams after.
12:34What's happening?
12:35Wait, I'm going to hide me!
12:41Wait.
12:42Oh, my God!
12:43Oh, my God!
12:44Oh, my God!
12:45Oh, my God!
12:46Oh, my God!
12:47Oh, my God!
12:48I got no higher merit.
12:49In English, I got a higher merit.
12:51In high-level maths, I got no higher merit.
12:53In history, I got a higher merit.
12:55In geography, I got merit.
12:56In French, I got merit.
12:58I mean, higher merit.
12:59Business, I got a higher merit.
13:00From Mexico, I got a higher merit.
13:01And science, I got merit.
13:02That is so good at that.
13:04No, my God!
13:05Oh, my God.
13:06Oh, my God!
13:07Oh, my God!
13:08Oh, my God!
13:09What can I say, here?
13:10That's, uh, all those higher merits.
13:12Well done you, that's amazing.
13:14You'll be very close.
13:15Thank you!
13:16Your parents are going to have gone away.
13:17It looks like Adele's dad's doubts have been blown out of the water.
13:24Congratulations, okay?
13:27Congratulations. Dad is happy.
13:32And these parents couldn't be prouder.
13:34I see the result. Everything is perfect. So I'm okay.
13:38So now I let her do her own thing because I can see that she's disciplined.
13:42She knows what to do. I don't have to be a policeman.
13:46They think she asked me to carry a bag. I have to carry it.
13:50She's the queen today. She's the queen.
14:03It's not good. I'm going to go full reset. Oh my God. I give up.
14:07Please have staples. Out of staples. Option three. Jammed.
14:10There's a paper there. We're in action.
14:13One cargo line teacher might struggle with big tech, but when it comes to the small screen, he's a bit of a legend.
14:20My name is Tygo Donovan and I'm a Formula One driver for McLaren F1 racing.
14:27With more than 600,000 followers across social media.
14:31I feel great.
14:32When I started making my content for social media, I was kind of hoping maybe this will make them realise that their teachers are exactly the same as these people.
14:39Can we, you know, draw their attention back towards us a little bit?
14:42So there's no point in putting all the chemicals all over your lovely school books and companies.
14:48These are, you know, people in front of me, not on the screen, that are worth looking up to.
14:53Let's take our phones out and let's scan it.
15:00Today, Mr O'Donovan is giving a workshop on a topic that goes right to the heart of teenage lives.
15:06We have to talk about your mental health and without a doubt, the biggest factor for your generation is your online mental health as well.
15:13You know, for a lot of these kids, they've had a phone in their hands since the age of nine or ten.
15:18To be without their phone, it feels like a part of their body is missing.
15:21So it's trying to teach them, well, if you're going to be using your phone, how to use this safely and how to manage it as well.
15:28You know, those negative comments that can appear on someone's feed and really fester in their minds.
15:33This 13-year-old girl killed herself over words on a screen.
15:39This text message came in from someone she considered a friend.
15:45They are not just words on a screen anymore.
15:48It is massively impacting this generation. There's no ifs or buts about it.
15:52It's a completely different world they live in. Like, they live in their pockets now.
15:57I love my phone. My phone is my baby.
16:00Look, I can't live without my alarm. I can't live without Snapchat.
16:04At this age, if you're not doing something with your day, you just feel like it was such a waste.
16:08Yeah.
16:09And I feel like when I'm on my phone, I'm doing something.
16:11Yeah.
16:12What I always tend to notice when I talk to other creators, they always think about the four or five comments that are negative.
16:18They might get a hundred positive ones, but one negative one is the one that they remember.
16:23And we know that impacts us.
16:25We know what it feels like when someone says something nasty about us and we don't like it.
16:29But if you take away the negative things from your life online, especially if there are accounts that you don't know in real life.
16:36If you're following someone who only posts negative stuff, you can unfollow them and it will make your life a little bit better afterwards.
16:43I feel like people get like more just because they're behind a screen.
16:47They get more like bigger to say things.
16:50And then when you go up to them and you confront them, they.
16:53They're acting like, I don't know what happens.
16:55I didn't say that.
16:56They can say whatever they want behind the phone, but when you actually confront them in person, they don't really know what to say anymore.
17:02Last part.
17:03And this is the one that annoys me the most in class because you can hear it when people don't have their phones in silence and go ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
17:10Turn off your notifications.
17:11That's your apps trying to get your attention to go look at them.
17:15If they take away one piece of information that helps them just look after their mental health because of all the online stuff.
17:20That's all you really want from it is that they just pick one or two things that they can implement for their own life.
17:26Okay.
17:27Third years.
17:28Thank you very much.
17:29Best of luck.
17:30Alana is a Leaving Cert student with a poor history of school attendance.
17:43But there is one place where she can leave her stress at the door.
17:47You have to make about a thousand sandwiches.
17:50Oh, stop.
17:51I hate it.
17:52I won't even make one at home for myself.
17:54Oh, no.
17:55You'd be formalized, wouldn't you?
17:56You'd never want to make summons again.
17:58Cork's Penny Dinners is a voluntary service that feeds the homeless.
18:02And it came into Alana's life just when she needed it most.
18:08So I used to actually just sit on the streets of Cargilline.
18:11I'd be there with my hood up in my uniform, waiting for school to be over.
18:15And I was just pure miserable.
18:17I was crying as well.
18:18And people were walking past me like I wasn't there.
18:20And then having that realization of like, this is what homeless people feel like.
18:24If you think about it too much, you can get fear suppressed over it, but people do manage.
18:27At that worrying point, Alana's self-esteem had hit rock bottom.
18:32Until the school arranged for her to do TY work experience with the service.
18:36I was fully convinced that I was a horrible person, because I was getting killed at home in school.
18:39Everyone was telling me that I was a failure.
18:41It's this I was at.
18:42A good deed done for the day, every day.
18:44It's a pure escape for me.
18:45Especially this year, you'd be really stressed.
18:47But when you come in here, so you can feel it, it's very relaxed.
18:50Everyone's very friendly.
18:51It's good for your lights, you know?
18:53Every time I step in the door, it just feels like home to me.
18:56It's made such an impact on my life.
18:58Tea, coffee?
18:59No.
19:00Go by yourself.
19:01We just want the best for our life, you know what I mean?
19:04The best thing that ever happened to me in this place.
19:06Yeah, and it'll make you very self-sufficient as well, you know?
19:09I had never gotten, since primary school, anything positive in relation to school.
19:15And Katrina gave me back the sheet, and she gave me all fives, and then the little note
19:20at the bottom.
19:21The note was like, what can they improve on?
19:23And she just says, Alana should keep doing what she's doing.
19:26And I won't lie, I did cry when she gave it to me.
19:29I don't know why it hit me so hard.
19:31It was like, I just wasn't expecting anything that positive.
19:33Yeah, normal ones.
19:34Huh?
19:35Normal ones.
19:36The motivation was just what Alana needed to get her back to school.
19:39It took time, and it took effort, and it took patience.
19:42If I didn't do something, I wouldn't be sitting here today.
19:44I wouldn't be in the school.
19:45I wouldn't, I don't know where I'd be, but it wouldn't be positive.
19:48I convinced the whole country's half-traumatized from the leaving start.
19:51And now everyone at Penny Dinners is majorly invested in Alana's future.
19:56I wasn't the best in history, but I used to bring the book into bed, and I got there.
20:01Really?
20:02I did.
20:03Yeah, you have to kind of, I trick myself into learning some things.
20:05Like, I just try to make it a game or something, you know?
20:08And we're so proud of her.
20:09Oh, my God.
20:10You couldn't be but proud of her.
20:14Don't forget this stuff.
20:15Oh, my God, yeah.
20:16That's my mother.
20:17She's the typical teenager, like, full of stress, because they're facing a very, very big exam.
20:21I think it's all in there, and it'll come out in her exams.
20:32I'm in firstly.
20:33It's not just French class that's lost in translation for Caelan.
20:36Ah, so we're going to go back to her, um, sir.
20:40We're going to go back to her sheep, yes?
20:42I left my locker key at home.
20:43Mr. Conan wrote a note in my drowned saying I can't bring my books to class.
20:46A character is what I'd say about him.
20:49Pure rogue.
20:50He certainly has the ability.
20:52There's a level of confidence bordering on arrogance.
20:55I need a page.
20:56Times, yes, it can be frustrating.
20:57Ah, you know.
20:58Hacking the maggot and stuff like that.
21:00A good bit to get done today, lads, so just, um, tell me anything about workhouses.
21:08Just talking out of turn, and, like, sitting with the lads in class,
21:11because, like, it would just be good crack-talking to them.
21:14Just sit here and don't write so.
21:16The mattress is so boring.
21:17All right, lads, do you have any copy, Caelan?
21:20No.
21:21He said he's not giving me a page.
21:22I can get him a page.
21:23All right, can you give him a page?
21:24You're getting in trouble quite a few times.
21:26There's certain behaviour that's expected, there's certain behaviour that's been tolerated,
21:29but he needs to play the game as well.
21:31OK, so, can anybody tell me anything, lads, about workhouses?
21:35Caelan's tipping point, really, is that they could kind of just spiral out of control
21:39and just give up, and that's not what you don't want.
21:42Sir, can I go get my eyes for the listening campaign?
21:45No, no, sir.
21:46Sir, when's the next football match?
21:48Lads, come on, books.
21:49Give exams for you, then.
21:50Come on.
21:51Can you watch a movie?
21:52Nah, come on, Caelan.
21:53You've plenty, plenty to be doing.
21:57With his school record going in the wrong direction, Caelan's now firmly on the principal's radar.
22:04The wording I would use with Caelan at the moment is quite busy.
22:08Teachers are trying their level best to reward him for good behaviour,
22:12but unfortunately, at the moment, the negative behaviour is outweighing those positive comments.
22:17Yeah, but Colin, to be fair now, it wasn't my fault. I didn't know about the door.
22:21I literally put my hand on it.
22:22Yeah, you can go to the toilet, Daniel.
22:24No, he didn't.
22:26He said don't sit down.
22:28It was kind of annoying getting in trouble, too, because it just gets annoying being called
22:34into my earhead's office all the time.
22:36Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.
22:37Lads, come on.
22:38Mr. Troy passed me.
22:39He's carrying death staring me.
22:40He don't care.
22:41Don't talk to them.
22:42They need to get a bit of work done.
22:43Nice.
22:44Laughing, shouting, making irrelevant comments.
22:52Hannah, why were you dotting signs this morning, anyway?
22:56Lads, come on, come on, come on.
22:58Noise down, keep the noise down.
23:00Silly stuff.
23:02I've had attention tomorrow.
23:04Oh, I swear.
23:06Coming up, we meet the BFFs with a slapstick approach to school.
23:10She bangs my head into the letterbox.
23:12Always discreet, strong protection, incredible discretion.
23:24Always discreet, strong protection, incredible discretion.
23:33The trouble with the school day is that it tends to drag.
23:37You get such a variety of characters coming into the building.
23:41You know, some of them will shake your hand.
23:43Some of them will high-five you.
23:44Some of them will be looking at their shoes.
23:46Some will be extremely nervous.
23:49And it's no place to stamp your own style.
23:52Lose any non-uniform tops now, lads, the hoodies.
23:54I know it's a pain.
23:55But we're getting there, we're getting there.
23:57Make sure you take them off though, please.
23:59I think I'll start selling these, get a few quid for these.
24:01School of funds.
24:02I'd like to think of here we're firm but fair.
24:05Lisa, where's the Himalayas?
24:07Where's Nepal?
24:08China?
24:09For junior cert student Giselle, school is just one laugh after another.
24:17Giselle, take out a piece of paper, come on.
24:20Giselle slapped me earlier and then Mr. Looney seen me slap her on the head but I got in trouble.
24:24She banged my head into the letterbox.
24:26It's not that I don't like school, it's just, I just don't really have like an interest for it.
24:33And in BFF's Sadie, Giselle has found the perfect partner in crime.
24:38We just talk a lot.
24:40We talk and we, we like, it's not even that we mess, it's just we're loud when we're together.
24:45Put that down!
24:46No, teachers don't like us together.
24:49This dynamic duo have been glued together since junior infants.
24:53So I remember Giselle going to school, her first day of school and Sadie was there.
24:57And I think Giselle was just besotted from the first minute she saw her and that was it.
25:02Name a macronutrient.
25:04What?
25:06I can only imagine what it's like in class with Sadie and Giselle together and when they start going
25:10because there is kind of, um, there's serious energy with the two of them.
25:17I think Giselle likes the crack in school more than the academic side of it.
25:21She's very practical.
25:22She, she likes learning stuff that she needs to learn.
25:27Oh, she distracts me the most.
25:29For sure.
25:30Very evil.
25:31Okay.
25:32Sir, would you tell her stop singing?
25:33It's so annoying.
25:34Yeah, it's really annoying.
25:35Yeah, it is.
25:36I've not heard that.
25:37You can't sing, Giselle.
25:38I'm sorry.
25:39Have you not heard that one on X Factor?
25:40It's like, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo.
25:42It's like a really bad singer.
25:43Shush!
25:44Yeah, yeah.
25:45Shush!
25:46Lads.
25:47Stop it.
25:48Eleven million Jews lived in Europe.
25:49I don't think the kids take the junior cert as seriously as maybe they once did.
25:52I remember being up the wall stressed about the junior cert.
25:54But those stress levels just don't seem to be there.
25:56I'm stressed about trying to get them to learn.
25:58What would you rather?
25:59Get shot or go to concentration camp?
26:00Be shot.
26:01I would not like to go.
26:02So, 400 Jews and Jews alone.
26:05It is stressful because you want them to do well, you know.
26:09You want to make sure that the work you put in is good as well.
26:11Over the three years, you know, you don't want to make sure it's a waste.
26:13You want to make sure you've got everything covered properly.
26:15Would you all just be quiet?
26:17You're so annoying.
26:18Oh, my God.
26:19Oh, my God.
26:20You get so moody out of sometimes, sir.
26:22I don't get moody.
26:23You do?
26:24I don't get moody.
26:25But with the junior cert looming, these classroom clowns need to get serious.
26:32Some people take it, like, so seriously, but, like, I think the leaving starts to be more important than that.
26:37Give me some food.
26:39What happened next?
26:40Give me food.
26:41She's well able, I just don't think she cares.
26:43Ferguson, take the whole pack of them!
26:45Chill out.
26:46What is it?
26:47Custard cream.
26:48Custard, oh, Mank.
26:49Mank!
26:50You stop bringing custard creams in.
26:51You're going to turn into a custard cream.
26:53Okay, bye now.
26:54Have a great day.
26:59Right.
27:00Fourth years, how are we?
27:02Minding their heads is a massive issue for teenagers in the online world.
27:07Today, Mr O'Donovan is challenging his fourth years to use their phones to promote positive mental health.
27:13Your challenge right now is to come up with some sort of way that we can talk about mental health for young people through a piece of content.
27:23Mental health is such a difficult topic for teenagers to talk about in the first place.
27:28There's a huge amount of danger around social media and how teenagers use it.
27:32It is massively impacting this generation.
27:35There's no ifs or buts about it.
27:36Okay, let's break into our groups.
27:38For this project, the students are broken into two teams.
27:42It's the girls versus the boys.
27:44Okay.
27:45I want to do a bad gym.
27:46You feel me?
27:47No, because a lot of people use gym to help with their mental health.
27:50Of course.
27:51Of course lads are like, let's talk about the gym.
27:53Let's get into the gym.
27:54Let's live some ways to talk about mental health.
27:56Men find it really difficult to talk about their mental health.
27:59Yeah, it's a case of just speaking up and then the lads wouldn't take the piss out of you.
28:03Maybe teenage girls have more...
28:06Maturity.
28:07Maturity.
28:0829% of adolescents describe their mental health as bad or very bad.
28:1311% reported attempting suicide in their lifetimes.
28:17The girls quickly tune in to their chosen idea.
28:22Do you know what the trend is?
28:23Like, if you ask me how I'm doing, I'd say I was fine.
28:26Everyone says they're fine, but if you ask me on a deeper level,
28:29I feel like everyone would, like, relate to that.
28:32Oh, I've seen that trend, isn't it?
28:33Oh, how are you doing?
28:34I'm fine.
28:35But if you ask me on a deeper level, yeah, I get that trend.
28:37That's a good shout.
28:38So, hold on, are you doing that as slides?
28:40Are you doing, like, photos?
28:41The girls smashed it out of the park.
28:42They were like, yeah, we're going to do this trend,
28:44we're going to go in these different areas in the school
28:46and this is what we're going to talk about.
28:49So what are we actually doing?
28:50Like, what are we doing?
28:52We're not...
28:53But the boys are still struggling to agree on their approach.
28:56Alright, so...
28:58But finally, they get onto the right track.
29:01I'm thinking Subway Surfers on the team.
29:03No, that's actually a good idea.
29:05I always watch the Subway Surfers.
29:07You see these clips on TikTok where half of the screen is this game
29:11and half of the screen is the video that, you know,
29:14they're actually trying to learn information from.
29:17The lads' concept was really clever.
29:19It really is what teenage boys would watch.
29:24The challenge now is for both groups to turn their ideas
29:27into effective social media videos.
29:30Overall, with both groups, they've done a really good job
29:33from what I can see so far.
29:34So I'm looking forward to seeing how the finishing touches go.
29:37For reluctant student Alana, the fear is that she may revert to her old behaviours
29:49as the stress of the Leaving Cert grows.
29:51So, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
29:54Sunday start from 9 and finish at a 10 o'clock slot.
29:57Depending if you're someone...
29:59Oh, it's just very stressed around, it's very anxious.
30:01All the teachers are, like, putting on the stress at the moment,
30:03but, like, I'm really feeling it.
30:04And, like, there's not enough hours in the day for everything I want to get done.
30:07Hey Alana, how's it going?
30:08But there's one door that's always open for her.
30:10How are you getting on?
30:12Are you under pressure?
30:13Oh, desperately, yeah.
30:14It's a lot, like, every day.
30:16Just every teacher is laying on, like, four hours of homework.
30:19I'm doing it for 10 hours a day.
30:20Like, I get here at 8 o'clock in the morning and I'm already studying then.
30:23And then I'm here until 6 o'clock at night.
30:25OK.
30:26My brain's just going all the time.
30:27There's, like, a million things happening.
30:28Yeah.
30:29I'll just be in class trying to listen, and there's just, like,
30:30in the back of my head, I'm like, I have to do this, I have to do that,
30:32I have to do this in the other class now, and...
30:34Yeah.
30:35It's insane.
30:36See, but it's just getting you into a space where
30:38you get the very best, you know, for you.
30:40And I'm really genuine about that bit.
30:42This is about you.
30:43Mm.
30:44And nobody else.
30:45Mm.
30:46Because nobody's going to live your life except you.
30:47Thanks very much.
30:48Really appreciate that.
30:49You're welcome.
30:50It's very good, Ian.
30:51Absolutely welcome.
30:52You talked to me, would you?
30:53Yeah, I will do.
30:54The worry is that as the going gets tough,
30:56Alana may get going.
30:58We're at it long enough now to not to become complacent,
31:02saying, oh, well, she will turn up every day
31:04and she will do everything.
31:05It's important every single day.
31:07That we're on top of it, just to make sure that she's here.
31:18Detention has become part and parcel of Cailin's school routine.
31:22I came in seven minutes late into the class,
31:24but there's a load of people behind me,
31:26and then my teacher wanted to talk to me at the end of class.
31:28Then she was giving out about how I was late.
31:30And she went to my ear head about me, so I'm on a detention.
31:33Just talking, really.
31:35But it wasn't, like, out of turn, really.
31:37I was just talking to the lads next to me.
31:39Hey, are you on detention?
31:41I am.
31:42I am.
31:43I know you are.
31:44Right.
31:45Yeah.
31:46Isn't your first row DOA either, is it?
31:48What's your name?
31:49Tomorrow's from science.
31:50Last week is from messing in my computer class
31:52than I can remember the one before.
31:54And I've just had some Thursday detentions as well,
31:57but that's from being late and being out.
32:00But with it not having the desired effect on Cailin's behaviour,
32:04Principal Burke is considering more severe options.
32:08If he doesn't pull his socks up,
32:10I'm probably going to have to get Mum in here.
32:13My Mum, she'd just tell me to cop on a bit.
32:15I wouldn't like to get in trouble with my Dad anyway.
32:18He'd be the worst for us.
32:24No, no.
32:25Right.
32:30Shh, shh, shh.
32:31Listening, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.
32:32Listening, shh, shh.
32:33I want you to describe the music.
32:35I'll give you...
32:36Mr. McGrath has lived life from both sides
32:38in Carragallion Community School.
32:40The former student is now a teacher.
32:44If anyone says crescendo, I will throw them in a bin.
32:46Crescendo?
32:47I went here myself as well, so I left in 2013.
32:50I wasn't really sure when I left if I wanted to be a teacher or not.
32:53I will crescendo ye and throw you in a bin seriously. Oh, Mr. McGraw. He's a lovely man. So good
33:00Almost like a friend like almost like a friend. Yeah
33:05What did I just say not to write during and the first thing you write down is crescendo
33:10He never gets mad. He's like one of those teachers. Yeah, this is chill. Okay
33:15Who else wrote crescendo just put your hands up?
33:18You need a bit of crack like. So lads, what did I ask you not to do?
33:23Right. I love him. Yeah, I'm very nice
33:26No, and he was great in school when he was here as a student. He was full of energy
33:30It's always up for a bit of fun. I just remember Andy in the musical those years ago wearing a fedora
33:37That sticks out in my mind
33:43What's the thing first? This year, Mr. McGrath is taking on the mammoth task of producing the school musical
33:49And he's drawing on his own time in the spotlight for inspiration
33:53Hello, good morning. How are we?
33:54Like it was just like a rush show that kind of way. Yeah, it was amazing. I loved every minute of it
33:59And any particular roles we are interested in coach both in like I really came into my own
34:05I think like I was quite enough students to be honest with you like, you know
34:09And and that just the confidence I got out of it was outstanding
34:13Like I loved I just realized I loved being on the stage loved it so much
34:17Morning. Hi. Hello
34:19Don't look so nervous. It's grand. Yeah, it's not Broadway, lads
34:24The production this year is High School Musical so and in terms of how big it is
34:28It's actually fairly big. It's kind of one of the biggest events in the school year really to be honest with you
34:31Yeah, this will be the highlight for them like 100%
34:34Sorry
34:34High School Musical? Well, you know what they say. Do what you know
34:38Monday life was broken
34:40Well done, Arian. Excellent. Good man yourself. Well done
34:42It's a proper process, you know, and they get really into it. It kind of builds up the hype a bit more
34:49After acing her junior start results, fourth-year student Adele is hoping to score big again
34:55She set her sights on a lead role in the musical
34:59I'm going for Sharpay or Gabriela because their roles I'm very interested in because I've been watching
35:05I used to musical since I was younger
35:07I like have to get my game on like I'm very scared right now
35:11Okay, will you move into the center? Thank you so much. Okay
35:15For her parents Adele's ambition is hardly headline news
35:18I'll go for Sharpay
35:20Okay
35:21She's afraid of failure
35:22That's Adele. She's afraid of failure and yeah, she panics
35:26When you're good and ready. I mean when you're 16, you know the smallest thing could be the most important thing ever
35:31I always say that the importance of the musical is just again for self-confidence
35:35In terms of TY in general, like bringing kids out of the shell
35:38But I think the show has a huge part to play in that
35:41Life's better on Saturn
35:44Got to break this pattern
35:46Of floating away
35:48Find something worth saving
35:53It's all for the taking
35:55I always say I'll be better on Saturn
35:59None of this matters
36:01Dreaming of Saturn
36:03I'll be better off
36:04Woo!
36:05Well done!
36:06Gorgeous
36:08Where are we going?
36:09Thanks guys
36:10Excellent, excellent, excellent
36:11But has Adele done enough to land the lead?
36:14What is it like?
36:15Yeah
36:16I kinda have two
36:17Two, yeah
36:18Two, yeah
36:19Definitely two
36:20That's gonna be a really tough choice
36:21I think to be honest
36:22Coming up
36:23You'd be king of the tosses
36:24Are you f***ing serious?
36:25Alana gets inspired by a young offender
36:28If you need help, ask for f***ing help
36:35Always discreet
36:37Strong protection
36:38Incredible discretion
36:39Always discreet
36:42Strong protection
36:43Incredible discretion
36:44Don't
36:49Giselle and her best friend Sadie
36:51Are carrying the burden of being in an exam year
36:54A bit too lightly
36:55Giselle is Sadie?
36:56Yeah
36:57But right now
36:58The biggest hurdle for Giselle
36:59Will be bringing her class work up to speed
37:0033
37:01That made you so bad
37:02Like I'm studying a bit but like
37:03I just
37:04I go up to my room
37:05I open my box
37:06I just turn on my TV
37:07So it looks like I'm studying
37:09F***ing
37:22Oh
37:24She's lots of brains
37:25She's no problem academically
37:26But it's really
37:28The sitting down studying part
37:29Wouldn't be ideal
37:30How the f*** do I get 33?
37:31studying part wouldn't be ideal you know she has said to me mom why would i be learning this
37:38when am i going to use that yeah giselle seems to be tired or wrecked quite often she's always
37:48yawning or the head is down or the eyes are kind of glassed over but i think that's she's nuts in
37:53terms of the amount of training she does like she's an incredible athlete i don't really do
37:57school work to be honest i think i take like my priorities will be running and training
38:06i'm just going to show you a little wall of fame here she's all started at lessics when she was
38:12about six and since then she loved it so this is from 2009 under 7 60 meter um sprint as she got
38:23older she just wanted to focus on the hurdles so that has been her main priority for the last
38:29couple of years there's loads as monster medals there's national medals all ireland there's been
38:34a big collection of them she would be top three in ireland so she's at the highest level at her age
38:40my plan is i want to get a scholarship over to america i'd like to be good at running
38:47and i also need to be good in school to get a scholarship
38:55giselle is unreal athletic she doesn't give herself like the credit but she's like phenomenal
39:03i train five days a week and i do the gym like strength and conditioning with my coach
39:11i find it hard to kind of wrap my head around the level of dedication at that age i think it's
39:15incredibly impressive what does the study night look like tonight so i can't i have a match on
39:19training giselle now is heading into her junior cert um i don't know how seriously she's taking that
39:25side of things okay so you've got loads of sports there's loads of sports kind of impacting the
39:29study a small bit is it yeah i do know that she wants to hopefully get a scholarship to study in
39:34the united states i think the point she's missing is it's an academic program with a sideline of
39:41athletics okay would you not sacrifice the sports for like a week or two no no never all right okay
39:48and i really hope she gets there because she's going to have to put some work into it
39:52athletically she's doing that but she's going to have to put so much more work into her academics
39:57in order that she's accepted onto the program
40:00i've had attention tomorrow with cailin still playing up in the classroom principal burke has
40:10had to take the serious step of calling in his mother i suppose it's a little bit upsetting that
40:17we even have to come in in the first place obviously you don't want your child getting in any trouble
40:22he's the kind of child unfortunately that needs natural consequences
40:29there's enough there now for me to have a very strong word with that boy
40:33morning how are you how are you good likewise
40:40he's in a different room really if i'm involved
40:42that with mum before you know mum's a past pupil like we're not in not in a bad way though
40:47not in a bad way how are you good are you well we have a few issues obviously we need to talk
40:52about yeah look it's disruption that's the stuff that needs to stop but you know you often hear
40:58what they call class clown like you're not the class clown but when you're acting up for the lads
41:02it's great buzz in there all right let's see i'm the man they're not sitting there you are
41:07and you're sitting with me all the other lads parents were called in as well though yeah
41:12whether they're not sitting with me you're the only fellow sitting with me sport what do you do
41:19curling football and soccer oh for the school or for the club in town there both both watch that
41:26as well because they're privileges inside in the school if you do suddenly start acting like the
41:31maggot really badly we've removed that privilege you're not you're not representing this school
41:35on a sporting pitch this is on you now this is over to you
41:43if he's not going to be following the rules there's going to be repercussions
41:47i think the whole dar team being a privilege that was very hard for kaylin to digest
41:52i'd say it did shock kaylin a little bit try and cop on see can i be quiet
41:59that's all really
42:06balancing the banter and the books can be a bit tricky
42:09and today principal burke has invited a very special guest to chat to the students about the
42:14pressures they face how are we shane casey's into the aka billy murphy from the young offenders you'd be
42:20king of the tossers are you serious king of the tossers shane casey is the original young offender
42:31both on screen and off liable to say anything off especially things i can't say so students love him
42:40i left school at 16 years of age 16 years of age a boy in a man's world so it was all because of a
42:48misunderstanding that i left school i'm really hoping alana manny could come in today because some of the
42:54things shane will say can really help a person like alana now my life went because of a choice
43:03for me when i was a teenager it was very hard to navigate things because i had a lot going on
43:09let it go let it go let it go doors were slammed in my face so i had a big problem and i thought
43:20if they think i'm a scumbag in school i might as well off and leave
43:25so i did how could i have fixed the problem that i had this is the main part of the workshop
43:34it's resilience and communication but i'm kind of saying mind yourself if you're having a
43:39shit time go and talk to somebody about it would you help somebody if they were in that position
43:44generally hands up if you'll help your friend if they need help everybody hands down hands up if
43:51you'll ask for help if you need help five people put their hands up of a class of 50 is that good
44:00enough you've all said you'd help your friends that's that's really will you do me a favor will
44:08you stand up on your chair and tell the rest of your class if you need help ask for help alana knows
44:15better than most the importance of reaching out if you need help ask for help don't be embarrassed
44:23ask for help don't be embarrassed ask for help is it important the benefit of being resilient is just
44:31not giving up and if you feel like giving up asking for help or going to the right people that's that's
44:37what i'm just trying to relate to them you know as well when i was a kid like the way adults talk down
44:41to like yeah even my family knows still don't know how to talk to me like they're like you're
44:44this year i just have to trudge boy and succeed at the same time and in the back of my mind i'm
44:48trying to like get myself together figure out who i am get my priorities straight it's going to be
44:52a difficult one not going too well so far yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it's no gang signs it's a cork sign
45:03next time adele finds out her musical face gabriella troy sharpie there can only be one front runner
45:11i get at the end of class will cailin raise his game so that he doesn't lose his sporting privileges
45:17why if you do yourself a favor and i will be quiet i said why plus 19. we meet luke
45:23whose leaving start struggles are particularly hard oh my god i'm not putting crazy amounts of
45:29pressure on myself because i know if i do i'll get too stressed
45:35now we've a clash of chalk and cheese when lucy stays with caitlin jenner and
45:39new living with lucy next on virgin media play and one
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