Synopsis
Our class return for one final adventure. Reflecting on the past 100 years, they venture beyond, into a future filled with virtual classrooms and artificial intelligence.
- Programme: Back in Time for School
- Episode: 8
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2019
- Sociology
Licence: ERA Licence required
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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Episode 1 | Back in Time for School
Episode 1 | Back in Time for School
Fifteen pupils and three teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure to discover how much life at school has changed. The class start ...
Episode 2 | Back in Time for School
Episode 2 | Back in Time for School
Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the interwar years. They learn bizarre new languages, test th...
Episode 3 | Back in Time for School
Episode 3 | Back in Time for School
Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the 40s and 50s - deportment, debate and even dancing are on ...
Episode 4 | Back in Time for School
Episode 4 | Back in Time for School
Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. In the swinging 60s, the class experience bricklaying, typing, cooking and eve...
Episode 5 | Back in Time for School
Episode 5 | Back in Time for School
The class enters the experimental 1970s. They rewrite the rule book and learn weird and wonderful lessons as the free spirit of the era c...
Episode 6 | Back in Time for School
Episode 6 | Back in Time for School
The class embrace the new world of the 1980s. With robots, early computers and synths, the kids get to grips with Britain's new high-tech...
Episode 7 | Back in Time for School
Episode 7 | Back in Time for School
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