Christine makes a series of extremely bad decisions leaving her job and her future hanging in the balance. Kacey Barry makes a welcome return to the school but Gabriella is furious to find herself pushed out of the limelight.
s09e01 - Beyond The Call Of Duty
s09e02 - Sue Spark's Bad Day
s09e03 - The Apprentice
s09e04 - Text Rated
s09e05 - Crossing The Line
s09e06 - Grantly's Perfect Poetry
s09e07 - Lies Mothers Tell
s09e08 - Don't Mention The War
s09e09 - Father Figure
s09e10 - Happy Ever After
s09e11 - Bad Girl
s09e12 - Sugar Daddy
s09e13 - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
s09e14 - Suspicious Minds
s09e15 - Out Of Bounds
s09e16 - A Bolt From The Blue
s09e17 - No Where to Run
s09e18 - Dynasty's Choice
s09e19 - End of The Road
s09e20 - New Highs, New Lows
Waterloo Road Comprehensive is on the scrap heap. It can be found very near the bottom of every league table there is. Its despondent teachers have given up trying to make a difference as they struggle to cope with their own personal problems as well as their nightmare day jobs. When the current Headmaster has a nervous breakdown, Jack Rimmer is reluctantly thrown into the hot seat. He recruits optimistic, educational zealot Andrew Treneman who wants to give up his comfortable private school job to bring the benefits of his elite educational experience to Waterloo Road.
Together with feisty Guidance Head Kim Campbell the three teachers - all committed in their very different ways - set to turn round Waterloo Road, painful step by painful step. Meanwhile English teacher Tom Clarkson's life is in a mess. He's about to be married to live-in girlfriend and fellow teacher Lorna Dickey and can't face telling her he is no longer in love. But much worse, he has fallen for Lorna's closest friend - drama teacher Izzie Redpath.
Man-eating French teacher Steph Haydock is delighted Jack Rimmer has been promoted - she's always fancied him but now he's headmaster, his powerful, manly charms are impossible to resist.