Series 1 (2014–15) The first series was filmed at
Conyers School in the town of
Yarm near
Middlesbrough. It showed the Year 7 classes experiencing secondary school for the first time and featured some of the challenges they may face in later life. The first series was made up of 15x30 minute episodes and began to be broadcast on 3 September 2014. The final episode of the series was aired on 10 December 2014. In 2015, it was announced that a special episode would be added to the first series. This aired on 7 September 2015 and was a catch-up episode that saw the cameras return to see what had happened to the Year 7 pupils, who were now in Year 8.
Series 2 (2016) The second series of
Our School was filmed at
Greenwood Academy in
Castle Vale near
Birmingham. This series began to be aired on 5 January 2016 and ran for 15 weeks, with the final episode being broadcast on 12 April 2016. It was retitled
Our School 2 and followed the same format as Series 1.
Series 3 (2017) Before the launch of the third series there was one-off special, which saw two students, one from Series 1 and one from Series 2, swap schools for a day and get to know and interact with the other students. The special aired in August 2017. The first episode of Series 3 of
Our School was broadcast on 5 September 2017. It was filmed at
Firth Park Academy in the
Shiregreen area of
Sheffield. Special: When Conyers Met Greenwood
Series 4 (2018) The fourth series was filmed in Scotland, at
Shawlands Academy in the
Shawlands area of
Glasgow.
SPECIALS: • One Last Term • Moving Day • Return to Firth Park
Our School Summer Camp (2019) Series 5 (2019) The fifth series was filmed in south Wales, at
Hawthorn High School (
Ysgol Uwchradd Y Hawthorn) in the village of
Hawthorn, Rhondda Cynon Taf near
Pontypridd. In a new feature, for the first time year 8 pupils were also featured alongside the year 7 pupils in the show.
Series 6 (2020) Series 6 was filmed at
Ryburn Valley High School in the town of
Sowerby Bridge in the
Upper Calder Valley of
West Yorkshire. The first episode was broadcast on 26 August 2020. •
Series 7 (2021-2022) Series 7, filmed at Firth Park Academy, started broadcasting on
CBBC on 6 September 2021. The series consists of 20 episodes aired over selected weeks of the Autumn and Spring terms of the current academic year as part of the
Bitesize programming block. The first ten episodes aired during the first two weeks of the school year before taking a break. The series resumed with the remaining ten episodes from 17 January 2022. The episodes were made available on iPlayer as well.
Series 8 (2022) Our Boarding School Series 8 was filmed at
Badminton School, an independent
boarding and
day school for girls in
Westbury-on-Trym,
Bristol. The series was scheduled to start on 12 September 2022 but was delayed to a later date due to
the death of Elizabeth II. As such, the
BBC iPlayer synopsis for the episode "Pen Pals" has a notice saying that it was filmed in 2021 before her death, as she is mentioned in the present tense once. The series is narrated by
Diane Morgan. ==References==