Educating Yorkshire viewers all left saying the same thing minutes into new series

Educating Yorkshire viewers were all left saying the same thing as the award-winning series made its huge return. The hit Channel 4 series has made its comeback after over a decade off screens and focuses on Thornhill Community Academy.

The much-loved show, which many will remember thanks to Mr Burton famously helping student Musharaf Asghar with his stammer, first aired back in 2013. Now, Matthew Burton is headteacher at the school and has welcomed cameras back in to follow its students.

Their 900 pupils take centre stage, as they share their perspectives on school life and the challenges they face in education while growing up.

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The show returned on Sunday night, as viewers were introduced to a fresh set of students. Viewers loved the comeback already as one said: "#educatingyorkshire something worth watching for a change."

Another added: "So glad this is back. I love this." Someone else commented: "I loved this so glad it’s back!" A fourth wrote: "Loving this comeback already."

A viewer declared: "It's finally back," as another commented: "life is good #educatingyorkshire is back." "7 minutes in and we’ve got a girl obsessed with hash browns oh we’re so back #EducatingYorkshire," said one fan.

Speaking ahead of the series, Mr Burton admitted there have been may changes since 2013. He told The Guardian : “One of the biggest changes has been how much technology has advanced.

"Children are going round with mobile phones in their pockets which are incredibly powerful computers that can effectively do pretty much anything you want them to.”

Mr Burton, 42, who was an English teacher during the first series of Educating Yorkshire, revealed that mobile phones are "confiscated" if they are "seen, heard or used" during school hours.

“One of the things that always impresses me about students is how aware of their emotions they are and how emotionally literate they are and vulnerable when they need that support,” said Mr Burton, who is now a father to three children.

David Clews - creative director of Two Four, the company that make the show said that production regularly "checked in" with the teachers and students during filming.

"There's 65 cameras in the school - when we do it, we record four streams so we're not filming 65 cameras," he said.

"It is a constant dialogue that's always going on with Matt and everyone and the team about what we're filming and how we're filming."

The school's Assistant Headteacher Melanie Delaney-Hudson admitted that she signed the show's release form at the very last minute. "I signed consent on the week before the deadline. I was petrified," she said ahead of the show's premiere.

"My gut said - I live in the local community, my children went to Thornhill Community Academy and my focus was about making sure those kids came across exactly how we know them to be."

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