Waterloo Road

- Season 6

(2010)

New head Karen Fisher replaces Rachel and new language teacher,Spaniard Cesca Montoya, turns male heads while a pregnant Janeece returns as school secretary. Marcus Kirby has been educating his children Jonah and Ruth at home but,at his wife's request,enrols them at the school. Jonah is delighted to meet a social circle but Ruth feels the school has little to offer her and runs away. She is found but the incident leaves its mark on Karen. There is trouble also for Chris,who has slept with a girl he met in a club,only to discover that it is Karen's daughter Jess. He ...

Ruby,now cured of her medication habit,reunites with husband John to try for a baby but her age goes against her. Karen's husband Charlie joins the staff but their son Harry sees a message on his father's mobile and suspects he is having an affair. Accompanied by Sambucca he follows Charlie,who is meeting Cesca,but when Harry tells Karen she does not believe her husband would betray. Jess,annoyed that Chris,on whom she has a crush,is getting on with Karen,publishes a piece in the school newspaper blaming Karen for the disappearance of her other daughter Bex some years...

Karen instigates a sexual health initiative with a confidential contraceptive service. Students Ronan and Sarah are concerned as the condom broke whilst they were having sex but she is nervous about attending and asking for the morning after pill. So too is Jess for fear that her promiscuous life-style will be exposed so she sends Vicki to get it for her. However the ruse is discovered and the girls argue in front of Chris. He is concerned for Jess's welfare but she misreads it as being rather more,given her crush on him.

Whilst Karen insists on marking the birthday of Bex,the daughter who ran away from home,Charlie and Jess believe it is morbid. Connor Lewis,an openly gay pupil,arrives and whilst Josh is rude to him,he later attempts to kiss Finn,leading to a fight. However he denies any such thing when brought before Tom and tries to compensate by getting physical with a confused Lauren. Vicki finds it hard juggling looking after her sick father and tries to blackmail Chris into giving her better grades after Jess has told her about their one-night stand. Janeece suggests that the ...

Following the attempt to kiss him Finn is hostile towards Josh though they finally make up. Janeece is irritated when Ruby tries to dictate her diet to her for the welfare of the baby. New teacher Marcus is struck by the enterprise shown by young Ronan Burley,a would-be entrepreneur who is selling DVDs at school. However when Marcus visits the his father it turns out that he is a gangster who wants Ronan to take over his business and the boy is trying to make enough money to leave home. After a showdown in the school corridor Ronan finally shops his father to the ...

As Karen and Charlie separate and Vicki's father is taken into a home Karen invites the girl to live with her. In the fall-out from his parents' separation Harry is being bullied and nicknamed Piggy for his bulimia but Ruth shows him how to defend himself. Following Cesca's drugs awareness campaign Sambucca attempts to expose Amy and Laured as drug-dealers but Amy sets her up to make her look like the wrong-doer and Laured must defend Sambucca and Cesca. Grantly falls asleep in class and it is revealed that he is wearing himself out caring for his wife,who has ...

The pressure of seeing his parents argue at school and the intensified bullying of Finn,especially after he has twharted Finn's efforts to sleep with Jess,take their toll on Harry. After Finn has pushed him into the school swimming pool he stays at the bottom and needs rescuing. Karen is appalled to learn that he kept his problems from her and tells Charlie they have failed him,though she rejects Charlie's offer to return home. Josh and Finn are suspended though Josh turns against Finn and Jess punches him. Ruth deliberately loses a debating contest to prove to her ...

With her father ill and her home repossessed Vicki moves into a homeless hostel but finds it hard to do her schoolwork due to noisy,drunken room-mate Chantel. She again tries to blackmail Chris to give her good grades and he does though the deal is that she move into a foyer,a hostel designed for young people. Karen is annoyed when he confesses what he did but understands his concern whilst she and Charlie recommend Harry sees a counsellor. Grantly finds it increasingly hard to cope with his wife's erratic behaviour,leaving lessons when she is in crisis,but promises ...

The other teachers are not impressed when Chris introduces CCTV to monitor the classrooms and Jonah and Ronan,feeling it smacks of double standards,secretly install a web-cam in the staffroom. It picks up Vicki thanking Chris but reveals his night with Jess,now dating Jonah,and the furious boy attacks the young teacher. After initially lying, Chris confesses all to Karen but Jess defends him,claiming that she made all the running, and Karen is loth to sack him. An angry Marcus tenders his resignation instead. Ruby persuades Grantly that his wife Fleur would be better ...

The last day of term brings mixed fortunes. Harry is in therapy doing well but the Fishers are dismayed to hear that Charlie is moving to London in line with new girlfriend Maria's teaching promotion. Steph,before leaving with Ollie,accompanies Grantly as he reluctantly places Fleur in a home but on his return to school it transpires that ,due to the stress of his domestic situation,he has been teaching the wrong A-Level syllabus. The kids are outraged though Tom and Marcus,despite the fact that he is leaving,offer extra tuition to rectify things. Steph explains to ...

Bex returns to school after her two year absence,but says nothing about what she did,though she refuses to take calls from somebody called Hodge and receives a bunch of flowers. In response to the boys' poor exam results Chris instigates a segregated sex teaching system,to the displeasure of feisty new staff member Adanna Lawal. The boys' class is indeed a disaster,thanks to insolent,persistent truant Kyle Stack,who sees it as his job to challenge Finn and ends up in detention. He is joined by Bex,who has disrupted Grantly's class,and who accuses him of sexual assault...

When pupil Billie Taylor tells Janeece that her mother is trying to steal her baby Brooke from her Janeece immediately champions the girl and acting head Chris and Adanna are unsure who to believe,especially when Billie claims her mother hit her. However,it becomes clear that Mrs Taylor is acting for the good of everybody by seeking to adopt Brooke when Billie,goaded on by the voices she hears in her head,puts her baby in danger and Chris saves the day. Jess discovers a message from Hodge on Bex's phone and questions her,to no avail. Josh hits it off with new pupil ...

Josh comes out as gay to a sympathetic Tom,admitting his mutual attraction to Nate Gurney. However when Nate's single father discovers his son's sexuality he accuses the school of encouraging it. Learning that Gurney's other son,Aaron,who knew Nate was gay,was killed serving in Afghanistan,Tom tries to heal matters by starting a foundation in Aaron's name but gets beaten up by Gurney instead. Cesca finds it hard to fight her feelings for the smitten Jonah whilst a suspicious Karen follows Bex and sees her meeting Hodge. Karen approaches him and,whilst he claims to be ...

Ruby argues with new caretaker,Polish Lukas Wisniewski,and inadvertently sides with racist pupil Martin Dowling and the weak-minded Kyle when they racially taunt him. Martin is particularly upset that his father,a right wing bigot whom he is trying to impress,did not get a job with the school whilst a Pole did but ultimately learns that his father is making excuses for his own laziness. However Lukas,despite an apology from Ruby,decides to move on whilst Cesca and Jonah end up in bed together and Jess gets picked up by Hodge. Janeece,aware that Ronan has stolen an ...

When Karen upbraids Harry for poor grades he gets revenge by stealing her phone and sending critical emails,supposedly from her,to other teachers,including Cesca,who believes she and Jonah have been discovered. Before it is resolved Ruby and Grantly have called for union action and Karen has to listen as Harry says he believes her to be ignoring him. The school business initiative,a supposedly segregated exercise in front of a visiting entrepreneur, is only saved when the girls break the rule and high-jack the boys' class to impress the visitor after Harry and Kyle ...

As Jonah suggests to Cesca that they go public as a couple Hodge continues dating Jess,under the name of Ewan. Then pupil Wayne Bodley discovers a shot of Bex on a porn site and it soon comes to Karen's attention. Bex explains to her mother that she met and lived with an older man who filmed their sex life but she now wants to put him behind her.However Bex sees Hodge with Jess and confronts him. He says that he has a sex disc of Jess as well,which he will publish unless Bex goes back with him and so she agrees.

Finn and Ronan organize a rave at an abandoned mill,where they closer to Sambucca and Vicki. However interlopers,headed by gang-leader Gav,gate-crash and it is down to the newly-reinstated Tom,whom Kyle has phoned in the hopes that he will spoil the rave for Finn,to save the day. Jonah gets drunk and almost discloses his affair with Cesca,to her horror,whilst Bex goes off with Hodge to spare Jess. However Jess has alerted her mother,who follows with Chris and Hodge is ultimately arrested.

The school holds a fashion show and Ronan brings in Dan Hargrove,owner of a modelling agency,to give confidence to would-be model Vicki,now his girlfriend. Adanna once dated Dan and was dumped by him,so she regards him as a creep and,when he takes Vicki for an innocent lunch,accuses him of unprofessional conduct. This causes trouble with Ronan but,after Vicki has explained that nothing untoward happened,Adanna has to apologize to Dan. Cesca,finding herself pregnant by Jonah,goes to a clinic for a termination but changes her mind after he his impassioned phone call. ...

As Ronan and Vicki unsuccessfully try to dissuade Jonah and Cesca from their affair Cesca resigns,claiming that she needs to look after her sick father. To unite the sexes Adanna plans a pantomime 'Cinderfella' with reversed gender roles and both Sambucca and Kyle look like shining in it. Denzil,ever out to impress Kyle,electrocutes himself whilst on bootleg hooch and Ruby and Grantly have a contest to see who can write the best novel,judged by Tom. He chooses Ruby, who submits her work to a publisher. Finally Chris discovers what is really going on between Cesca and ...

Ruby leaves the school to pursue a writing career,having dedicated her first novel to Grantly. Cesca and Jonah leave under less happy circumstances. Arrested and bailed Cesca drives her young lover to Gretna Green to get married but they are intercepted by police who drive them away in separate cars. Finn goads Kyle into a fight,taking his place when Kyle is thrown out of 'Cinderfella' to Sambucca's annoyance. Kyle and Denzil sabotage the production before running away and Denzil is seen climbing over a railway bridge overhanging the road. He slips and is saved by ...