On 25th November 2025, we had the team from BBC Scripted Drama in school to work with the Year 9’s. Following last years successful workshops, the BBC were keen to work with our students again.
The session was a chance for students to learn about how a TV show or film is made both in front of and behind the scenes. Students were treated to exclusive behind the scenes footage on how a car crash was created by the production crew from ‘Doctors’ that is filmed in Birmingham and, how students can access job roles at the BBC directly after leaving school in an apprenticeship role.
Do you know what the ‘Gaffar’ does on set? Or maybe the ‘Boom Boy’? What about 3rd Assistant Director? Well, the students now know this information and the BBC Scripted Drama Team now hope that for some of our students, it will provide the spark needed to consider a career at the BBC. We have also been invited to the new Postproduction Studios in Digbeth where they are currently filming the new series of ‘Silent Witness’.
