Class Dismissed (TV series) facts for kids

Mr Gangle (Series 4-) A P.E. teacher lives up to his surname with his gangly appearance and who is completely physically uncoordinated and easily confused, often leading to him confusing his students as well.

Mr Nasal - (Series 1-2, 4) Mr Nasal has a grotesque and filthy appearance. He has a huge nose and regularly sneezes thick and foul mucus, often over the unfortunate Emily or over food or students’ books. He has a romance with the equally physically repulsive (but more likeable) lab technician Miss Spray whom he marries at the end of Series 2 after which they both leave. He returned for Series 4 in which it was revealed that he and Miss Spray had a baby who shares his father’s disgusting habit. He didn’t return for Series 5.

Gary Stern (Series 4) The head of discipline at Quayside Academy. He bears a strong resemblance to Jeremy Kyle and disciplines students as if it were The Jeremy Kyle Show. He didn’t return in Series 5.

Mr Christopher - (Series 1-5) Mr. Christopher is a very camp and self-obsessed music and dance teacher with a deluded sense of his own skills as a performer. Even during a written exam he finds it impossible to keep quiet and he always wishes to steal the show. In Series 2 he is promoted to Head of Arts ("not including actual Art"). He has made two songs which have been used in the show's credits. Martin was the only member of his ‘entourage’, the other students being distinctly unimpressed with his abilities. In Series 4 (now set at Quayside Academy) he became a drama teacher and Mr Bishop took the role of music teacher. He left at the end of Series 5 to pursue a career in television. The final episode of series 5 is a retrospective of his life. He is convinced that his pupils have absolutely no talent, particularly Alexcia whom he nicknames F minus.

Dockbridge Characters

Mark - (Series 1-3) Although in Year 8 Mark is far taller than his fellow students. However his behaviour is anything but mature and he shows no interest in working even though his mother (Mrs. Mark) is his form teacher. Indeed, Mark is constantly embarrassed by the idea his mother being his teacher and insists "She's not my mum!"

Mrs. Mark - (Series 1-3) A form tutor who teaches her son, Mark. Although she claims to treat all students fairly she blatantly favours Mark, always giving him "Pupil of the Week" and punishing other pupils for his wrongdoing. She was inspired to become a teacher by Granny Mark, who is her mum. She then used Mark's catchphrase "she’s not my mum" to refer to Granny Mark.

Marcella - (Series 2-3) A mean Year 13 girl whom Mark has a crush on. She often uses stereotypical teenage expressions and slang.

Juan Castenetta - (Series 2-3) A Spanish teacher who teaches Spanish through gestures and mannerisms rather than the actual Spanish language.

Mr Ladd - (Series 2) A briefly-seen, "cool" supply teacher who likes to break rules and do parkour rather than actually teach. Mr Capp admires him but Mr Ladd tries to lure him into trouble.

Miss Stuart - (Series 4) A Geography teacher with a PhD in fun! Every time a member of her class says that they are bored she breaks out into song to "make sure they are having fun". However her elaborate efforts fail to catch their imaginations. She left after one series.

The Amazing Anita - (Series 5-) A Spanish teacher who used to be part of a magic act called Juan and the Amazing Anita. She gets her class to recite things in Spanish while she performs magic tricks which usually go wrong.

Kelly (Series 5-) An extremely embarrassing mother who is obsessed with her son whom she nicknames Boo-Boo Bear and makes up excuses to visit him during the day. She is constantly hugging and kissing him and squeezing his cheeks.

Mr Vista (Series 4) An art teacher whose drawings seem to get a little destructive. Although the lessons start off happy, he then believes that something awful will happen to his world so starts messing up the picture. He only appeared in Series 4.

Mr Krill (Series 5-) An art teacher who is obsessed with Blue whales and gets annoyed if his students paint something other than a blue whale.

Nick (Series 5-) One of the receptionists. He constantly interrupts Bunty with useless information that doesn’t make sense.

Mr Keenan (Series 4-) A fleetingly seen teacher who is always falling victim to some strange accident. When enquires follow he replies “don’t ask”. He is the only character played by Forbes who appears in both Series 4 and 5.

Steven “Knight Hawk” Jenkins (Series 4-) A P.E teacher who believes himself to be the "Night Hawk", a champion wrestler. He teaches the lesson as if it were a wrestling match, with loud music at the start for his entrance. He likes the students to call him by his nickname but they stick to calling him "Mr Jenkins".

Mr Allen (Series 4-) A Maths teacher who is slightly overenthusiastic about numbers, often singing songs and playing music about them. However his positive mood evaporates when he objects for no clear reason to a perfectly correct answer from one of the students and sends him or her out of the room.

Rolf Smorgasbord (Series 5-) The selfish, pompous and camp head of displays. He has a German accent. His displays are never very good. He often gets students to be part of his displays by dressing them up in costumes covering them in substances or getting them to stand still in a position all day.

Mr Goldman (Series 4-) Headteacher of Quayside Academy. He takes his assemblies as if he were the CEO of a big technology company, calling himself "Teacher, Innovator" and can often be found with his less-than-helpful assistant Carol.

Mr Soleil (Series 4-) He teaches French and wears an outfit of clashing colours and patterns. He is completely disrespected by his "assistant" Poppy whom he has to send out of the room in an unconvincing display of authority. He likes to think that he’s strict and serious but he’s anything but.

Mr Carroll (Series 5-) A geography teacher who acts and dresses like he’s from Australia. Despite this he is one of the few teachers who knows what he’s doing. Warren particularly like this class and always knows what Mr Carroll is going to say and knows all the answers.

Mr Spenge (Series 5-) A very easily-confused science teacher who is always getting his words muddled up and accidentally getting covered in sticky substances and getting stuck to things.

Mr James (Series 5-) A secret agent who appears in one episode of Series 5 in which he goes undercover as a supply teacher, taking over French for Mr Soliel, and mistakes Connor for a fellow secret agent.

Miss Crank (Series 4-) A History teacher and prankster who always tries to "Crank" her class so she can post them on the internet. However, none of the students ever actually believe what she is saying so the Cranks don't work.

Poppy (Series 4-) Poppy is supposed to be Mr Soleil's teaching assistant but her behaviour and attitude are far worse than any student.

Nadia Choudhry (Series 5-) The lazy, Australian-accented, head of security who is constantly on the phone and shows no interest whatsoever in the student’s problems, even if it’s incredibly serious like the ceiling in the assembly hall falling down. Her catchphrase is “Oh No!” said in a sarcastic tone.

Mrs Aviary (Series 5-) A reptile obsessed biology teacher who often lets her pets loose in the school.

Dame Margot Chichester (Series 5-) The drama teacher who takes Mr Christopher’s place. She gets her students to act as nursery rhyme characters and goes to extreme lengths to make them act the part.

Joanna Clearwater (Series 5-) A broadcaster who reports on Mr Krill’s art classes and is obsessed with blue whales.

Bunty (Series 5-) One of the receptionists at Quayside Academy who interviews everyone who comes through reception such as delivery drivers. She is constantly being interrupted by Nick.

Mr Chakra (Series 5-) A man who teaches yoga and his constantly breaking wind but blames it on other people. He speaks in a sing-song voice.

Miss Spray - (Series 1-2) Miss Spray is a lab technician who sets eyes on Mr Nasal and the pair fall in love in a scene echoing Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet. In common with Mr Nasal Miss Spray has a rather grotesque appearance but she has a much more pleasant personality and none of his bad habits. After a sometimes tempestuous relationship the pair marry at the end of Series 2 and then leave the show.

Mrs Collie - (Series 1) A judge in the dog competition.

Mrs Haqvinder - (Series 1-2) She appears to be a rather elderly, traditional ICT teacher but in reality she loves video games and plays them along with her class when Mr Potter and other teachers are out of sight.

Miss Veeo - (Series 2) She appears in one episode in Mr Barrowboy's Food Technology lesson. She speaks through a microphone in classic voiceover style, passing comment on the students' culinary efforts to their annoyance.

Magda - (Series 1) A permanently miserable, silent personal assistant to the spoilt socialite Whizz Pinkham who humiliates her every lesson.

Miss Openshaw - (Series 1) A supply teacher with excessive fake-tan and make-up. She used to work in a call centre and teaches as if she still does - her voice alternating between excessive sincerity to an automated style and telling the students "your education is important to us".

Tammy - (Series 2-3) A "girl" who's been in isolation since 1989 following "a bad case of talking-back". Tammy idolises Jason Donovan and acts in an extremely immature way, often getting other students into trouble.

Counsellor Joy - (Series 2-3) A PSHE teacher who advises the students on well-being issues but is easily upset herself.

Mrs Hushman - (Series 3) A maths teacher who always shouts. To the students' relief she is replaced by the returning Mr Konnundrum.

Miss Bolton - (Series 1) The northern-accented, arrogant Miss Bolton constantly trumpets her own sporting triumphs to the students although these never amount to more than winning events in Dockbridge High when she was a student.

Mrs Dogsbody - (Series 1) Mr Barker's PA who translates what he is 'saying.'

Whizz Pinkham - (Series 1) Trainee teacher Miss Pinkham is related to one of the governors which seems to be the only explanation for her working at Dockbridge High. She boasts of her wealth and privileged lifestyle which are more akin to being one of the super-rich than a humble teacher. She patronises her students and her unfortunate assistant Magda.

Mrs Macintyre - (Series 1) She is the joint Deputy Head in Series 1 who advertises that she is Scottish by wearing a tartan scarf. She is constantly at odds with Mr Potter - the pair's attempt to divide everything in the office in half completely failing to keep the peace.

Miss Dior-Durant - (Series 1-2) A textiles teacher with a Germanic accent who speaks in broken English. She often records makeup tutorials or haul videos in class instead of teaching. Her ideas of fashionable clothing are quite ludicrous, as are her turns of phrase such as telling one student "You look like Taylor Swift riding dolphin from volcano".

Hillary Head - (Series 2-3) She arrives in Series 2 to replace Mr Barker "who has gone to live on a farm". She very much looks the part of the dynamic young Head except for one thing - she has a pathological fear of children.

Lydia Prie - (Series 3) A reporter for the Media Studies class.

Jasmine's Mum - (Series 1) A lady who is a fan of Sir Stanley Bleacher, though he cannot act or perform properly.

Miss Clover - (Series 1-2) A energetic office worker who - ever so politely - makes things overly complicated for the students who need her help.

Miss Goldfish - (Series 1-2) Miss Goldfish, who wears orange-gold outfits and huge false eyelashes, is a supply teacher who has a memory of only five seconds in common with her namesake-creature. This means that she spends the entire lesson introducing herself to the class to a mixture of amusement and later annoyance.

Miss Presto - (Series 2) A geography teacher who spends more time showing the students magic tricks than she does teaching.

Sir Stanley Bleacher - (Series 1) Shakespearean actor ("and Eastenders market stall-holder") Sir Stanley is very much a ham performer. He is always dressed in Victorian-type clothing and ends his exhibitions of over-the-top playing with the words "Now that’s acting!"

Dave - (Series 1-3) Dave - the school caretaker - wears a cap, has ginger hair cut in a pudding basin style and speaks with a rural-type accent. He is overly involved with his job, for example treating the sight of chewing gum as an emergency. His pride and joy is "Lorraine" – the school mini-bus which fails to start on the day of the school field trip.

Alan Potter - (Series 1-3) By the standards of Dockbridge High Mr Potter is quite an efficient teacher though prone to irritability. In the first series he has a bitter feud with fellow Deputy Head Mrs McIntyre with whom he shares an office. After Mr Barker’s departure he assumes the position of headteacher but to his annoyance Hilary Head has been given the job. Throughout Series 2 & 3 he becomes very jealous of his boss and makes several attempts to get her job.

Lord (or Mr) Windlow - (Series 1-2) Lord Windlow is clearly modelled in dress and speech on Alan Sugar. Every lesson becomes a version of The Apprentice with students set "tasks" and advised that "One of you will be leaving at the end of the process. .

Mr Rhomb - (Series 2–3) An enigmatic Art teacher with bleached hair and glasses and a softly-spoken voice who seems to be modelled on Andy Warhol. He literally immerses himself in his artwork out of which he often emerges or disappears. He sets the students bizarre tasks and finds fault for no obvious reason in Martin's work in Series 2, though this is changed to Billy in Series 3.

Bruce Turnip - (Series 2) An outdoor survival teacher who thinks he's in Australia, calls the students weird nicknames and thinks the weather is boiling hot even in winter.

Mr Spittle - (Series 3) A woodwork teacher who eats during lesson and gets food all over his students.

Mr Hart - (Series 1-2) The school nurse with an American accent who seems to be under the illusion he is featuring in a fast-paced American medical drama. He reacts hysterically to the mildest medical problems such as headaches, minor cuts and nits, treating them all as emergencies.

Kevin - (Series 1-3) Assistant to Dave the caretaker. He has a high-pitched Geordie accent and he makes even Dave seem competent. In Series 3 he has a Scottish accent instead.

Mr Mumbles - (Series 2) A supply teacher who mumbles a lot and knows nothing about Science.

Blake Papaway - (Series 2) A photographer who would rather take a lot of selfies than take photos of the children.

Mr Love - (Series 3) An Australian PE teacher who teaches alongside his wife Mrs Love. Both profess their love for each other but that doesn't stop them soon descending into good-natured argument.

Mr Busk - (Series 3) A part-time supply teacher who pretends he is a living statue and will only teach the lesson if he is paid £10.

Bouncer - (Series 1-2) A security guard who hates Miss Kinder and will not let her into the staff room because he thinks she is a child and a liar.

Mr. Oakley - (Series 1) A carpenter and woodwork teacher who is obsessed with wood and makes everything out of it. He insists on referring to all the students (including the girls) as "lads" or "men". Despite his love of wood he can be terrified of the slightest risk such as a splinter.

Emily's Dad - (Series 1) He makes one appearance at Parents' Evening in the first series. Although smartly-dressed his attire is insulted by Miss Dior Durant who asks him if he works as a "model for clothes to be thrown away"

Mr Schofield - (Series 1-3) The excessively-tanned, silver-haired, Irish-accented Mr Schofield seems to be an amalgam of Henry Kelly and Phillip Schofield. He treats every lesson as if it were a game show such as Pointless and Family Fortunes, asking quiz questions and setting challenges. When he asks students and even an inspector where they are from he greets their answers with stock responses such as "Ofsted – a lovely part of the world".

Mr Barrowboy - (Series 2) The food technology teacher who acts like Gregg Wallace.

Mr Qwerty - (Series 2) An ICT teacher who believes he is up-to-date with new technology but whose knowledge seems to be trapped in the 1990s as he informs students about "electronic mail", failing to realise that the students know much more than he does.

Mr Veloce - (Series 3) A supply teacher who can never find his classroom. When he does he only has a minute to teach the lesson and rushes it.

Mr Nappy - (Series 3) A part-time teaching assistant who has three triplets he permanently has to look after.

Miss Glock - (Series 2) A music teaching assistant whose ridiculous dress sense is only matched by her ludicrous and inept efforts at making and teaching music. She was appointed by Mr Christopher despite the other candidates being more talented and even he admits his decision was about wanting to have an assistant who "wasn't as good" as him. She is also a fantasist who claims to be receiving calls from Gary Barlow but which are in fact are from the likes of PPI claims companies.

Miss Droppit - (Series 2) A careers adviser who tries to tell students to forget their own sensible career ambitions and instead become a careers adviser like herself.

Mrs Stein - (Series 3) A science teacher who throws food at students.

Riddling Receptionist - (Series 3) A receptionist who gives visitors riddles instead of directions.

Mrs Winstone - (Series 2-3) An unlikely-looking librarian who wears a dark suit and has slicked-back hair. Speaking with an Italian-American accent she appears be modelled on Marlon Brando's Godfather character and runs the library in a ruthless manner.

Mrs Love - (Series 3) An Australian PE teacher who teaches along with her husband. Mrs Love is madly in love with him and pays more attention to him than the class.