Gareth Malone's Extraordinary School for Boys - Episode 2 of 3

Choirmaster Gareth Malone teaches in a primary school in Essex for one term. It is a school like many across Britain, with a significant gap between girls' and boys' achievement in literacy. The first episode saw Gareth and the boys tree-climbing and sharpening their speaking skills with a debate. This time Gareth faces a new mission: to get the boys reading.

Head Chris Thurgood has set Gareth a tough target of improving the boys' reading age and she is unconvinced that his methods are working. When Gareth discovers that one boy has never even set foot in a bookshop, and another spends seven hours a day playing computer games, the magnitude of his task becomes clear. So he decides to stage a reading competition to run alongside the World Cup, and even gets the dads in to help get their boys reading with the lure of a camp-out in the school woodland.

Will Gareth's efforts be enough to convince the boys to put down their games consoles and pick up a book, and to show the headteacher that there is method to his madness?

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[mrssighthound]

unfortunately at 46min21sec your video stops. I think its great to watch the boys grow confident readers, I wish I could see more.

[NoMoreDVLies]

@mrssighthound Try closing your web browser and trying again. The whole video is there.

[megmo1571]

Aww they took "hand on heart" as a literal instruction! They're so bloody cute!!

[310sucks]

@vaslav030547 so learn to read. who cares what you drive or how much cash you have. the world has enough rich morons already.

[jeremyrules7]

it takes a lot of guts to do the camp fire thing with the dads

[vaslav030547]

By the way I cant read a book but I do have a Royce and a Merc,I Go to exquiste restraurants, and travel the world. Education is in living. Or fighting agaist a crap education

system.

Well Gareth at least proves that!

[vaslav030547]

swimwear Gareth. Take the guys swimming? OMG Gareth in trunks!

[YocoolKids]

jack looks like one of the greogry brothers from who dd the bed intruder song. I also wish Gareth was my teacher he's fit :) 

[A1ofAkindChick]

Jack is such a cute little boy! So is Ross! Adorable.

[Andybaby]

Great show, thanks for uploading!

36:40 I'm surprised it took the guy that long to realise that the problem is *skill*. If you can't actually read a complete sentence, how can you enjoy reading a book?