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Mr G
Greg Gregson – 'Mr G' – has been teaching drama at Summer Heights High for nine years. Mr G is passionate about his innovative drama and dance teaching methods. He believes his dedication to his students has been changing lives for many years.
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When we meet Mr G he is a senior drama teacher. However when the Head of Drama takes sudden leave and Mr G is asked to act in her position, his world alters.
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He appoints himself as the "Director of Performing Arts", restructures the department and causes much friction among the staff and school.
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Mr G's circle of friends include Rodney, a science teacher with a love of musical theatre; Toby, a young student with Down's Syndrome, and Celine, his elderly pet chihuahua.
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He also takes the opportunity to make his mark in his new role, cancelling the traditional school musical so that he can write his own original "Arena Spectacular". A school tragedy inspires the theme.
In the face of relentless opposition, will the curtain rise on opening night and how will Mr G cope with the unexpected obstacles?
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Ja'mie King
Ja'mie King is the most accomplished Year 11 student at Hillford Girls Grammar, an exclusive private school for girls.
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Ja'mie has been given an incredible opportunity to participate in the "It's All About Education" campaign, a state-sponsored programme designed to bridge the divide between state and private schools.
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Keen to push the boundaries, Ja'mie swaps schools with a student from Summer Heights High, embracing the idea of being an ambassador for her private school.
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It is a journey of discovery for Ja'mie. She is out of her comfort zone, going through many of the traumas that teenage girls face but in a foreign environment.
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Outside her privileged and sheltered world she is faced with a harsh reality.
Ja'mie wants to change Summer Heights High.
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How will the staff and students cope with her naïve opinions and forceful personality? And will Ja'mie be able to claw her way to the top of a school world where boys, lesbians, emos and hot teachers are all experiencing new things themselves?
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Jonah Takalua
Jonah Takalua is a Year 8 student from Tonga. Summer Heights High is the third school he has attended in the last year and a half, after being expelled for setting fire to a student's locker and defacing a principal's car.
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Jonah is physically more mature than most boys his age. He is charismatic and well-known around the school by both students and staff.
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He has a close gang of Tongan friends and a reputation as the best breakdancer in the school. The class clown and a smart-a**e, he is obsessed with defacing school property.
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The head of student welfare at Summer Heights High has made it his personal mission to keep Jonah on the right track. Throughout the term he presents Jonah with a variety of carefully crafted programmes, designed to teach him the value of responsibility and social acceptability. However, Jonah just wants to have fun.
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Jonah's father has threatened to send him back to Tonga if he's expelled from one more school.
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Will Jonah make it through a term at Summer Heights High without being expelled, when tormenting young students, drawing obscene pictures, harassing teachers and entertaining fellow students during class is so much fun?
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