Channel 4 Educating Yorkshire star reveals horror accident that left her 'pronounced dead'

Hit TV show Educating Yorkshireis back on TV screens with a new series, with Dewsbury's Thornhill Community Academy letting the cameras in again, twelve years afterthe first season aired on Channel 4.

The show aims to tell stories of modern Britain through the eyes of the school in Yorkshire, with pupils and teachers sharing first-hand accounts of the challenges they face each day both in the education system and outside of it.

A new episode of Educating Yorkshire, which airs on Sundays on Channel 4, sees one pupil speak candidly about her battle with anxiety and where her struggles initially began.

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While standing in the corridor at Thornhill, the young girl confides in a teacher about her nerves surrounding an upcoming geography exam.

"I'm going to actually die in my Geography test," she admitted. "I don't know how my brain is going to work in there."

The teacher made sure to reassure her of her capabilities and provided some advice to lessen her nerves ahead of the exam.

"OK. So, one thing we're not going to do, we're not going to get overwhelmed if I'm going. Because, you've absolutely got it. You can absolutely do it," she told the pupil.

"We just need to be positive, whatever is on that paper is on that paper. But, you worrying about what it's going to be is not going to benefit you."

The teacher then repeated herself, adding: "Because you absolutely can do it."

The camera cut to an interview with the pupil, who is a school prefect. It was revealed she'd been suffering with anxiety since a young age, following an accident that occurred seven years ago.

"I was eight. I was playing hide and seek and I fell through a railing on a balcony," she told the camera. "They pronounced me dead, because I wasn't breathing and there was no sign of a pulse in me."

Anxiety is just one of the issues being tackled in the latest series of Educating Yorkshire, with the first episode featuring a student who suffers from Tourettes.

Headteacher Mr Burton has also been open about the issues modern technology has caused for education, from having to ban smartphones from being used at school to the rise of AI and what that could mean going forward.

"AI is a new problem, schools are finding out what the right way to use AI is and utilise its capabilities and then also be aware of the potential pitfalls," Mr Burton explained in one episode of the hit Channel 4 show.

Educating Yorkshire airs on Channel 4 on Sunday nights at 8pm.