Forest Sumi is a student at Waterloo Road High School. He made his first appearance in Series 14 Episode 3.
Series 14[]
Forest and his Mum have a meeting with Neil Guthrie about a complaint made against him. New deputy head Coral Walker forces Neil to apologise and Forest accepts. He is not seen again until Series 15.
Series 15[]
In Series 15 Episode 1, he had a panic attack in class after refused to go outside to calm down from test anxiety, therefore collapsing in class. Dame Stella Drake refused to believe him, despite Amy Spratt seeing it. Stella uncovers that Forest has been lying about his anxiety in order to get out of school work and lessons. As a result of Stella removing the counselling facilities from the school, his mother removes him from the school. She later changes her mind and rings Stella to tell her.