Home Sweet Home is the first episode of Series 10.
Synopsis[]
With Christine demoted, a new headteacher arrives - Vaughan Fitzgerald, with his partner, art teacher Allie Westbrook, and her children Tiffany and Floyd. Soon afterwards, Olga, the unstable wife he left for Allie, arrives with their sons Leo and Justin. She is about to enter a psychiatric unit, and dumps the boys on Vaughan. Leo is affable, but Justin is hostile towards his father, picking a fight with Floyd, and though he apologises, he is insincere, and makes it clear he does not want to be at Waterloo Road. Returning from their cruise, George unceremoniously dumps the mercenary Carol, who gets revenge by posting pictures of him being sick on the ship on the internet. Darren Hughes's mother dies of a drug overdose and he moves into the schoolhouse, prompting Vaughan to propose that the school forges stronger links with the community.
Plot[]
It's a fresh new term, and dynamic headteacher Vaughan Fitzgerald and his family arrive at Waterloo Road and attempt to fit into their new lives. Darren's world falls apart after a shocking incident at home, and George learns never to cross a member of the Barry family.
A brand new family arrive at Waterloo Road and immediately shake things up both in and out of the classroom. Dominant and forward-thinking, Vaughan Fitzgerald has all the makings of the dynamic headteacher the school needs, while his confident partner Allie takes the reins of the art department. But their professional veneer just might be tested as their warring children's behaviour threatens to spill out into the classroom.
Christine vows to help Darren with his desperate situation at home, but neither are prepared for the shocking scene that awaits when they try to confront his mother.
George has been bled dry by Carol over the summer, and pledges to make a change, though he soon finds out why no one messes with a Barry and gets away with it.
Main cast[]
Staff[]
- Melanie Hill as Maggie Budgen
- Neil Pearson as Vaughan Fitzgerald (First appearance)
- Nicola Stephenson as Allie Westbrook (First appearance)
- Zöe Lucker as Carol Barry
- Angus Deayton as George Windsor
- Georgie Glen as Audrey McFall
- Laurie Brett as Christine Mulgrew
- Leon Ockenden as Hector Reid
- Vanessa Hehir as Sue Lowsley
- Richard Mylan as Simon Lowsley
- Victoria Bush as Sonya Donnegan
Students[]
- Joe Slater as Lenny Brown
- Mark Beswick as Darren Hughes
- Rebecca Craven as Rhiannon Salt
- Kane Tomlinson-Weaver as Harley Taylor
- Leo Flanagan as Floyd Westbrook (First appearance)
- Sammy Oliver as Tiffany Westbrook (First appearance)
- Tommy Knight as Kevin Chalk
- Caitlin Gillespie as Lisa Brown
- Brogan Ellis as Kacey Barry
- Max Bowden as Justin Fitzgerald (First appearance)
- Zebb Dempster as Leo Fitzgerald (First appearance)
- Je'Taime Morgan Hanley as Shaznay Montrose
Others[]
- Keeley Forsyth as Sammy Hughes (Final appearance)
- Pooky Quesnel as Olga Fitzgerald (First appearance)
- David McGowan as Alan Lennox (One-off appearance)
- Daniel Kerr as an unnamed estate ned (One-off appearance)