Synopsis

An intense, surprising and intimate series that, for the first time, looks deep into the incredible dynamic existing today between students and their teachers at a typical Canadian high school. Based on the award-winning UK format, This is highschool offers unprecedented access into the day-to-day goings on at South Kamloops Secondary School in Kamloops, BC. Facing daily pressures at school, at home and in the world, today's teens deal with seemingly insurmountable challenges. This is highschool explores themes of teenage life and those all-important student-teacher relationships, which lie at the heart of everyone's formative years. Fitting in, falling out, exam pressure, peer pressure, first love and last chances—This is highschool uses warmth and humour to describe steps on the journey towards self-knowledge, at a time when both the present and the future remain uncertain. ​