When you accept the role of Head of Year 10 at Westbridge Secondary, you expect detentions, assemblies, and the occasional behaviour issue. What you get instead is the most notorious year group in the school: rebellious students, constant safeguarding concerns, and teenagers who seem determined to test every boundary you set. But behind every slammed door, sarcastic remark, and missed lesson is a student who needs someone to believe in them. As you navigate school politics, pastoral crises, and the chaos of British secondary education, you begin to realise that being Head of Year isn’t about controlling Year 10—it’s about staying when everyone else has given up on them. Or: you become the stable adult figure for thirty deeply chaotic fifteen-year-olds and somehow survive.