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It is a new term at Waterloo Road with a new headteacher hoping to steer a smoother course for pupils and staff at the Manchester school after a spectacular fall from grace.

The last series saw former headteacher Steve Savage (Jason Manford) and his son Billy arrested after year 11 pupil Boz Osborne was found dead.

Now Lindsey Coulson has joined the cast as new headteacher Dame Stella Drake.

The ex-Ofsted director is attempting to restore law and order and rebuild the reputation of Waterloo Road, which is currently tarnished as the ‘murder school’.

Meanwhile, trainee teacher Donte Charles faces his first hurdle when he locks horns with an unruly new boy and juggles a secret liaison with a member of staff.

And Jared Jones attempts to win the favour of his history teacher to keep him sweet on his new relationship with girlfriend Libby Guthrie.

As ever, there is more on the curriculum than just academic studies.

School-based drama Waterloo Road is back for a fifth series since its 2023 revival.

The show returns to screens on Tuesday 11 February at 9pm on BBC One, with the next seven episodes shown on successive Tuesdays.

All eight one-hour episodes will also be available on the BBC iPlayer from 6am on Tuesday 11 February.

Who is in the Waterloo Road season 15 cast?

Lindsey Coulson plays new headteacher Dame Stella Drake (Photo: Vishal Sharma/BBC/Wall to Wall/Warner Brothers TV Production Services Ltd/Dan Ollerhead)

Lindsey Coulson leads the cast as new headteacher Dame Stella Drake in Waterloo Road.

The English actress will be familiar to audiences as Carol Jackson from EastEnders, a role for which she won the the 2000 British Soap Award for Best Dramatic Performance.

The 64-year-old has also starred in Bulletproof as DCI Sarah Tanner and The Bay as Penny Armstrong.

Adam Thomas

Adam Thomas is a long-serving Waterloo Road cast member, who started out as a pupil and is now a trainee teacher at the school.

Thomas, 36, was an original cast member of Waterloo Road in 2006. He left the show 2009 and joined the soap opera Emmerdale as Adam Barton.

He rejoined Waterloo Road in 2023 as part of the series revival.

Kym Marsh plays Nicky Walters, a member of the school canteen staff. (Photo: Helen Williams/BBC/Wall to Wall/Warner Brothers TV Production Services Ltd/Dan Ollerhead)

Kym Marsh plays Nicky Walters, a former beautician and now a member of staff in the school canteen.

Marsh rose to fame in the pop group Hear’Say in the early 2000s.

After Leaving the band, she moved into acting and starred as Michelle Connor in Coronation Street from 2006 to 2019.

She joined the cast of Waterloo Road in 2023 and she is a co-host on the BBC’s Morning Live magazine show.

Lucy Chambers

Lucy Chambers is joining the cast as Cat Guthrie, sister of Libby Guthrie.

Chambers described her character as “cool, confident, and caring and not afraid to speak her mind”.

The 17-year-old has previously appeared in BBC show The Listeners and ITV’s The Bay.

The remaining cast includes:

Where is Waterloo Road filmed?

Waterloo Road is set and filmed in Manchester.

Since series 14, the fictional school has had academy-status and was rebranded the Greater Manchester Academy.

Filming for this takes place in a former Manchester College campus in the city centre.

Production staff repurposed the empty building to create the fictional school after the college moved to new premises.

Jonny Cope, the show’s locations manager, told the Manchester Evening News last year: “We have been able to use an old Manchester college site after they moved their students to a different campus.

“The college itself has been great as we’ve also been able to use some of their other campus sites for other locations in the series.

“We’ve made some changes inside, some of the old classrooms have been used for dressing rooms, and costume spaces.

“But pretty much every room in the building is used.

“One of the most bizarre things is we film a lot in the canteen, but we also use it for our own canteen to eat at too, it’s quite a bit to get your head around!”

The show has been filmed at a variety of different school premises over the years.

From series one to seven, it was located in Rochdale, Greater Manchester at Top Hill School on the Kirkholt Estate.

From series eight to 10, it was located in Greenock, Scotland.

And following the reboot, it was based at the former St Ambrose Barlow Roman Catholic High School building in Swinton before moving in to the city location.

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