Class warfare

Jessica Plummer plays a teacher under extreme pressure

- CAREN CLARK

A passionate but stressed-out English teacher reaches breaking point in 5's one-off drama Special Measures.

The final instalment in the Play for Today anthology centres on Amy Garrison, played by Jessica Plummer, who teaches at a struggling secondary school.

One morning, while her mind is on a pregnancy test she has taken, she learns that her head of department has quit. Now, she has to cope with extra work, an irate parent, and overwhelmed, inexperienced colleagues - just when an Ofsted inspection is getting under way.