Matthew is at the helm as Educating Yorkshire returns to our screens

The last time that Educating Yorkshire aired in 2013 and 2014, David Cameron was Prime Minister of a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government, the UK was still part of the European Union, the idea of a pandemic closing schools or cancelling exams seemed laughable, and Matthew Burton was a dedicated young teacher at Thornhill Community Academy in Dewsbury who was desperate to bring out the best in his pupils.

- by Charles Brown

Only the latter remains the case after the intervening 11 years - except that the sign on Mr Burton's office door now says 'Headteacher'.

And it is as leader of more than 900 pupils and 100 staff that he will be reunited with TV viewers when the latest series of the Channel 4 show airs on Sunday.

The success of the Educating series - Yorkshire came after the Essex version in 2011 and was followed by the East End, Cardiff and Greater Manchester - stems from school being a universal theme, he suggests.

Matthew says: "Teachers don't do things so that you remember them in six months' time, they do things so that you look back in 20 years' time and think: 'That was a bit of a crossroads in my life."