The BEST episodes of Waterloo Road
Every episode of Waterloo Road ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Waterloo Road!
Affairs, scandals, blackmail and many, many headteachers. Who said education was easy?
#1 - Episode 18
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/6/2009
Bitter battle lines are drawn between Chlo and Donte as they wrangle over their baby’s future, but when Chlo goes into a complicated premature labour, Donte finds himself at risk of losing his baby and his wife. Meanwhile, a Home Office official turns up at the school to tell a shocked Eddie and Rachel that Kim has taken Grace from Rwanda against her father's wishes. The officials paint her as little more than a criminal who paid another woman for her baby. What follows sees Kim’s world come crashing down around her.
#2 - Episode 20
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/13/2008
t's the last day of term; Stuart Hordley discards a cigarette butt carelessly at the school causing a widespread fire. Who will live and who will die?
#3 - Episode 3
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/18/2011
Amy Porter has a stalker, which draws battle lines between Karen and Eleanor. Rose and Tom try to protect Sambuca from the truth about her life-threatening tumour. Ronan proposes to Vicki - but can she resist Aiden's advances?
#4 - Episode 1
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/25/2009
It's all change at Waterloo Road. The school has been merged with local private school John Fosters after it was forced to close when wealthy parents could no longer afford the fees. As a result around a hundred new pupils are enrolled at Waterloo Road and neither the "posh" John Fosters pupils nor the "scuzzy" Waterloo Road kids are happy about it.
#5 - Episode 20
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 7/15/2010
Amy's relationship with Finn takes a terrifying turn when he suggests a radical proposal to ensure they stay together. Meanwhile, as Rachel and Adam prepare to walk down the aisle, trouble at the school puts the bride's attendance at the ceremony in jeopardy. Starring Jack McMullen and Eva Pope. Last in the series
#6 - Episode 12
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/14/2010
Ruby struggles with her personal problems but refuses to take medication to help her cope. To make matters worse, she must take the Year 10 class on a trip to a farm, where Josh suffers a serious accident, and she finally confesses to Rachel how her worries are affecting her work. Elsewhere, Chris and Kim's mentoring scheme causes trouble for everyone. Starring Elizabeth Berrington and Eva Pope
#7 - Episode 20
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/20/2009
Waterloo Road is in the final of North West Schools Choir of the Year competition, but things take a bad turn when it becomes apparent that Flick stole the lyrics for the song. Rachel decides to save the reputation of the school and withdraws them from the competition. Matt’s gutted and can’t bear for all their hard work and effort to go to waste. Can he and Steph pull out the stops and re-write another song in time to still take part? Back at the school, a loved-up Eddie is totally gob smacked to find Melissa waiting for him. He’s in for a further shock when she reveals that she’s pregnant.
#8 - Episode 19
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/13/2009
Still reeling from losing Grace, Kim struggles to hold it together as organiser of a fundraising day at the school. But will a surprise visit from her ex, Andrew Treneman bring the support she needs or just raise more questions about Kim’s conduct in Rwanda? Meanwhile Rose Kelly and Candice Smilie prepare a menu for the relief day using their knock-off meat. It’s past its sell-by-date but they’ve given it a once-over and taken off the labels so that no-one is any the wiser. However, when a mystery illness strikes the school, the dodgy dealings in the canteen come under suspicion.
#9 - Episode 17
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/21/2008
Chlo says she wants Donte back, whilst Mika and Brett take their environmental plans to the next level.
#10 - Episode 16
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/14/2008
Wilson Bignham, a supply teacher for Jasmine's temporary departure, is leaving, and lots of the school is sad to see him go. However, something strange is happening between him and Janeece...
#11 - Episode 13
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/24/2008
A group of students are volunteering at local work places, and Janeece ends up at a museum. But after an unsuccessful start, she goes to work with Maxine at a resting home, with serious consequences. Meanwhile, Tom and Davina take their relationship to the next level.
#12 - Episode 10
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/13/2007
Rachel decides to bring the school musical forward, but this creates problems with the staff and pupils involved, as they're not sure whether they can do it in time. Chlo and Mika are still single, but Donte tries to encourage a reunion between the group.
#13 - Episode 9
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/6/2007
Mika has some surprising news for Brett, she might be pregnant. There is an archaeological dig and some bones are discovered - it turns out to be a baby that was buried there a long time ago. Meanwhile, Davina and Tom grow closer.
#14 - Episode 10
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/12/2007
Lorna's struggling to deal with her MS, and when a year group present her with some handmade cards, she gets very emotional and walks out on her class, the school, and her job. Davina, steps in to help in Lorna's absence but Steph doesn't think Davina should be working with kids after her affair with a pupil and tells Jack all about it. Lorna returns and tells everyone that she's leaving Waterloo Road, but wants a weekend away with Izzie first.
#15 - Episode 9
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/5/2007
The interviews for the headmaster’s position at Waterloo Road are taking place, and an ambitious interviewee has Jack going in as the underdog. Meanwhile, Kim tries to find out why Dale is playing truant.
#16 - Episode 5
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/15/2007
Outside of Waterloo Road, a pupil is attacked, and this prompts the school to set up a self-defence class. Elesewhere, Lorna goes to the hospital to receive the results of MRI scan, only for her to discover she has multiple sclerosis.
#17 - Episode 6
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/22/2007
Izzie is trying to recover from the loss of her baby and Tom hasn't come clean about what happened with his pupil, Stacey. Izzie returns to work but after there's another attack in the area she gets very protective of her daughters Chlo and Mika.
#18 - Episode 6
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/15/2007
Waterloo Road and Jack are in the spotlight once more when it breaks to the reporters that Chlo is missing, and Donte steals Lewis' moped in order to look for her. Jack's day worsens with the discovery he's manipulated the school's budget, and he's still trying to win Davina back. It seems nothing can go right for him...
#19 - Episode 8
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/29/2007
Some of the school's most difficult boys are going on an adventure trip with Eddie, Tom, Davina, and Grantly. However, after Grantly insults Bolton's mum, Candice, it ends in havoc. Meanwhile, tensions between Chlo, Brett, Donte, and Mika run high.
#20 - Episode 4
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/1/2007
Jack decides to pop the question to Davina, and she agrees. But when the announcement is made, is Steph able to keep her mouth shut about her and Jack's recent fling. Meanwhile, Chlo finds it hard to accept what happened between her and her sister's boyfriend, Brett.
#21 - Episode 6
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/2009
Matt bites off more than he can chew when he becomes Sam Kelly's emergency foster carer.
#22 - Episode 1
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/9/2006
Headteacher of Waterloo Road Comprehensive, Jack Rimmer, hires Oxbridge graduate Andrew Treneman, hoping he can improve the school's failing status and bring them back from the bottom of the league tables. Meanwhile, colleagues Tom and Lorna tie the knot - but the groom ends up kissing someone who isn't his new wife.
#23 - Episode 6
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/13/2006
An education inspector pays a visit to Waterloo Road, and brings bad news regarding the future of the school. Jack decides the time has come to finally let Steph go, but his task doesn't quite go to plan when she threatens a dire act of vengence, unless he rethinks his actions. Meanwhile, Tom and Izzie struggle to fight their feelings for each other and things come to a head when they find themselves alone.
#24 - Episode 7
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/20/2006
The staff organise an open day in a bid to impress the inspectors, but events take a turn for the worse, courtesy of Lewis Seddon, when gay pupil Rory starts a petition against homophobic bullying. Holly wakes from her coma and Chlo rushes to her bedside in the hope of finding out what she remembers from the crash. Andrew asks Jack why Steph hasn't been sacked, while Lorna catches Tom and Izzie snogging together.
#25 - Episode 8
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/27/2006
Tensions run high as the inspectors make their decision about the future of Waterloo Road, while Chlo's nerves are in pieces as she faces her day in court. Kim speaks to the committee about the terrible incident with Lewis Seddon, but they are less than sympathetic to her which causes her to consider quitting her job, much to Andrew's dismay. Lorna continues to remain heartbroken over Tom and Izzie.