Inspiring headmaster calms schoolboy after he cries: ‘I can tell you don’t want me here’

Joining a new secondary school can be an extremely tough experience.

Not only is it a more fast-paced environment than primary school, but there’s also the pressure of important exams in the near future, not to mention a more complex teenage social dynamic.

For 11-year-old Tremaine, his experience was even more difficult than some people might be able to imagine, given that the year seven student had a reading age of five years old.

On Sunday night’s episode of Educating Yorkshire, the Channel 4 show introduces viewers to the charming pupil, who Thornhill Community Academy headmaster Mr Burton says has ‘fantastic potential’.

However, when he finds himself under tough levels of stress, Tremaine can act out, resulting in him being told off by his teachers and punished – and on a couple o