The Heartly high students are getting a hard time from the Heartly heights students and one of them plays a crule prank on Anita.

Kurt is embarrased by hais alchoholic father.Leo Fine is sent to jail and Melanie Blacks dad takes over at the sharkpool.

The newest addition to the teaching staff at Hartley Heights High School, Gerard Albers, is an eccentric and flamboyant bohemian from Spain, who is as at home on the touch football field as he is in the classroom.

When Les confiscates a Penthouse magazine from Drazic in class, he has no idea what the consequences will be. Drazic takes revenge by sticking a centrefold on one of Les' Biology teaching aids.

New kid Andrew arrives at Hartley. Although he has Muscular Dystrophy and is in a wheelchair, he is determined to be treated like a normal teenager.

Melanie and Andrew seem happy together but as opposition to their relationship mounts, Melanie starts having second thoughts.

Albers decides to teach a history class with a twist when he asks the class to put Arthur Phillip on trial. Was Arthur Phillip a good man or did he knowingly attempt to carry out genocide on the Aboriginal people?

Anita and Ryan are not coping well with the 4am wake up calls from baby James. Jeff feels bad - he came here to help the kids through the HSC but he seems to be making things harder for them.

Anita and Ryan are enjoying life without parental supervision until Kath Livingstone, the new housekeeper, arrives with her daughter Sarah.

Nikki is furious when Kurt continuously puts his love for the environment ahead of her. However, he reveals the cause of his fanaticism: a seal at the Aquarium is on the brink of death because it swallowed a plastic bag.

When Sarah helps Anita and Drazic discover the internet, she inadvertently gets them both into trouble. Anita is wooed by a man calling himself DJ Byron but when she agrees to meet him she puts herself in a dangerous situation. Drazic has a run in with customs when he tries to order CD's to sell to his school mates. Both learn a tough lesson! While Nikki is filming Mai performing as a human sculpture in the local mall they film a pickpocket working the audience. They take the tape to class and the class debates what action to take. Embarrassed when Barry turns up to footy practice drunk, Kurt sacks his dad as coach and takes over himself. Not everyone is pleased—Ryan quits the team. However it seems that there may be more behind Ryan's departure — Kurt and Nikki are now an item and Ryan refuses to believe that he's lost Nikki just yet.

Ryan, still smarting over Kurt and Nikki's blossoming relationship, is staying away from the football team. However, Barry manages to persuade him to rejoin for an inter-school competition.

After putting Kurt in hospital, Ryan finds he is being ostracised. Feeling sorry for himself, he wags school and meets Mario,, who offers him a way out of his depression - and so, Ryan begins his trip into the drug culture.

Now well and truly entrenched in the world of drugs, Ryan is at the point where his speed is costing him more than he can afford. Desperate for more drugs, Ryan begins to steal, first from Anita and then from the school. Anita discovers Ryan with stolen goods — now she is left with the task of making him see sense. When Albers sets a project focusing on personal histories, Sarah sets on a trail to find out about her father. However, she may not be pleased with what she finds out. Kurt's return to school brings back memories of his accident, and he is concerned that nobody knew how to cope. He convinces Di to run a voluntary basic first aid course, but Kurt has trouble convincing the other boys to participate. It is not until he reveals his secret weapon that the boys finally come around.

When Ryan is late for class again, and hasn't done his major assignment, Barnett hauls him over the coals. Ryan refuses to be helped by her or anyone and walks out before he can be suspended from school.

Sarah enlists Anita's help to find her father but Kath makes it very clear that they'll receive no assistance from her.

While busking, Nikki meets Luda, a recording artist who wants to record one of her songs.

Since Mai and Drazic had a close nocturnal encounter, things in the warehouse have been somewhat tense. As the new arrival, Kurt feels that maybe he's the problem.

When JJ, a prisoner on day release, begins working at the school, he runs into some prejudice from the kids. All that is, except Sarah who, upon talking to JJ, realises they have a lot in common and quickly begins to fall in love.

Despite her mothers objections and threats, Sarah continues her relationship with JJ.

Deciding to refocus his life on getting back in shape, Kurt has a chance meeting with Lachlan, an old friend who is now running a fitness club that is dedicated to cleaning up the environment.

Kurt and Lachlan discover Skye and her friends camping in the park and try to move them on. Things heat up when Lachlan and Anita later find Lachlan's club house has been vandalised.

Lee Delaine has two strikes against him: he's the newest student at Hartley Heights and to make matters worse, his father is the school's new Humanities teacher.

Sarah is back at Hartley having finally left home and returned to the city. She has rented a flat, but the landlord keeps trying to chat her up as well as beating his wife.

When Drazic throws himself into trying to design a new type of skate, Di suggests he consider a career in industrial design.

Believing she's on a date with Paul, Anita is taken aback when he recoils from her attempt to kiss him. When she presses him for an explanation, Paul reveals to her that he is gay.

Pat Gregory, an old friend of Nat Delane, takes up a teaching post at Hartley, but soon runs into trouble with Lee who is still having difficulty fitting in.

With his parents waiting for him to choose a new school to attend, Lee shocks them by announcing he is not going to change schools - he's dropping out.

Nikki turns moral crusader when she learns that the mother of her friend Tasha is being exploited by her boss. Nikki takes it upon herself to demand he pay his workers a fair wage but her meddling only causes more problems.

Di informs the students that the school has installed a card-swipe system as part of an "efficiency measure". Among other things, the cards record attendance, a system Drazic is quick to capitalise on.

In a well intentioned effort to help Sarah overcome her inhibitions, Ryan volunteers her to perform a play in front of the class. Seeing a chance to help Kurt explore his sensitive side, Anita nominates him to be her partner.

Wanting to take her relationship with Ryan further, Sarah asks Nat and Jill if she can have a friend stay the night. They are quick to agree, unaware she means Ryan, and the evening is awkward for everyone involved.

After Anita spends the night with Kurt at the shed, Drazic doesn't appreciate Kurt rubbing his nose in their relationship and asks Ryan to move out.

With a virtual Cold War existing at the shed between Kurt and Ryan, Kurt conspires with their realtor to orchestrate a scheme to break their lease by getting evicted.

Nikki's behaviour grows more erratic. She has missed two days of school and when she returns, wet from being in a fountain where she was talking to a cherub, Lee becomes concerned for her welfare.

Kurt takes up the cause of helping find a mate for Wally the sea turtle. With charitable donations hard to come by, Kurt accepts help from D'espo who comes up with a racy promotion for a dance night at the Shark Pool.

After a humbling defeat on the tennis court at the hand of a visiting tennis ace, Kurt takes a personal interest in Bonnie Coyne but her intense training schedule - and demanding mother - keep the pair apart.

To mark Ryan's move into the shed, Sarah gives him a clock that is family heirloom. Needing money to buy a bed, Ryan turns down Sarah's offer of a loan and then takes Drazic's suggestion that he pawn the clock.

A radio contest for a state-of-the-art sound system catches Drazic's ear. "The Wheelie Challenge" is an endurance challenge that has the competitors riding a Ferris wheel.

Kurt's sudden disruptive behaviour escalates until he assaults Mr Delaine in the corridor and is suspended from school.

A new student arrives at hartly and it becomes apparent that shes a troublemaker when she takes Drazic for a ride in a stolen car

A graffiti artist is on the loose in the school and Di is not impressed. Only Draz knows the true identity of the culprit and he's in full support of her artistic expression.

In an attempt to boost the Shark Pool's takings and help pay off his debts, D'espo invests in a foosball table and plays host to a mini World Cup.

Anita is worried about Drazic's involvement with Jet but love is blind and Draz is smitten. Jet resents Anita's interference and warns her to stay away from Draz.

Thania succeeds in baiting Sarah when she challenges her religious beliefs.

The antagonism between Sarah and Thania escalates when Ryan becomes the model for Thania's life drawing assignment - make that nude model.

Anita becomes concerned when she finds out that a lot of seniors at Hartley are relying on over-the counter drugs to get them through their stressful final year.

Sarah has all the classic symptoms of morning sickness and confirms her greatest fear - she's pregnant. Sarah is undecided about what she is going to do, but if there's one thing she doesn't want, it's Ryan's involvement.

Sarah offers to baby-sit the kids at her mothers' class so all the mums can have a night out, and is annoyed when Ryan turns up with a gift for the baby, trying to push his way back into her life.

Ryan tries out for the combined high school cricket team but is put off his game when a team member sledges him.

End of year Muck Up is upon us and it threatens to be the Muck Up to end all. Di warns the kids not to take it too far and bans Draz from participating.

Lee is deeply hurt by Nat's affair with Isobel but now that it's out in the open, he hopes there is a chance that his folks will be able to sort it out and life will resume as normal.

Nat and Jill's break up takes one step further as they fight over who gets what. Lee gets caught in the middle, angry at both his parents for their self-centred behaviour.

Ryan has lined up a classy venue for the end of year formal but his plans fall through and he finds himself on D'espo's doorstep, begging for ideas.

Friendship is tested when Sarah and Anita apply for the same job as receptionist at a local marketing firm.

Ryan gets a job at a cricket pavillion and meets a legend.Kurt and Thania get together.Dennis fails his exams, so does Anita and Drazic. Kurt leaves to go to Townsville and Ryan leaves to go on tour with the legends of cricket.The crew all say goodbye to each other and Di Barnett tells them she is leaving to teach another school and Draz jumps for joy, but later says goodbye.

Carson, the new school principal, has arrived at Hartley and he's full of new rules. The first of which is no kissing in the school yard, soon followed by the segregation of boys and girls in the classroom.

Thanks to Undercurrent reporter Katherine Baker, Draz has lined up an interview for a job at a classy hotel.

Zac's old man, Owen, is working him pretty hard at his stone masonry workshop. As far as Owen is concerned, keeping the family business afloat is more important than going to school.

Zac's trying his hardest to give the stone masonry a go but his heart's not in it. When he can't take it anymore, Zac tells his father he's going back to school.

Anita brakes up with Drazic and goes out with Todd Gillespie.Draz smashes up the classroom.

Despo opens a new cafe in the school grounds called La Dolce Vita.Dennis starts dating fat girl Sophie.

Thania gives Drazic a pet piggy to cheer him up.Zac and Gem kiss behind lees back.

A new student who is deaf gets a hard time from the students.Lee askes Zac to leave the Delaines.Marc accuses Draz of staeling from the poor and draz says he is the poor.

Clare Grant,an exchange student from London,starts at heartly.Zac moves into the shed with draz and thania.Marc has a crush on miss Kasis.

Marc and jackie get close.

Marc's interest in Jackie has grown and he's starting to look at her as more than just his teacher. He uses their private tutorials to try to get to know Jackie on a more personal level.

Jill Delaine stars work as the new school secretary.Marc and thania fall out but make up whan they have to look for two old heartly students as a project.

Lee is bullied by his friends and soon he is on the school roof... Draz has a party to celebrate the end of his probation.

Drazics dad turns up and does not get a good welacome from his son.A new student arrives and is dressed as a goth.

Drazic and his Dad make up after Draz helps him at the garage however tragedy strikes when Dragon collapses and dies.

Drazic confronts his father when the rent money for the shack disappears. His father's frank admission only confirms Drazic's belief that he doesn't want his father in his life.

Thania circulates a petition in hopes of combating government cuts to public education. Her fellow students don't share her enthusiasm.

Draz has inherited his father's auto repair business and is stoked when he learns it could sell for a hundred grand.

Draz is determined to fill his dad's shoes in the running of the business and spends every spare moment he has working to get everything done

Marc and Drazic are suspicious when they notice a guy taking photographs of them from the school gates.

Carson is appalled when half the class fails to hand in its assignments because watching television took priority over doing the homework.

Gem starts a rumour that Miss Kassis is involved with one of her students and guides Thania towards making the conclusion that Marc is that student.

Gem lies about marc assaualting her in the cupboard.Draz is arrested by Gillespie but thinks its a set up

Drazic is put under pressure to take the rap for the stolen car parts.Anita asks Gillespie to do her a favour and help Drazic.Draz decides to tell the police the truth and is put in the clear.After realising what Anita means to him he asks her to marry him and he accepts.They invite the whole school,even the princple Alan Carson!!