Isobel Pickwell

[[File:Imagepickwell.jpg|thumb|

]]

Isobel Pickwell is a character in Bad Education who used to work as the Deputy Headmistress at Abbey Grove School before leaving to go and live in Argentina with her pen pal. She made her first appearance in the Series 1 episode Parents' Evening and her last appearance in the Series 2 episode Fundraiser. She was portrayed by Michelle Gomez.

Character
"Pickwell" as she's affectionately known to Alfie is Abbey Grove's Deputy Head Teacher.

Stern to the point of being ferocious Pickwell despises Alfie's lax attitude and headmaster Fraser's ridiculous ideas of how to best to run the school. Keen to climb the ladder and take charge of proceedings herself she enjoys nothing more that catching Alfie out and watching him suffer the subsequent humiliation.

There's no room for sentimentalism in her life - although she does seem to have a fierce religious bent, longing for a return of creationism to the syllabus.

Pickwell certainly doesn't take fools gladly and is not a woman you'd want to mess with. In fact she has testicles of her own.

Towards the end of series two, Pickwell faked her suicide by jumping off the severn bridge. She left a note in the staff room which read that Alfie was the cause of her suicide.

Pickwell certainly shows a very intimate interest in Alfie. She did end up snogging the poor man in Funeral and evidently made love at the end of Fundraiser. Season 2 episode 6. Her love towards Alfie was never looked into.