the main plot focuses around franklin turtle and his friends starting a new year of school after a fun and relaxing summer, only to find out that their teacher mr. owl is absent because he got called away on a family matter. their replacement teacher, miss koala from australia, pulls up on a motorbike and at first franklin finds her weird. she uses phrases such as "fair dinkum" and wants to create a brand-new soccer team. soon, however, he and everyone else in the class are won over by her "can-do" attitude.