The year is 1969 and Jack Sheffield is a young teacher in need of a job. In a room full of 29 other newly qualified teachers he’s overjoyed when he's appointed to Heather View Primary. Jack is excited to start his first year there and to begin shaping young minds in a beautiful new location on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales. But Heather View isn’t as idyllic as it first sounds. In fact it looks more like a prison than a primary school. With less than adequate funding and a head teacher who doesn’t seem to care it's no easy task to give the kids the education they deserve. But Jack’s determined to do just that.