Dear teacher - Jack Sheffield

It's 1979, and as Mrs Thatcher becomes Prime Minister and Abba are top of the pops, in the small village of Ragley-on-the-Forest, Jack Sheffield returns for his third year as headmaster of the village school. Here are all the happenings that don't get into the official School Log - Ruby the caretaker discovers her Prince Charming; Vera the school secretary gets to meet her hero, Nicholas Parsons, and Jack to his astonishment, has to stand in as a curiously skinny Father Christmas. Jack also finds himself, at last, having to choose between the vivacious sisters Beth and Laura Henderson...