A school is judged by what its pupils become.

Our task is unglamorous and continuous. Teach well. Expect discipline. Notice the quiet child. Send out young men and women who can think, work and serve.

I have spent more than forty years in schools, in South Africa and in Nigeria, and I have never seen a shortcut work. What works is a timetable that is kept, teachers who know their subject, marking that comes back quickly, and a staff who notice when a child goes quiet. Everything else follows from those four things.

With Hensard University behind us we are rebuilding this school around academic rigour, sport and civic responsibility. That means investment in laboratories and in the library, more subject specialists, supervised prep every evening for boarders, and a serious sports and music programme rather than a decorative one.

We keep the school small enough that the staff know every child by name. That is a deliberate limit, not a stage we are passing through.

I would rather show you the campus than describe it. Come to an Open Morning, walk the boarding houses, sit at the back of a lesson, and ask the pupils what they think of the place. They will tell you.