Students and parents remember him as a reliable and highly organised teacher and as an excellent sports coach. By his presence in the school as a long-serving teacher he has sought to find creative solutions to discipline and behavioural policy.
The 1980s saw the beginning of a completely new approach to discipline. PH and MJ drew up the (Prep School) School Rules in 1986, with the aim of setting specific goals for boys’ behaviour and focusing on acceptable boundaries. The rules covered behaviour in such areas as travelling to school, classrooms, lunch breaks, the library, sport and examinations. In the same period, the school introduced the ‘strap book,’ through which staff became more accountable for their disciplinary techniques by having to record each use of the strap.