He has recruited and developed a very strong team with a balance of male and female staff that has helped students at the school to achieve exceptional results in IGCSE and A-level – the best in the school, along with maths – and inspired many to read physics and engineering at top universities. He has strongly supported the Stephen Hawking Society, which brings eminent scientists, including the man after whom it is named, to the school to lecture to students from St Albans School and from many schools in the area.