Bro Martin Wanambwa and the long game at St Henry's Kitovu

Bro Martin Wanambwa has spent long enough at St Henry's College Kitovu, the Masaka boys' school everyone knows as SHACK, to take the long view of almost everything. Cohorts come and go; the institution is the point.

His stewardship is of the unhurried kind. Traditions are kept because they still do real work, not out of sentiment, and the things that change, teaching methods and pastoral systems, do so quietly and only after they have been tested on a single class first.

Ask him about results and he redirects to character: the discipline of prep, the responsibility that comes from running a house, the older boy who learns to look after a younger one. The grades, in his telling, follow.

It is an old argument, and an unfashionable one in a league-table age. But the boys who pass through SHACK tend to prove it right a decade later, which is the only timescale on which he is willing to be judged.