Mr. Richard Fawcett

**Mr. Richard Fawcett** is the headmaster of Hope Green Secondary Modern in Season 2.

## Post-2004

He is now the Chair of the **Friends of Thurston Library** who is receiving a British Empire Medal for services.

## Personality

While Mr. Fawcett can be fairly stern when laying out the rules or disciplining students, his overall demeanour is more calm and relaxed unlike Charles Darwin Grammar's headmaster Simon Warr as he only raises his voice once in the whole of season 2, and he is much more willing to let students off with smaller misdemeanours after briefly talking to them, most notably when he merely warns Sophia Madisonte after her disruptive behaviour in Needlework. He is also shown to care much more deeply about his staff, and is understandably upset with a number of boys when they laugh in Matron's face when she's making an important announcement.

## Quotes

**Episode 1**

**Mrs. Lloyd-Jones:** Headmaster, this is Sophia, who has been told off for answering back, and for rudeness.
**Mr. Fawcett:** Let me make it absolutely clear, absolutely clear; when you're at this school, you follow the instructions of staff to the letter. Is that understood?
**Sophia Madisonte:** Yes, Sir.
**Mr. Fawcett:** There's no place in this school for making my staff's lives difficult.... *let alone impossible!* And don't forget it!
**Sophia Madisonte:** I won't forget it, Sir.
**Mr. Fawcett: (whispering)** You will *not*.

*(after Sophia disrupts Miss Dunn's needlework lesson)*
**Mr. Fawcett:** Come in.
**Sophia Madisonte:** May I close the door, sir?
**Mr. Fawcett:** Yes, please. *[Sophia does so]*
**Narrator:** After her disruptive behaviour in needlework, Sophia has been summoned to the headmaster's office.
**Mr. Fawcett:** Come stand by the desk, and put your hands behind you. And why am I seeing you?
**Sophia Madisonte:** Because I was rude to...
**Mr. Fawcett:** To...?
**Sophia Madisonte:** I don't know her name, Sir.
**Mr. Fawcett:** To a member of my staff?
**Sophia Madisonte:** Yeah.. *(Mr Fawcett glares at Sophia)* Sir.
**Mr. Fawcett:** I spoke to you upstairs about this, this morning, and what did I say?
**Sophia Madisonte:** You told me not to be rude.
**Mr. Fawcett:** I told you it was totally unacceptable in this school... Totally unacceptable: to answer back, backchat to teachers. Totally unacceptable to be rude to them. So am I going to see any more of this?
**Sophia Madisonte:** Hopefully not, Sir.
**Mr Fawcett: "**Hopefully not"?!
**Sophia Madisonte:** Well, it'd be rude to lie, can't say definitely not.
**Mr Fawcett:** Well, I don't think you'd better... think that you would get away with doing it again. Off you go.
*[Sophia exits the headmaster's office]*
**Episode 3**

* **Mr. Fawcett:** *(after a group of boys at one table laugh in front of Matron doing an important announcement)* I watched what you did to Matron then, and quite frankly I'm appalled. Absolutely appalled. After all Matron's done, all you can do is to giggle in her face and I don't find it at all funny. I find it embarrassing, it makes me cross, and you've let me down. The following will happen; there will be no tuck for you tomorrow, and secondly, the head boy will lead you in working out what will be an appropriate apology to Matron, which will be made before nighttime, and if I find *anyone* thinks this is a joke, or thinks they're not a part of it, or in any way further lets me down, they'll be alone in my room tomorrow. Lead off.