Jim Perks – You are always being assessed by Teacher

You try and instill that on the students very early on and they’ve all got different characters and it’s absolutely true, you’re being assessed from the minute, you know from their photograph, Day 1, bang, you’re being assessed.

Straight away and you know I used to be the person, I don’t look at people’s uniforms and make a judgement, I found that you do. You know you just do, ‘Well he’s particularly smart and he’s particularly scruffy.’ Whether that means anything, probably not.

Simon: Does that mean anything, or is it just a mental note?

Probably not. It’s just interesting. You start to build a picture of course. If he hasn’t taken the effort on his shoes on Day 1 of Perisher, does that mean he doesn’t really care? ‘Cos for me I would have done, or if his caps is a bit skanky, this is Day 1 of Perisher, the pinnacle so far of your career, make an effort.

That didn’t happen when I was Teacher, they all made an effort, but you see what I’m saying. You’re always making an assessment in some way of his character, of war fighting ability, how he tracks others, you know.