A visionary and an idealist, Mr Fogg was deeply influenced by the educational reforms which were realised by a series of Christian school masters in the nineteenth century.
Until 1968–1969 the school's official uniform, supplied by Messrs Watson Prickard of North John Street, Liverpool, consisted of both a winter and spring blazer in a deep bottle green, and a summer blazer, which was striped in the school colours: green, yellow, black and red.
Mr Fogg's political views were evident in the granting to the whole school a half holiday in 1970, following the fall of the Wilson government.
The school consciously attempted to ensure that the ethos and conduct of its pupils and its assistant masters (who taught in gowns) maintained a standard that would have been expected before the Second World War.
The Army Cadet Force, under the command of Captain Hartley in the 1960s an early 1970s, was active and held an annual summer camp.
Training and 'square bashing' took place on Fridays after hours; some indication of the ACF's intended status is that members were permitted to wear their military uniforms when travelling to and from school and throughout the day's classes.
In the late 1970s an occasional visitor to school classes was a 'Professor Mays', apparently an educationalist with a research interest in adolescence and permission to sit with and interview boys unsupervised.
The educational philosophy of Mr Fogg can be summarised by his own words: "It is the headmaster's firm conviction that, given the right environment, a boy will seek to emulate the good example of those who strive to guide him".
Basing their comments on a table published in the Financial Times, the newspaper's educational reporters opined: "Wellington, which says in The Equitable Schools Book 1992 that art and music are its strongest departments, scored an average of 6.1 UCCA points per pupil, based on a score of 10 points for an A grade, eight for a B, six for a C and so on.