By Chelseigh and Chloe

Cane: the cane was often used at school if children didn’t behave in lessons and playtime. Boys were caned across their bottoms and girls across arms and bare legs. Dunces cap : in Victorian times punishment didn’t end in caning. If children didn’t behave they stood in the corner of the room and wore a big hat or arm band with a giant D on it.

A teaching

Assistant

played an

out of tune

piano whilst children copied arm and leg moves

off the teacher.

Some playgrounds were on roofs of schools but mostly in a big yard outside of the school. Children played lots of games on the playground like……………

…….hopscotch, football with the ball as a pigs bladder, skipping, blindman’s buff, spinning tops.

This is what a school room looked like