A class on a environmental walk in cane fields

Games

At lunch, the children would play marbles, hopscotch, tops, skipping, bottle tops, cads, cricket, football, hide and seek, round up, brandy, red rover, soft ball, soccer, leap frog, singing, corners, shadow puppets, cat and mouse, follow the leader, climbing trees, chasing, mini-concerts, volleyball, basketball, rover come over, marching squad practice, parallel bars, swings, tennis, swimming, cowboys, Indians and most schools had a playground.

Furniture/Equipment

Slates, long desks, pencils, pads with lead pencils, ink, blotting paper, wet rag to clean the slates, dry clothes to dry slates, slate pencils, ink wells, copy books, pens, exercise books and slate pens. The furniture in a classroom would consist of desks with opening lids, long desks which fit 5 people and blackboards.

Teachers/Punishments

The teachers were very strict. When the boys got into trouble, they were sent to the headmaster and got caned.

Girls were disciplined by writing out lines or sent outside the room. The students were also kept back after school.

A class, with varied ages.

Boys over 8 would get the cane on their hand six at a time. Boys were hit with a ruler.

If girls got into trouble they would be kept in after school or at lunchtime to write out lines (school rules or sentences).

Students were rapped over knuckles, or they had to face the wall. Why were the children punished?

They were punished because they spelt words wrong, got music notes wrong, talking in class, even coming in late, messy work, blotches of ink on their work, punching someone in the back. 5 school days in a week and 6 hours a day

School days

Physical education (Includes push-ups and marching into the classroom), science, arithmetic, sport, history, music, geography, reading, writing, maths, exercises, English, drawing, craft, sewing, spelling. School Days: 5days School hours: 6 hours