"These things were taken into the school to teach the children about the bizarre punishments handed out in Victorian times. We look back on those days and pity the children who had to suffer such ...

Pupils and staff at Naburn CE School turned up for class on Thursday dressed in Victorian ... Corporal punishment was used in the early years, and the school punishment book records anything ...

School punishments were much harsher in Victorian New Zealand than they are ... a punishment record book would be kept, and a doctor would visit regularly. Dawn Smith said the Marist Brothers ...

A complaint that two school teachers disciplined an eight-year-old boy using a Victorian form of punishment is being investigated. It has been alleged the boy's fingers were clamped into two wooden ...

“This is a Victorian punishment akin to making children stand in a corner with a dunce’s cap on. It is humiliating.” Ms Archer said Joseph had worn jeans with his Welsh shirt to the school ...

From a time when only 4 percent of children went to secondary school, these pupils form part of the lucky few, as they get to grips with their Victorian classroom. Strict rules, formality and ...