"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 ...

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 ...

In a scene more reminiscent of a Victorian orphanage or an 1800s ... These days, in the realm of harsh school discipline, suspensions, expulsions, and school arrests most immediately come to ...

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 ...

UPDATE: THE cane won’t be making a comeback in Victorian schools, despite a head of the national curriculum review suggesting corporal punishment was effective when he was a kid. Dr Kevin ...