During the 1960s, I attended a prep school in North Yorkshire, from where I have very fond memories of our loving but strict matron – and the many smacked bottoms we received from her to keep us boys in line. no shock horror that you were going to be caned nor that yu had to take your pants down, nor that as i was in an all boys school the rest of the class witnessed you getting it bare.

Emma stays with Granny Farmer when Paulie and Sandy are on their honeymoon, and she is spanked regularly. This is book four in the series, and to get the full story you should probably read the other books first. Whilst this little entertainment was proceeding, Cynthia was spotted peeping through the door, which gave Matron - who was now well-enflamed - the excuse to demonstrate how a proper caning should be dispensed. These private schools as a rule made boys drop their trousers before bending over and were caned across their pants.Matron has taken on a young assistant, hardly older than us, whom she is attempting to brainwash about the evils of allowing unapproved finger-work.

If you were unlucky enough to be having a bath when you needed chastising, then you would get it on the bare bottom, which of course hurt even more acutely.

For misbehaviour in the dormitory, Matron’s remedy for naughty boys was an ordinary bedroom slipper.

Apparently overwrought by the discussion of corporal punishment which had been taking place in the Sixth Form Common Room, Diane had snuck up to her dormitory (which was located right above us) and had there been indulging in a little self-abuse when Matron stalked in.Some years ago I corresponded with a woman who had been for a short time, in a pro-CP campaign group around the time of the debates on banning it in British schools. But a few moments later, we heard the scrape of a chair, some movement, and then the slow, regular smack of a hairbrush against a bare bottom, interspersed with yelps and cries. I attended a state co-educational school in the 1960's,where the cane was the usual form of punishment,the female staff,particularly the older staff,were regarded as the "hardest caners" who always seemed to enjoy it. As I say, Matron was very experienced in disciplining children and you felt your misbehaviour in your pyjamas or pants for some time after the punishment itself. Charles Nicholas is the housemaster of Saint Samantha’s school for girls in Norfolk, England, and his wife Sarah is the Matron.