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Hastingleigh and Elmsted School

"The Punishment Book"

This table lists a fraction of the punishments meted out to pupils as an example of school discipline in the early 1900s.

The ages are not noted in the original book, but have been added where known, to illustrate that caning could and did

happen regardless of the age of the pupil. The majority of incidents recorded are for boys, but there are a scattering of

girls that were caned from time to time.

The Master would, in all the cases in the table below, be Mr Walter Wetherell.

Corporal Punishment in schools was abolished by law in 1987. Though it would appear that the use of the cane at Bodsham School

was ended quite some time before the change in the law. The last entry in the book is in the early 1950s.

 

 Date  Name

Approx.Age

 Punishment   What for  By Whom
4th Feb 1901 William Hayward

Caned Swearing in the play-ground The Master
4th Feb 1901 John Worrell

   10

Caned Swearing in the play-ground The Master
24th April 1901 Elvy Birchett

   6

Caned Rudeness and Disobedience The Master
25th April 1901 William Hayward

 

 Caned Using bad language The Master
25th April 1901 Frank Hayward

 

 Caned Using bad language The Master
25th April 1901 Arthur Goldfinch

 

 Caned Using bad language The Master
4th July 1901 Archie Knowler

 

 Caned For insolence The Master
12th Nov 1901 Leonard Birchett

   11

Caned Disobedience & Insolence The Master
12th Nov 1901 Alfred Southen

 

 Caned Disobedience & Insolence The Master
19th Dec 1901 Cecil Mills

 

 Caned Cigarette smoking during the Dinner hour The Master
19th Dec 1901 Charles Coleman

 

 Caned Cigarette smoking during the Dinner hour The Master
30th Jan 1902 Alfred Southen

 

 Caned Deceit The Master
6th Feb 1902 William Hayward

 

 Caned For being 1/2 hour late The Master
6th Feb 1902 Frank Hayward

   12

Caned For being 1/2 hour late The Master
6th Feb 1902 Alfred Southen Caned For being 1/2 hour late The Master
6th Feb 1902 Albert Southen

Caned For being 1/2 hour late The Master
6th Feb 1902 Leonard Birchett

   12

Caned For being 1/2 hour late The Master
6th Feb 1902 Elvy Birchett

   6

Caned For being 1/2 hour late The Master
5th May 1902 Thomas Hopkins

 

 Caned Rudeness and Lying The Master
15th July 1902 Elvy Birchett

   6

Caned Playing truant The Master
25th Nov 1902 Archie Knowler

 

 Caned Disobedience The Master
25th Nov 1902 Thomas Hopkins

 

 Caned Disobedience The Master
17th Dec 1902 Charles Croucher

   11

Caned Rudeness The Master
12th Jan 1903 Elvy Birchett

   7

Caned Disobedience and Insolence The Master
13th Jan 1903 Leonard Birchett

   13

Caned Disobedience and Insolence The Master
14th Jan 1903 William Oldfield

 

 Caned Playing in School The Master
20th Jan 1903 Leonard Birchett

   13

Caned Using bad language on the play-ground The Master
20th Jan 1903 Cecil Mills

 

 Caned Using bad language on the play The Master
20th Jan 1903 John Worrell

   12

Caned Using bad language on the play The Master
5th Feb 1903 Elvy Birchett

   7

Caned Playing Truant The Master
3rd Apr 1903 Leonard Birchett

   13

Caned Swearing in the play-ground The Master
22nd May 1903 Elizabeth Prebble

   8

Caned Coming late often The Master
22nd May 1903 Annie Hayward

 

 Caned Coming late often The Master
22nd May 1903 Elvy Birchett

   7

Caned Coming late often The Master
22nd April 1904 Thomas Hopkins

 

 Caned Rudeness The Master
22nd April 1904 Elvy Birchett

   8

Caned Disorder and Insolence The Master
4th July 1904 Elvy Birchett

   9

Caned Being 25 minutes late The Master
6th June 1905 Allan Croucher

   10

Caned Using bad language The Master
6th June 1905 Philip Mills

Caned Using bad language The Master
6th June 1905 Thomas Foreman

Caned Using bad language The Master
15th Jan 1906 Allan Croucher

   12

Caned Disobedience and Insolence The Master
16th Jan 1906 Leon Young

Caned Disobedience and Insolence The Master
16th Jan 1906 Philip Mills

Caned Disobedience The Master
2nd March 1906 Philip Mills

Caned Insolence to his teacher The Master
11th Dec 1907 William Foreman

Caned Being rude to girls The Master
25th Feb 1908 Bert Burgess

Caned Insolence to his teacher The Master
5th May 1909 William Hayward

Caned Deceit/ tearing up a drawing card and throwing it away The Master
5th May 1909 Walter Boulding

Caned Deceit/ tearing up a drawing card and throwing it away The Master
5th May 1909 Herbert Hayward

   10

Caned Deceit/ tearing up a drawing card and throwing it away The Master
17th Nov 1909 Bert Mills

   8

Caned Fighting The Master
17th Nov 1909 William Hayward

Caned Fighting The Master
17th Nov 1909 Bob Marsh

Caned Fighting The Master
17th Nov 1909 Ernest Ford

Caned Fighting The Master
9th December 1909 Bert Burgess

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Caned Disobedience The Master
9th December 1909 Bert Mills

   8

Caned Disobedience The Master
9th December 1909 Richard Quested

/

Caned Disobedience The Master
9th December 1909 Norman Hinkley

/

Caned Disobedience The Master
9th December 1909  Charlie Packham

/

Caned Throwing the stove pipe down The Master
26th January 1910 Richard Quested

/

Caned Disobedience leaving the play-ground without permission The Master
27th June 1910 William Hayward

   13

Caned Coming late twice within a week or so without an excuse from their parents.    The Master 
27th June 1910 John Hayward

Caned Coming late twice within a week or so without an excuse from their parents. The Master
27th June 1910 Herbert Hayward

   14

Caned Coming late twice within a week or so without an excuse from their parents. The Master
27th June 1910 Robert Marsh

   11

Caned Coming late twice within a week or so without an excuse from their parents. The Master