All teachers were allowed to use the slipper and to smack the pupils but the headteacher also had the authority to cane the girls.
In this instance, the girls would wear a yellow sash for a week.
All girls including prefects were liable to be punished.
Also, prefects could give a girl two smacks with a slipper or refer them to the weekly prefects meeting where a sterner punishment could be given.
After hearing all the rules and discipline measures we were told we could return to our dorm.
I was talking to the two girls next to me in the dormitory, Helen and Julie.
Julie said her older sister was a fourth-year and everyone in their year had been slippered and only about five had not been caned at a prefects meeting or by the headmistress, so we had better be prepared for it.