I was caned twice at primary school, both times in the fourth year (10-11), but was also the recipient of at least a dozen rulerings from class teachers during my primary years.
My first sight of the cane was, belive it or not, at age 5. I would only have been at school for a short time, probably only for a few days, and was playing in the sand pit located in a large corridor outside our classroom, when Mr Negus, the headmaster strode by cane in hand into the classroom next door(I guess the kids in there would have been about 6 or 7). Although it’s more than 50 years ago I can still picture his red, angry face, his raised voice and then the loud cracks followed by children crying out.