After getting the belt, I always used to sit at my desk and rub my palms together between my thighs, I had this daft idea that the pain would be rubbed away as I did that, (even as I type I can feel it all over again) the best way to ease it was cold water, but that was not always available.
Most times here it was given in front of the whole class, and of course I did not want to show too much hurt, but in the third year girls were sometimes sent to the head female teacher for beltings and then it was done in private. I was always a bit of a Tom Boy at school, so in front of others did not bother me.