I recall her asking me a question and I could not answer it. Very often this would qualify for the strap and I was petrified. On this occasion she used humiliation. She called me “rubbish”. I was rubbish to her and I was made to feel like rubbish. She often described me as “rubbish” if something was in disagreement with her.
The next incident happened in the playground. I was sitting on the seat outside picking at my lunch. The incident resulted in my dropping a soft-boiled egg on to the seat. I can remember some of the egg falling down to the ground through the gaps in the seat. This created laughs from others and drew the attention of Miss Collin. When she saw the egg, she called me a ‘pig’. I was made to wash it down while everyone looked on. The degradation I felt was very devastating.