Grade 5 and 6 boys were more likely to get a smacked bottom for minor things (though a hand strapping wasn’t unheard of, especially from that Brother).
Serious offenses could lead to a more formal strapping across the bottom virtually always in private.
They gave us a certain amount of time to settle into the school – corporal punishment was only rarely used in our first few weeks at the school.
The rate started to pick up midway through our first term, and I copped a spanking around that time.
So did other boys and a couple even found themselves sent to the headmaster for more formal punishments
we had a female teacher who was perfectly prepared to smack or spank boys
though she didn’t do it that often, but for anything that warranted a possible strapping she tended to send us up to the head.
Boys tended to come back in serious distress.