On the surface she was very strict, indeed I have in another posting described what she would do to small boys if she caught them out of their places.
We were taught away from the main buildings of the school in a freezing little wooden hut.
If any pupil complained they were cold she would fix them with her sternest gaze and say”
If your cold the best way to warm up is with a well-smacked bottom”.
It was one of her little jokes and I would often feign coldness just to hear her say that.
If any pupil, although it was always a boy, as all the girls in our class were absolute paragons of virtue, did step over the bounds he would be promised a warm bottom if he did it again.