Most of the time, you were hauled outside for a swiftly placed smack or three to the legs and a scolding. I got this treatment several times in Infants, mercifully, if that’s the word, a couple of times more upstairs, and nothing worse.
Headmistress’es-study visits were the best place to see the strap! Miss Baxter(all my time there in 1957-1961) usually producing an evil-looking Lochgelly product, would then most times decide to bend over here and now for 6 with the ruler(which was the big thick sort with which Teech drew on the board)was a better idea for all concerned.
The old moo usually said your classmates will be upset to see a strapping in class. When that classroom treat did happen, which I can remember four times, it was hold out each hand for one & then both together for a third. One girl got it & she cried less than all the boys!