As I said some of the whackings given there were almost playful and for this reason might not be strictly construed as capable of scaring pupils into good behaviour. There are , I think, many questions regarding the activities of some teachers who administered corporal punishment (especially to young females) during the fifties and sixties which will probably never be properly answered.
I’d have said it was fairly typical of an Infant/Junior school of its period, late 1940s to early 1950s. I doubt if many children went through their time there without encountering CP themselves, and certainly they’d all see classmates so punished. But equally I doubt if many of them regarded it as other than a fairly happy period of their lives. The associated Senior school was perhaps a different matter. There were definitely some unhappy memories of canings there, but I never attended that section of the school.