His normal mode was to use not a normal school cane but lengths of dowel rod from his wood store. We had seen him use a variety of rods according to the age and offence. Our woodwork room was directly across from the domestic science room. Once the ds teacher had sent an older boy who was doing cookery for his options choices, across to the woodwork class for the cane from Mr P. We saw him remove a much larger length of dowel to cane this older boy. We kept our heads well down that afternoon having witnessed a hell of a caning, well it seemed that way to us younger boys. One day whilst in Mr P’s maths lesson we had all received a warning to keep quiet as he needed to concentrate on doing some marking.