Schools in the past used different tools and methods for teaching children compared to modern schools. Children sat in rows at wooden desks and were taught using slates, copy books, and abacuses. Teachers maintained discipline by using punishments like making children wear dunce hats or striking their hands with canes for misbehaving. At the end of each school day, teachers documented lessons and events in logbooks.

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2. This is a school bell. The teacher
would ring the bell at the start and
end of school.

3. This is a school desk. Children would
sit at these desks in lines in front of
the teacher.

4. This is a slate and pen. Children
wrote on these before there was
paper and pencils.

5. This is a copy book. Children would
have to practise writing correctly
over and over again.

6. This is an abacus. Children used
these to help them to do their maths
work.

7. This is a dunces hat. The teacher
made you wear this if you were
being silly.

8. This is a cane. Teachers used this as a
punishment when a child did
something wrong.

9. This is a logbook. In it the teacher
would write all that happened in a
day.

10. This is a logbook. In it the teacher
would write all that happened in a
day.