When Glenn Fisher attended Filton Hill Primary School in the 1960s, naughty children were hauled before the headmaster. 'We would stand in front of him shamed-faced and he would always ask us whether we had anything to say for ourselves? We never did, of course, and most of the time it was as much as we could do to muffle our giggles. ' The cane, however, was painful. 'When we re-entered the classroom everyone would ask, "does it hurt?" to which you would try your hardest to say, "not at all."'

Glen remembers he and his classmates once burst into uncontrollable laughter at a painting showing people wearing tights. A teacher overheard them and the boys were smacked for crude talk.

Later at Filton High School, boys played pranks during rugby. A selected 'victim' would be shoved over and one of his shoes removed. The boys would shout, 'the shock has been too much! He needs oxygen!' and 'the shoe, usually smelling of the owners socks, would then be placed over the nose of the victim!'

According to Glen, the threat of corporal punishment meant pupils respected staff. One eccentric teacher made boys sit in the wastepaper basket as a punishment or hit them on the palm of the hand with a dessertspoon. In the sixties too there was the advent of the mini skirt and the girls had to kneel on the floor to have their skirts measured. Skirts deemed too short were lengthened, which Glen recalls, 'the boys regarded as a shame.'