150 on Tuesday!

On Tuesday we had an 1863 themed day. We had to dress up as an olden day kid and get to school an old fashion way. The way I got to school was on my pony and there were about ten more kids riding their ponies. When we got to school we got a pony club picture and our parents took the ponies home.

We all went to our classes and had to sit down at a table. The girls sat separately to the boys ( which was good ). The work was really easy and really BORING. My teacher was really mean and was caning and all the kids were laughing their heads off and my teacher Mr Forsyth was laughing as he was caning.

In assembly there were three boys who had to go up the front and tell the rest of the school how they were doing with their sports training. One of them forgot to say sir at the end of ( yes sir ) he just said yes, so he had to lean on the chair and Mr Winders caned him in front of the school! He just hit the chair but accidentally hit the boy once so the boy limped back to his seat. After that torture we all sang God save the Queen.

The caning!!

Then we went back to our classrooms and did some hand writing in olden day books. Whenever a teacher or older citizen came in we had to stand up.

At morning tea all the girls were not allowed on the field with the boys and the boys were not allowed to come where the girls were.

After that we went back to class and did some maths which was fun but boring. Then we had to go out for drills and that was fun. We did star jumps and bends over each side and putting our foot out the side and in fast when he said to.

After that all the girls had to sit at the junior playground to eat and play but we were allowed to play on the court and the boys had to sit in the intermediate seating and the boys were only allowed to play on the field and on the big kids playground. At one o’clock the Arrow miners band came and performed on the court and we all danced like cowboys and cowgirls. Then the bell rang and we had to go and line up in front of our classrooms and wait for our teachers.

We went in and sat down and started to line up again for folk dancing drill on the court. We had to do a heel toe one and a Pigeon house one then we went back to class and went home. By the way the kids didn’t really get caned it was just pretend.

                                                                                              By Tessa

Me in the green bonnet!