Rose Hardy, headmistress at the £19,300-a-year Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Girls ... and putting people in dunce caps.” Mrs Hardy is the latest in a string of headteachers to criticise ...

YOUNGSTERS at a Blackburn school turned the clock back ... with slates and ink pens and had to wear a dunce's hat if they failed the tests. The Victorian theme stretched into the playground ...

A lesson in Victorian education has been delivered to primary pupils as they stepped back in time to when their school was built ... and they all loved the dunce’s hat. We even inspected ...

and their pointy hats became symbols of this ignominious new reputation. The heyday of the dunce cap (or the low point of disruptive children) seems to have been the Victorian era, when use of the ...

It's like something from Victorian times when children were made to sit in the corner wearing a dunce hat.' Josie joined the school on Nell Lane, Chorlton since she was in year nine and had been ...

Bedfordshire school allowed children who hit reading ... "It's the equivalent of putting a dunce's hat on them in Victorian times. "And of course, if only five to 10 per cent of pupils are hitting ...

At the start of the Victorian era, most children worked long days to support their families. School was not free and ... These made the rooms gloomy and stuffy. Classes were overcrowded, sometimes ...