did you receive corporal punishment at school

I have often wondered whether corporal punishment was used in more schools of a specific type than others in Britain prior to abolition. I get the impression it was used widely in secondary modern schools, sometimes by staff ill qualified to teach, with little academic ambition, or poor disciplinarians. I know boys independent schools used it, often as part of the tradition to breed tough but disciplined gentlemen. How far was it used in girls independent, direct grant and state grammar schools? In the state system I know each county had its rules for corporal punishment and who might administer it.