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Article: NEW PLANE OF TEACHING; Education School of the Week THIS week, Education Reporter BEN TURNER went to Archbishop Beck Catholic sports college, in Walton, and discovered why a Big Brother diary room and throwing paper aeroplanes in class are nothing out of the ordinary.(Features)
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- Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- February 3, 2009
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Byline: BEN TURNER
NOW when I went to school, to throw a paper aeroplane at another pupil right under the teacher's nose was asking for trouble.
A ticking-off, lines and quite possibly a detention - even for goody-two-shoes Turner.
But at Archbishop Beck, this sort of behaviour is actively encouraged.
The school however has not gone soft.
The plane throwing in question is a prime example of how the school has added creativity across the curriculum.
Sneaking in at the back of an English lesson, half of the class are ...