MARION MCMULLEN does her homework on celebrities in the classroom as a new term finally gets under way

GOLD star for you if you can remember your old school classmates... Sir Paul Mccartney was a classroom doodler and his old school exercise book was covered with little drawings. The Beatles star used the 22-page book during English literature lessons when he was a teenager at the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys.

The book sold for £46,800 at auction last year and Paul’s doodles ran alongside his essays on classic books like Thomas Hardy’s The Return Of The Native and John Milton’s Paradise Lost.

Fellow Beatle John Lennon went to school with comedian Jimmy Tarbuck and broadcaster Peter Sissons and they were all pupils at Dovedale Junior School in Liverpool.

John later went to Quarry Bank High School in the city, but was described as a “class clown”. He was often given detention – once racking up three in one day – and left when he was 16. He failed his O levels and was only accepted at Liverpool College of Art after pleas from his headmaster and his Aunt Mimi.

Rolling Stones bandmates

Sir Mick Jagger and Keith Richards met when they were both pupils at Wentworth Junior Primary School in Dartford, in Kent in 1951. Mick went on to Dartford Grammar while Keith Richards went to Dartford Technology College, but they ran into each other at the local railway station in 1961 when they both happened to be carrying guitars.

One of James Bond star Daniel Craig’s early acting roles was playing one of the ugly sisters with classmate Richard Kelly in a production of Cinderella at Hilbre High School. He was 16 at the time and his Wirral drama teacher Hilary Green said: “The pair of them were absolutely hilarious and had the audience in stitches every night.”

Fellow 007 star Pierce Brosnan began his school days at St Anne’s Primary School in Navan in Ireland. He has said: “I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education.”

Welsh-born Oscar winner