"A hulking dinosaur is set to smash up Croydon's iconic town centre on Saturday - and children are being invited to help the monster," said the paper. "BBC TV presenter Richard DeDomenici will be donning a Godzilla outfit to destroy a scale model of the town. The model was started by children on 13 November and the plan is to finish the structure on 20 November before DeDomenici unleashes the full force of the prehistoric monster suit."
A spokesman for the council told the paper: "It's fun arts projects like this that get young people interested in where they live. We are in the process of trying to rebuild the centre of Croydon to make it a fantastic place for future generations.
"Of course, if developers do want to start again with any of the existing buildings, we expect they will call in the professionals - not Godzilla."
A Staffordshire primary school is to ban pupils from putting their hands up when they know an answer - because it "alienates" less intelligent children, reported the Daily Telegraph.
"Children at Ormiston Sir Stanley Matthews Academy in Stoke-on-Trent will now have to wait to be asked questions in class, rather than putting themselves forward," said the paper. "The radical new plan comes after teachers at the school worked alongside teaching guru Professor Dylan Wiliam - who claims that asking children to put their hands up alienates other pupils. Teachers will now be picking pupils at random to answer questions to stop brighter and more outgoing children from answering too many questions."
Assistant principal Lynne Jones told the paper: "It means there's no hiding place for children in a lesson, there's no opt out." Teachers will also stop grading pupils' work. "Professor Wiliam, from London's Institute of Education, has advised teachers to write comments about pupils' work on separate pieces of paper - and make them guess which comment is meant for their work," said the Telegraph.
Head teacher Mark Stanyer explained: "What we are trying to achieve is to get pupils to think for themselves." And do the marking for you ... Wonder what football legend Sir Stanley would have made of it all. Stop scoring goals, Stan, it's alienating other footballers.
"If James Hyatt was old enough to understand the concept, his family would say he is blessed with beginner's luck," said the Daily Mail.
A three-year-old treasure hunter struck gold on his first attempt at metal detecting. Just minutes into his search, James unearthed a 16th century gold locket potentially worth £2.5m. "James, who is now four, was on a metal detecting trip with his father and grandfather in May last year when he asked to try the equipment," said the Mail.
James told the paper: "I was holding the detector and it went beep, beep, beep. Then we dug into the mud. There was gold there. We didn't have a map - only pirates have treasure maps."
