Excellent idea - wasn't there a school built aircraft in the news a year or two back?
Truro School built an Evans VP-2 around 1980 as a school project which I recall was exhibited at Farnborough. It was registered to thd Head Master (G-BTSC).
Around the time I left (1982), some of the techie guys at my school started building a canard aircraft as an A Level project under the new technology master. He'd designed it as a project while at Cranfield Institute of Technology. Not sure how far towards completion it got as Bruce the main pupil driving the project left the year after I did, but I recall seeing the components completed for the foreplane or a wing I think.