When children come home with something they have made at school it is usually a Mother's Day card or a papier mache tortoise, not a highly-detailed model of a football stadium.

But this remarkable miniature version of Barnet FC's Underhill ground is the handiwork of 17-year-old Adam Warner.

The London Academy pupil was taking a design and technology course when he and teacher Neil Hassell came up with the idea. Adam then painstakingly went through the process of making the model look as realistic as possible, using balsa wood and matchsticks to create a stadium complete with goals, floodlights, dug-outs and a sponsors' lounge.

His father, Ian, explained his pride at his son's efforts: "We have been going to Underhill for ten years and stand in the north-west corner. Adam has even included the crash barrier where we stand. He brought the model home last July at the end of the school year, and has added bits to it ever since. He designed the floodlights with the pylons exactly as they are. It is a tremendous effort."

Barnet chairman Tony Kleanthous was so impressed with the piece that he arranged for himself and defender Simon King to take a closer look, and visited Adam at school.

Adam told Between the Lines: "I was pleased to see Tony Kleanthous' positive reaction. He noticed that all the bits of the stadium were there. I was happy to meet Simon King - it was the second time he had visited my school and I had met him then.

"To build the model, I took photographs of the stadium. Then, with Mr Hassell, I drew a scaled plan, before building the model, section by section. "My favourite part was building the table on which the model stands and painting it in Barnet's colours."

Mr Kleanthous now hopes to keep the mini-Underhill at a new club museum which is planned to be started later this year as part of the Bees' centenary celebrations.