John Lennon's school detention sheet has sold for £2,500 ($3,786).

The 1955-56 document from Liverpool's Quarry Bank High School auctioned within estimate at Sotheby's Rock and Pop auction this afternoon.

John Lennon was a regular in detention - as this sheet demonstrates

'No Hwk', 'Impertinence', 'Talk after 2 warnings' and 'Further talk' are among the future Beatle's transgressions.

Lennon was a pupil at Quarry Bank from 1952 to 1957. He used the name as the inspiration for his first band, the Quarrymen.

The sheet was saved from a fire at the school in the 1970s.

A historic contract the Beatles signed with manager Brian Epstein sold for £365,000 ($553,000) at the same sale.

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