Percy Parker is famous for his wonderful songs which help children to learn their times tables in Maths lessons. Percy also recently released a musical, called Percy Parker’s Flying Bathtub, which is based on topics from the Key Stage 2 curriculum. As mentioned in a previous post, you can download free samples from the first pack, ‘The Tudors to the 20th Century’, on Teaching Ideas.

To celebrate the release of the second pack in this series, ‘Ancient History and Invaders’, Scholastic have kindly donated a copy of Percy Parker’s Flying Bathtub as a competition prize for visitors to Teaching News. The prize includes:

• The Tudors to the 20th Century pack,
• Ancient History and Invaders pack,
• A Percy Parker binder to store the resources.

UPDATE – This competition is now closed.

Many Year Six classes put on a performance at the end of the year to mark the end of their time at their primary school. Although the end of the academic year is still a few months away,  here are details of a new musical for those teachers who want to plan ahead!

‘Fame Idle is the story of three kids who are confused why everyone around them seem obsessed by celebrity culture and they are not. It’s a musical comedy with a moral message… “Fame ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.” It has a modern score and a witty script that follows Bobby, P.J. and Smudge as they discover what friendship means when faced with a chance of fame – but at what cost?’

Here is a video which highlights some photos and audio from the production:

Many schools have already put on their own performances of the musical and received extremely positive feedback. To find out more for yourself, visit www.fame-idle.co.uk.