Here’s a quick reminder about our special competition where you can win a copy of Percy Parker’s Flying Bathtub. Entries close this Friday 4th June, so send your entries in now!

UPDATE – This competition is now closed.

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.

Percy Parker is a groovy grandad who has been popular in schools for many years now. He sings songs which help children to learn their times tables and there are some free downloads from Percy’s CD on Teaching Ideas.

Percy is now back with a brand new cross-curricular resource called ‘Percy Parker’s Flying Bathtub’. There are songs and resources covering a wide range of history, geography, science and other curriculum topics. If you’re studying the Tudors in class, for instance, there’s a fifteen-minute scene (including two songs) based on the Tudors that you can read through in your classroom and perhaps perform simply in an assembly. If another year group is studying Food Chains or Vikings or Outer Space, there are scenes for them too. And if you want to put on a full-scale school production, just put everyone’s scenes together and hey presto – a musical!

Andrew Holdsworth, the creator of Percy Parker, has kindly allowed me to have a look at the resource and I’m extremely impressed. It includes:

• A folder full of scripts, musical scores, lyrics, costume ideas, production and choreography advice. There is also background information about the curriculum area that each scene relates to.
• An audio CD containing all 15 tracks from the production (with and without vocals) as well as relevant sound effects which you can use.
• A CD-Rom with teaching ideas, choreography ideas, editable scripts, projectable backdrop images and lots more.

Percy Parker’s Flying Bathtub (Tudors to 20th Century) is available now here. Two other packs have also been produced:

• ‘Ancient History and Invaders’ will be available from May 2010.
• ‘Science and Nature’ will be available from September 2010.

FREE DOWNLOAD – You can also find out more at Teaching Ideas and get yourself an exclusive free download from the resource.