Private School News

Percy Parker’s Flying Fridge

Percy Parker was born five years ago when Andrew Holdsworth was asked by a science teacher at Hurst Lodge School to compose a song to help his pupils remember their physics formulae. Five volunteers from years 7 and 8 formed the “Percy Parker Band” and spent many hours in the school recording songs which are now sung daily by thousands of children at schools all over the UK and beyond.

“Percy Parker – The Musical” started life on a beach in Cyprus two summers ago with a fairly ridiculous plot about the time-travelling adventures of Mozart, Gandi and an angry duck called Reggie with Percy Parker in his flying fridge. The musical has been expanded to include fifteen scenes about history and science.

The first performance of part of the musical was seen at Hurst Lodge School last weekend. The children at the school played all of the characters and an audience of around 200 people enjoyed the performances.

It is planned to develop the musical and perform it in front of other audiences and at other venues.