A traditional prep school is not where you would naturally expect a pop hit to evolve from.
But Amesbury Preparatory School in Surrey, England - is bidding for chart success with their version of pop star Pixie Lott’s No1 record Boys & Girls. The quality of the video has astonished the music entertainment industry and has already raced up the YouTube charts with more than 40,000 views in just two days.
The school have recorded the track and filmed the accompanying video to raise awareness of a little known condition that killed a former pupil.
Instead of working to a budget in the tens of thousands, like other music videos, this one did not cost a penny to make. As Headmaster Nigel Taylor explained: “We’re a traditional prep school, tucked away in leafy Surrey. The oldest child is 13 and the whole project has been done on a shoestring.”
The music video features 200 boys and girls, a narcissistic Headmaster (Taylor, who sits polishing a photograph of himself), ostentatiously bored children, an unrequited love affair and a chaotic teacher, whose classroom discipline is not what you’d want as a parent. As the teacher loses control, boys and girls go wild until teacher decides to follow the old adage that if you can’t beat them…