Perry Parsons joined Vyners School in September 1968 as a probationary teacher and took early retirement in the summer of 1997, after 29 years. He held various departmental and pastoral roles in the school and took an active interest in most areas, particularly sport, music, drama, organising discos, charity and community service, and he was on various local committees, such as Friends of Vyners and the Ickenham Community Forum. Perry continues to work at Vyners on a part-time basis and has directed the Vyners Swing Band since 1988. In 2006 he won the title Hero of Hillingdon and was awarded an MBE in 2007.

The Perry Parsons Big Band

"The Perry Parsons Big Band" (PPBB) came into being in 2002. They originally got together as members of the Vyners Swing Band or VSB (insert link to vyners history page ) based at Vyners School in Ickenham, Middlesex at which Perry was a history teacher. Being based on secondary school students, members inevitably left school to commence work or undertake courses of Further or Higher Education, but such was the attraction of the VSB, older members couldn't stay away for long and returned to play with the band whenever possible. As a result, a breakaway band of older members - affectionately referred to as the "Old Swingers" - was formed in 1997, playing more challenging arrangements in a wide range of styles. This group thrived with an undying passion for playing and, in 2000, renamed themselves the "Red Hot Swinging Mullets" purely for a tour of the Rhine/Moselle, Germany. This name stuck for the next year and a half until they decided to launch themselves under their new name, The Perry Parsons Big Band.