Yours,

Phil Gaffer
Business Development Director
Premier Education Group

We welcome Akin to the Premier Sport network this month as he launches his franchise in the Wolverhampton territory. Wolverhampton is a part of the world he knows well as, over the last nine years, he has been teaching in a local secondary school. He enjoyed the challenging role of Head of Department (ICT) as well as a KS3 leader.

Before becoming a teacher, Akin demonstrated his natural ability to inspire children by being a Social Worker working with disadvantaged children. This natural skill and passion can be further demonstrated with Akin being a volunteer for the Youth Offending Service ensuring that disillusioned children did not offend.

We are pleased to announce that, from August 2014 to now, we have already carried out more assessments on Activity Professionals than the whole of the previous year August 2013 - September 2014.

To date, 1084 assessments have been scheduled or carried out across the network. As we enter the half way stage of the summer term, Activity Professionals should now be receiving their 3rd assessment of the year. These are great opportunities to monitor staff improvement and performance, making CPD recommendations ready for the new school year.

Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew MBE took to the pool yesterday along with the pupils at St George’s RC Primary School in Taunton for an inspirational once-in-a-lifetime experience.

The day itself was arranged by the Marketing team on behalf of franchisee Andrew Overhill, which included the significant investment in Duncan’s time as well as creation of pre and post press releases to his local newspapers.

Do you remember us telling you PPA licensee, Bethan Bradshaw was nominated for the 2015 Young Entrepreneur of the Year in Essex? Well, she only went and won...

Award winning Bethan collected her award from Stevie Ritchie (former X-Factor contestant) who commented “What Bethan does ensures young people are off the streets and out of trouble. Her selfless fundraising with children, in her own time, ensures they gain access to better facilities and opportunities to dance and perform.”

This year, Change4Life and Disney are back, working with ukactive to encourage families and kids to team up to shake up with their favourite Disney characters!

Change4Life require a commitment from our network to run free events aimed at children and families from July to the end of September 2015. These can be taster sessions, special events and offers encouraging everyone to get active in their local community. For example family fun days, open days, taster sessions or other brilliantly creative and imaginative activities aimed at children and families. You could provide offers and discounts to attract new members. We’ll also need you to keep a record of how many people attended your Change4Life events and provide case studies for us to promote the campaign during and after the summer.

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