Premier Education Group (PEG) is delighted to announce that Steve Mitchell will be joining our team in an advisory consultant role for the Skills and Compliance department. As part of Steve’s new role, he would like to carry out a Skills audit survey across the network for all stakeholders.

The purpose of this survey is to assess your qualifications in line with aspirations and in the process highlight any gaps in the two. We can then use this information to design programmes for you in the future.

We’re pleased to share with you the launch of our brand new PEG online training platform. Over time we will be phasing in a number of training opportunities including induction and core training modules.

First to be launched is our new bespoke course, Safeguarding & Protecting Children and Vulnerable People.

This e-learning resource aims to meet statutory training requirements for minimum operating standards, so that your line manager can be assured that you are up-to-date with practises around Child Protection and is available to purchase from the online store at a new lower cost of £20.00.

We will update the network as new modules become live.

We are very close to announcing our first year’s annual Premier Business Awards. One of the awards up for grabs is the Activity Professional Excellence Award. Awarded to two Activity Professionals from the Premier Education Group network through nominations and positive feedback from your line manager, schools and our parent network.

We will contact your line manager in the next couple of weeks if you have won an award. If you’re a winner, you will be invited to our 2014 National Training Event in February.

Good Luck!

The end of the first term is only 2 weeks away so time is fast running out for you to be assessed by your line manager.

This term, only half of the Activity Professional network has been assessed. As a result of this, the other half remains unaware of their performance and areas for improvement within their delivery.

If you haven’t been assessed ask your line manager NOW!

Once you have been assessed, our new 2015 training programme will then allow your line manager to book your CDP for 2015.

This week we are delighted to introduce another young entrepreneur who is starting out on his business career with Premier Sport. Marcus Lahiff now owns the Premier Sport franchise in East Ham, London. Marcus took some time out this week to share with us his experiences to date, from working in a franchise to owning his own franchise.

As you might have seen via our Facebook page, we sent a survey to our parent database earlier this month requesting feedback about our Chewits Sport Courses.

The results below are a credit to all of our Activity Professionals...

• 99% of parents ‘strongly agreed’ or ‘agreed’ they are happy with the variety of sports offered during the school holidays.
• 96% of parents ‘strongly agreed’ or ‘agreed’ that they find the Activity Professionals (coaches) to be friendly, helpful and knowledgeable.

At the beginning of November we asked the 1000s of schools we deliver PE and Sport in to complete a short survey. We’ve been overwhelmed by the number of schools that have completed the survey and the results so far.

Schools have until Friday 19th December to compete the survey but here’s one stat we couldn’t wait to share with you -

96% of schools have rated overall effectiveness of the service provided as outstanding or good.

170 children from Grundisburgh Primary School in Suffolk have taken their first golden steps within the safety of their own school grounds after launching a successful national physical activity initiative called The Golden Mile.

Don’t worry if you’ve missed any newsletters, here are the links to the previous ones we’ve sent you since August –

• November 2014 issue 2
• November 2014 issue 1
• October 2014 issue 2
• October 2014 issue 1
• September 2014
• August 2014