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Many of you have recently expressed a desire through our Skills Survey to be more aware of training and CPD opportunities, with over 60% of you even willing to fund qualifications yourself. This week we share information around one of our most fit for purpose qualifications we offer, the Supporting PE in School Sport Level 2 (PESS L2).

As a 1st4sport Accredited Centre we have been delivering the PESS L2 qualification for over a year now and have had over 60 Activity Professionals already go through the qualification.

After some months of development, we’re pleased to announce the new enhancements to the Planning Framework went live last week. You view the changes in this supporting document which is also available on the resources section under "Delivery".

In the process of making these changes ‘live’, we encountered an error which meant some of your ‘Learning Outcomes’ that you uploaded last week (16th-20th), may not have been saved.

If you have uploaded ‘Learning Outcomes’ to the ‘Pupil Assessments’ section last week, please make sure you check to see if these were saved correctly.

Apologies for any inconvenienced caused during this upgrade.

We’re now at the halfway stage of the research pilot which we’re undertaking with the ukactive Research Institute and the Universities of Greenwich and Aberystwyth. The interim findings have been very interesting and positive, so much so the DfE now want to sit with us to discuss, the project, the impact and the potential.

CEO David Batch and Luke Miles will be meeting with senior representative of the Department for Education in March. The pilot findings will be published at a launch event to key stakeholders including the DfE, DoH, Public Health England plus many more in the Autumn.

This year will be no different to previous years as we continue to strengthen our relationship with key national press partners, like The Times. Not only will the brand grow even stronger nationally, this will inevitably increase exposure on a localised level as we drive readers to book onto courses.

Here is an advert that featured in The Times last weekend.

Three children from Hollesley Primary School Suffolk have become the first children in the county to walk over 100 miles each, as part of The Golden Mile health and activity initiative at their school...and they are all part of the same family!

Sam Williams (age 10) Summa Williams (age 7) and Sacha Williams (age 5) have walked 168,124 and 139 miles respectively since November last year, around the schools’ Golden Mile Track. Every day, the three siblings will clock up Golden Miles before and after school.

Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew MBE will be on hand to give some gold medal winning advice to London’s primary school children on Monday 9th March 2015. Duncan will be visiting St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School in Highgate in the morning before a group of lucky competition winners from St Joseph’s will take to the pool at Archway Leisure Centre receiving once-in-a-lifetime advice from the gold medal winning swimmer.

You must check out this very powerful YouTube video from Business Mentor, James Ashford.

In this short video, James tells you the ultimate marketing strategy for businesses and it couldn’t be more relevant following Yvonne Gandy’s closing session at the #NTE15.

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

• February 2015 issue 1
• January 2015 issue 2
• January 2015 issue 1
• December 2014 issue 2
• December 2014 issue 1
• November 2014 issue 2
• November 2014 issue 1
• October 2014 issue 2
• October 2014 issue 1
• September 2014
• August 2014