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The Core Value Challenge - “WOW” us and WIN £250!

We are excited to announce the launch of our brand new Core Value Challenge! We’ve trialled this at Head Office; its great fun, builds team morale and inspires you to remain above the line at all times. You may even be £250 better off too.

We’ll start with Core Value #1 this week – Be happy, have fun and give joy.

So, here’s how it works and what you need to do...

Your line manage will create a WhatsApp group and add you to it.
He/she will ask each of you to send a video stating how you have met the Core Value that week. The cut off point is always Friday at 5pm. Videos must be no longer than 1 minute.
You line manager will then pick ONE video that really stands out to them.
HQ will then judge all the videos we receive and pick the top 3.
The top 3 will be added to Facebook and Twitter for parents to vote on. The Activity Professional video with the most likes, favourites, etc will WIN £250!

So, the deadline for you to send your video to your line manager is 5PM Friday 3rd June. And the deadline for franchisees to forward the best ones onto head office is 9AM Monday 6th June. When we announce the overall winner, we will also give details of the next Core Value Challenge.

Time to be happy, have fun and give joy!

Educational Excellence Everywhere...

‘Every child and young person can access high quality provision, achieving to the best of his or her ability, regardless of location and prior attainment of background’

The Government’s White Paper, Education Excellence Everywhere, strategy overview (March 2016) and the intention to make all schools Academies by 2020 is causing concern. Threats to strike over the push towards academisation are being backed by unions as this goes to press – however, I would like to use the key elements, taken from the White Paper, as a framework to highlight key points raised in the paper. Let’s also take time to reflect on Physical Education and Sport (PESS) and the use of external providers in schools and academies...

WEBINAR How are you committing to continual improvement this week?

Did you tune into Andy’s recent webinar? The 30 minute session was around Core Value #4 ‘Committing to Continual Improvement’. If you missed the session, view the video above for another chance to up-skill yourself.

“My Personal Best” Initiative is Launched!

With English children’s fitness levels on a downward spiral (declining at a rate of 0.95% annually), Premier Sport have developed a brand new fitness initiative, backed by ukactive, to help combat this issue.

Last Thursday (19th May), the initiative was launched at a North London school by Premier Sport and ukactive, accompanied by Duncan Goodhew MBE and GB athletes Romaine Bailey and Lee Shinkin.

Schools in Islington and Camden were given the chance to sign up to the brand new initiative, which involves four bleep tests over the space of a year, which will help to identify when children are most inactive.

WEBINAR The Schools Portal – Work Smarter, not Harder...

If you would like to learn how to use the Schools Portal to sell and share impact of the work you do, then catch up on Andy's webinar.

New Apprenticeships Exceed All Expectations

When we launched our new partnership with Creative Sport & Leisure (CSL) as national apprenticeship provider back in August 2015, we could never imagine the impact it would have on the network.

Based on previous years, the ambitious target of 50 apprentices was set and surpassed in the first two months. Entering the final term of the year we are just shy of 100 apprentices in learning, across the network.

In the coming months, we will be following some of their career journeys as they report on their progress with Premier.