As the new school year is well under way, I would like to congratulate you on your sterling efforts over the last 12 months.

The progress is clear to see and in some instances, phenomenal success has been achieved. We have had records broken each term for numerous key indicators and we are delighted for you all.

As always, we aim to improve our support over the following 12 months as we aim to bring more high quality sport and physical activity to more young people.

We would like you to ask yourselves the following three questions:

1. Where do you want to be in 3 years time?
2. What does success look like for you?
3. Do you have the ambition and drive to run your own sport and physical activity business with Premier Sport?

The first two questions are just food for thought, if the answer is YES to the third question, we have a long and successful history of supporting Activity Professionals to realise their dreams.

Our knowledge and experience tells us that behaviour management and control of classes is one of the key criteria for setting the foundations for children’s learning and development in PE lessons.

To give you an added confidence boost for delivering PE lessons, please read these 10 essential tips for Behaviour Management.

Premier Sport’s National Coach and Training Development Officer, Andy Heald unexpectedly covered a PE lesson and found himself being observed by Ofsted inspectors – the decision to go ahead with the PE lesson proved to be an ‘outstanding’ one by the Head Teacher.

A Premier Sport franchisee found himself in a bizarre situation last month and had to rely on the strength of his non compete agreement to resolve it.

Upon receiving notice that one of his Activity Professionals was emigrating to start a new life down under, the franchisee did what any responsible employer would do organising notice periods, handover and leaving party with all his employees.

Please view this training video which will take you through how to obtain a login to the BMS and assist you navigating around the Activity Professionals pages.

Please note – you won’t be able to view the Schools Portal via your BMS access. BMS information feeds directly through to the Schools Portal for Head Teachers and PE coordinators to view.

If you have any questions about your BMS pages, please email Mel in our Skills and Compliance department.

We received more great news last month that another of our PE lessons scored OUTSTANDING by Ofsted. A delighted Mr Shanks from Gaywood Community Primary School in Norfolk comments following our Activity Professional, Trevor Daniels scored ‘Outstanding’ –

“Trevor was observed as part of our Ofsted inspection in July and the inspector commented to me that his lesson was Outstanding because the children knew exactly what was expected of them and Trevor had planned well and focused on key skills that would develop the children’s knowledge and understanding.”

We know September is always a very busy month with schools returning after the long summer break and our Activity Professionals getting back into the swing of things.

That’s why we thought you might find it useful receiving the ‘Curriculum’ Special Edition newsletter again. The newsletter contains vital information that will prepare you for this school year.