Dear Headteachers,

We hope you enjoyed your well-earned Half-Term break.

Since we spoke last month, the Department for Education asked afPE and the YST to create a national template to aid you, your Governors and teaching staff in evidencing the impact of the Primary PE & Sport Premium.

At the core of the services we offer to you is the delivery and enhancement of the National Curriculum for PE including, creative development. The programmes we offer at Premier Sport, Premier Performing Arts, The Golden Mile and our team of qualified Activity Professionals who deliver them, work in partnership and alongside your school to help achieve your objectives.

The School Games were established in 2011 and are a competition over four levels for school children aged 5 to under 19. The School Games are designed to build on the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and enable every school and child to participate in competitive sport, including opportunities for disabled youngsters.

This statistical release presents the cost per participant of the School Games. More specifically, it derives the average public sector cost per eligible student at schools participating in the School Games for the 2014/15 academic year. This measure was initially developed as an input indicator to measure the performance of the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS).

If you’re not already registered and using our Schools Portal, you’re missing out on the following benefits –

• Online access all our Activity Professionals profiles, their qualifications, DBS numbers and safeguarding certification.
• View our short term and long term planning framework for all the provision we provide your school.
• Pupil attainment and impact measurement records for every pupil – proves valuable when Ofsted come knocking!

You may have always associated us with providing sport in schools but did you know we provide structured curricular time provision through dance, drama and music too?

To help us find out if providing specialist performing arts delivery in your school would be of interest, we would really appreciate if you could complete our very short survey.

To say thanks, we’re offering EVERY school that completes the survey a chance of winning a £100 Premier Performing Arts voucher*.