Friday 26th February 2016

If you charge £250 for a funded course with an allocation for 32 children, it would break down as just £7.81 per head. Whereas by charging £16 per day x 16 children, you’re getting £256 plus vat (this is important as this is equivalent to £19.20 per head for parent funded courses).

With this Match Funded model, schools will receive a fantastic value worth £256 of match funded places! #Collaboration

Since Soak’s marketing communications presentation at #NTE16, 10% of the network have invested in the personalised Landing Pages, which are set to go live very soon. Click to view  a landing page that launched earlier this month.

To help support your decision to invest in a personalised Landing Page for your business, we’ve created a helpful guide below, demonstrating the value and return on your investment.

Drama is currently the hottest topic of conversation in primary schools with the benefits of creative play becoming increasingly recognised. With more value being placed on this area of child development, Drama is your newest US.

Make sure you’re committed to Continual Improvement and book onto the upcoming Drama training day.

Date: Thursday 31st March
Time: 10am – 16:30pm
Location: Milton Keynes
Price: FREE OF CHARGE

The Golden Mile has created a Road to Rio competition, providing your schools with a solution to engage pupils in the 2016 games in Rio.

The competition will add value to your existing Golden Mile customers as well as supporting schools to increase every pupil’s activity levels. It’s also a great, innovative way for you to engage with new customers by inviting them to take on the Road to Rio challenge.

The Association for Physical Education (afPE) has produced the following guidance for headteachers and other leadership staff responsible for deploying visiting support staff within Physical Education and Sport (PES).

The Sport and Recreation Alliance is the umbrella organisation for the governing and representative bodies of sport and recreation in the UK and represents 320 members – organisations like The FA, the Rugby Football Union, UK Athletics, the Ramblers, British Rowing and the Exercise, Movement and Dance Partnership.

Please read and share Sport & Recreation Alliance’s February publication with your team - ‘Uncovering the Social Value of Sport!’

A regular ‘Delivery’ Q&A GoToMeeting with our National Quality Development Manager, Andy Heald.

Andy Heald will take any questions / queries / guidance he receives via email to form the agenda points in these sessions. The chances are, other franchisees / Activity Professionals will benefit from your question being answered.

Hit the button below and you’ll be given the option to secure your place on the following session/s -

Monday’s ‘Operations’ GoToMeeting will be from 10am-11am.

If you want to add any points to the meeting agenda, please email these over to Operations Director, Danny Melling before Monday’s session.

Login details –

1. To join the meeting, go to - https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/250214829
2. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended.  Or, call in using your telephone.
   Dial +44 (0) 20 3713 5010
   Access Code: 250-214-829
   Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting
   Meeting ID: 250-214-829

We thought you would find it useful to create a Weekly News Update archive housing previous newsletters from this academic year.

‘Read more’ to catch up on any news you may have missed.