Friday 24th June 2016

Yesterday, the UK voted to leave the EU. While it remains unclear how this will impact the physical activity sector, it does signal the start of a number of technical processes leading to a formal withdrawal agreement in a minimum of two years’ time.

Following the news of his defeat, UK Prime Minister, David Cameron also resigned from office.

ukactive has produced an overview on the immediate political and economic fallout and the technical processes which the ‘leave vote’ have set in motion.

Introducing The Premier Passport scheme...

Premier Education Group recognises that we have a huge pool of ambitious and talented people within our network. These golden individuals could be Activity Professional’s or members of your senior leadership team delivering outstanding sessions and adding value to your business every day.

The Premier Passport offers you the opportunity to retain your best people, define a career pathway and in doing so have the opportunity to grow your wealth not only financially but as a leader of people.

The Annual Quality and Impact Review Survey was distributed to our partner schools yesterday. As part of the process, we’d now like for you send the survey link below to your schools, urging headteachers to complete the survey before next Friday 1st July.

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/qualityreview15_16

Every year we review and develop the school based PE & school sport programme we’re delivering in schools and the survey is based on the provision they have received from you and your team.

Sales proposals are the heart and soul of selling. They’re also time consuming, though – so when you get the opportunity to write one, you want it to be a winner.

1. Write a proposal, not an estimate
   
   There’s a big difference. An estimate provides a price quote and statement of work. A proposal provides a summary of the clients (schools’) problems and how you’ll help solve them. An estimate keeps the client focused on price; a proposal (even though it includes price) keeps the client focused on the value they’ll receive.

When Premier Sport Activity Professional, Luke Askew was asked to help out at a Race for Life charity event at one of his school’s on Wednesday, he didn’t realise he would end up taking part. The race, in aid of Cancer Research UK, involved every child from years 1 to 6 at St Peter’s Primary School in Blackburn including the inspirational Samual Hosker.

As Luke was cheering everyone on, he noticed a young boy – Samuel Hosker from Year 2, in his wheelchair. Luke took it upon himself to go and help Samuel, who couldn’t push himself, taking hold of the wheelchair and running with him, pushing him over the grass for the entire race until the very end, where Samuel finished by walking the last stretch himself, using his frame.

We’ve teamed up with the Dame Kelly Holmes Legacy Trust to deliver inspiring athlete visits to schools!

What better way to get all of the children interested in the Rio 2016 Olympics, than having a real life inspirational athlete come to inspire them?! Our ambassador visit days include the following as standard:

This week we are looking at Core Value #4 – Commit to Continual Improvement. We’d love to hear from Activity Professionals that have been continuing to improve themselves, and how they have done this. Some ideas for how to commit to continual improvement are listed below:

• Learn
  You can never learn too much, and everyone can learn something new every day. Take the opportunity to enrol on courses which will help you learn more about your job/industry or a new skill that will benefit your work. Also, listen to your colleagues and ask them questions if you are unsure about something – learn from others.

In last week’s newsletter we highlighted the great news about this summer’s promotion with Chewits which has already featured in over 21 Local World (UK’s biggest regional newspaper publisher) publications up and down the country meaning great exposure to attract new customers and reward existing ones.

The exposure of the brand both nationally and locally is set increase again as we have managed to secure a promotion in this weekend’s Sunday Star. And with a readership of over 300,000 we are delighted to be able to secure this coverage on behalf of franchisees. We’ve also included The Golden Mile and our new Ambassador programme in to the offer, meaning greater publicity of these products and potential for new school customers too.

We’re excited to announce that we will be featuring a series of video diaries from our Apprentices. Our first apprentice is Joanna Hunt, a Premier Performing Arts apprentice. We will be catching up with Joanna every three months to see what she thinks of working for Premier Performing Arts, what she has learnt, and what experiences she has had. This will give everyone a great insight in to Premier’s training, and what it’s like as a new member of staff joining the company. Check out the video from Joanna, who is excited to come on board!

Step one: The first letter, ‘G’, stands for Goals. Goals in business represent the final results that YOU want to achieve. All business goals can be defined in financial terms. Your gaols must be clear, written and specific. They must be measurable and exact and time-bounded with deadlines. Some examples of financial goals are sales volume, net profit, return on equity, return on investment, return on sales, growth rate, market share, and profit per customers. Which numbers you choose to focus on largely determines how you will organise and deploy the people and resources of your business.

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

Sports First Aid Course
Thursday 21st July, 1.00pm - 5.00pm

Duration: 4 hours

Venue: Premier Sport Training Academy, Church Road, Shropham, NR17 1EJ

Introduction to Primary Dance
Wednesday 27th July, 9.00am - 4.00pm

Venue:The Hazeley Academy, Emperor Drive, Hazeley,
Milton Keynes, MK8 0PT

British Gymnastics Intermediate Teachers Award
Wednesday 27 July, 9.00am - 4.30pm

Venue:Ipswich Gymnastics Centre, 7 Braziers Wood Road, Ipswich, IP3 0SP

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.