Friday 11th July 2014

Premier Sport and Babcock are offering franchisees the chance to gain nationally recognised qualifications for their apprentices:

• Activity Leadership including PESS L2 Qualification
• Advanced Apprenticeship in Supporting the Delivery of Physical Education and School Sport

Last week, Operations Director, Danny Melling went shopping for a new family car. He needed a reliable car as Danny and his wife are expecting their third child any day soon. The car needs to be big enough to fit three young children (and the luggage that goes with them i.e. prams etc) and two dogs for when they travel.

Danny’s main criteria is that the car needs to have good safety features and cost effective, whilst his wife’s additional criteria is to have a good driving position and be easy to drive!

• The top 10 performing franchisees receive, on average, £4,400 MORE per school, per year than the bottom 10 franchisees.
• On average, the bottom 10 performing franchisees work with 14 schools. If they could apply the principles from the above article and up-sell into existing schools using Inspire products, these franchisees would increase turnover by £61,600.
• 100% of the top 10 franchisees don’t DELIVER in their business, whereas 60% of the bottom 10% do. This suggests the bottom 10 don’t have TIME to sell and maybe that’s why SO FAR this academic year the top 10 turnover is £240k MORE than someone in the bottom 10 (3 yrs old and above).

A significant number of primary school children from Teesside have been getting physically active through The Golden Mile programme which is supported and funded by Tees Valley Leisure Limited. Participating schools and their pupils have already notched up more than 18,000 miles in just 18 weeks. This impressive achievement is almost the equivalent of travelling from their schools to the world cup in Rio and back twice!

The 2013/14 Activity Professional Excellence Awards will be closing at the end of July. A reward of £500 will be given to two Activity Professionals that have demonstrated excellent service and have positive feedback to evidence this.

There are over 700 qualified Activity Professionals in our network; less than 1% has been nominated so far. It’s easy to nominate – email [email protected] with details of why your Activity Professional should be considered for one of the awards with supporting evidence.

The assessment of Activity Professionals is paramount in ensuring quality and providing accurate CPD to staff. The course will enable participants to assess ActPros competently and confidently in a school or community environment. Covering organisational best practice, the assessment of planning and delivery, following the assessment framework, how to feedback and recommending CPD. 

Training will be running throughout the UK over the next few months. Find out more or to book a place...

In the build up to the summer holiday’s can we remind you all of the process regarding the reporting of incident and injury.

No matter how minor, all injuries should be recorded on an accident/incident report form and the parent/guardian upon de-registration should sign it. We have a duty to inform parents if their child has been involved in any type of accident/incident and if first aid has been administered.

1st4sport Qualifications have announced a new suite of qualifications for those wanting to work in physical education and school sport.

Developed in partnership with the Association for Physical Education (afPE), and with the support of Compass – the 1st4sport Physical Education and School Sport Suite is a set of qualifications that introduce learners to a number of roles in providing physical education and school sport.