Friday 18th July 2014

National Coach Training Development Officer Andy Heald, attended the Association for PE conference held at St Georges Park on your behalf last week.

The theme for the conference was Actions and Impact, with a big focus now being on ensuring the impact of the new sports funding is measured and there is a standard set for quality in schools through moderation. There was a big emphasis on the primary school curriculum changes and how the future of school sport will be shaped under a new PE national curriculum and the use of assessment without levels.

It was exciting to learn that our Inspire Programme is well placed to support the new national curriculum for PE that comes in to play September 2014. The old level descriptors to make judgements on children’s attainment and learning in PE have now been removed. As you are aware, our planning framework was strategically designed with this in mind as we make judgements on children’s learning and competence at emergent, expected, exceeding and not levelled.

The new primary school PE curriculum will be in place for the new academic year. Every state funded school must offer a curriculum which is balanced and broadly based. In simple terms:

• Promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and in society
• Prepares pupils at the school for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life

The national curriculum is the absolute minimum entitlement - one small part only of pupils overall Physical Education experience.
 
It is for individual schools to determine their overall Physical Education curriculum which should extend way beyond the minimum entitlement as set out in the National Curriculum. Please see the fig1 below that explains this in further detail.

To raise the profile and awareness of Chewits Sports Courses this summer, we’re running a national promotion in this Sunday’s Daily Star Sunday.

To view the promotion please click here.

Delivery of sport and physical activity reached record levels at Premier Sport in June, bringing our total to over 6.7 million visits for an hour of activity since September - representing even more young people than ever before experiencing some form of physical activity through the innovative Inspire Programme.

Of course that’s a lot of activity, but let’s put that into perspective; this is the equivalent of...

We’re proud to announce the new Chewits Premier Sport website will go live next week.

The website arrives in timely manner as parents will be looking to book online onto our Chewits Sport Courses for the summer period.

Premier Sport is delighted to be supporting Andrea Hunt as she embarks on a 10 hour fitness session tomorrow to raise money for the charity ‘Target Ovarian Cancer’.