Friday 13th March 2015

We would very much appreciate your feedback following the National Training Event.

This very short, anonymous survey will take you no longer than 5 minutes to complete and will help us measure the success of #NTE15 and identify areas where we can improve for #NTE16.

National Training Development Officer, Andy Heald and the Marketing team have invested 10 hours on your behalf this week, finalising the 2015 Annual Quality and Impact Review survey and supporting email template ready for you to circulate to your Head Teachers (see article below).

Following last Friday’s article in the Weekly News Update, here are further details about contacting your active schools (curricular or extracurricular) to conduct our ‘2015 Annual Quality and Impact Review of school provision’.

Here is all you need to do –

SAVE THE DATE – Skills and Compliance Administrator, Mel Jackson is delighted to confirm the 2016 National Training Event will be held on Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th February at Dunston Hall, Norwich.

For the second year running, the Premier Sport Marketing team has been named as a finalist in the ‘Best Overall Marketing Campaign’ category at the 2015 Franchise Marketing Awards, which recognises the industry’s most innovative and effective marketing campaigns.

In this strong category, franchisors are recognised for their consistency of approach, overall impact, brand awareness and development of a theme across at least three media.

Over the past couple of weeks, the Marketing team have been working on a suite of marketing support especially for you, which will maximise your marketing activity on a localised level. These packages were unveiled to network Champions on Wednesday and you’ll receive more info at the upcoming network meeting.

Once again, congratulations for being a member of Premier Education Group’s prestigious 100, 250, 500 club!

This year’s event, ‘Business Mastery’ has been announced for Thursday 16th April 2015 (further details below) at St George’s Park, the home of the English FA. We also have some high profile guest speakers lined up and the day and will be compared by our CEO, David Batch.

This week, our Finance team spent time with our Franchise Champions discussing the NTE findings and how we can enhance our support to you (article to follow next week). As a result, Steve Girling has already met with Shaun Daly to discuss the BMS and fine-tune our finance processes for you.

Following the popularity of the summer schools programme for pupil premium students since 2012, the government will be making £250 - £500 per pupil available for the scheme to run again this summer.

Summer schools provide an excellent opportunity for secondary schools to help disadvantaged new pupils understand what and how they will be studying in key stage 3 and ultimately make a successful transition from primary to secondary school. It is also an opportunity for schools to help disadvantaged pupils who are behind in key areas such as literacy and numeracy to catch up with their peers.

Frankie Worthington has spent 10 hours this week, working on the new PPA marketing literature to incorporate Drama. This includes Schools’ brochures, holiday course leaflets and extracurricular club leaflets. The impressive new collateral will be available for you to order soon!

Following on from the Golden Mile article last week, Norfolk franchisee, Daniel Boswell has now confirmed his third invitation to present at three separate cluster meetings in just over a week.

This goes to show the power of referral. By just delivering the unique BLM service, complete with an analysis & guidance meeting to existing customers, head teachers are keen to share this service with their peers. The first cluster meeting was delivered this week with 100% of attendees signing up to the BLM package, all of which are NEW schools.

In a bid to support their strategic planning, six existing franchisees have become licensees in February alone. Over this crucial ‘school budget’ period, Golden Mile will increase their retention rates, increase price, add value and increase volume.

With the introduction of the ‘Inspire to Engage’ product range, we thought it would be a timely reminder to cover what the regulations from Ofsted are around holiday course provision.

The factsheet, ‘Registration not Required’ details that registration is not required under the following conditions:

Over the past couple of weeks, the Marketing team have invested over 25 hours working with Iron Gate to complete phase one of the new development. The team will complete phase two and launch before the end of April.

Almost 4 weeks after #NTE15, Glenn Hoy of TIME Associates, who provides support for our members across all sales disciplines, has noticed a definite trend in one key area from his work with you and your fellow business owners.

Glenn comments;”‘David Batch mentioned that ‘interference’ was a significant factor in moving a business forward and following recent conversations with you, I couldn’t agree more.

In last week’s News Update, we shared the first in a two part video published by Ofsted and featuring the National Lead for Physical Education, John Mitcheson HMI.

Here’s part two demonstrating good practice at Barking Abbey School. The school have excelled at competitive school sport, including basketball, netball and football.

Amazingly, we’re still awaiting 50 Camp Return Forms from February half term. Don’t forget to submit your Camp Return Form once your course has finished and any payments have been accounted for and uploaded onto the BMS.

Please email your form to Courtney NOW so we can reconcile to the BMS and release any payment.

Many of you will remember the track and tennis court which popped up at the NTE.

PopUpArena is a complete system of specialist mobile arena equipment which can be configured in many different ways to suit almost any shape and size of sporting or cultural event. The most popular model is the SuperSport package which offers a multi-sport solution and can be setup by two people in as little as 30 minutes!

Click here for more info.

Former bfa Chairman and successful franchisor Melvin Lusty joined Olympic Gold Medallist and Businessman Duncan Goodhew MBE in the stunning surroundings of Dunstan Hall Golf & Country Club, to celebrate the successes of over 100 Premier Sport franchisees.

This annual event brings together franchisees from all four corners of the country to not only celebrate success of the past 12 months, but also learn and impart knowledge with fellow business owners to ensure the next 12 months will be even more successful.

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.