Friday 3rd July 2015

There’s been an additional £1,495 invested by each school on extracurricular activity – this is an increase of 882% since the School Sports Premium funding was introduced.

You are invited to take part in the following webinars, offering advice and updates on current topics that affect your Premier Education Group business. These include –

• Activity Professional Apprenticeships
• The New Activity Professional Training Framework and MOS
• Zero Hours Contracts

Please view the ‘read more’ section for more details and how to book onto these free webinars.

There’s been 1,900 Quality Assurance Assessments completed on our Activity Professionals across the network.

There’s been a 49% increase in before school ‘START Active’ physical activity clubs since the inception of our Inspire Programme.

Skills & Compliance are pleased to release the new Training Framework for Activity Professionals.

This new resource gives a clear overview of the training journey and opportunities for the Activity Professional network, including minimum operating standards, qualification framework for Premier Sport and Premier Performing Arts, traineeships, apprenticeships and the Premier Passport.

You can save 10% off your annual Management Service Fees if you pay in one upfront instalment or 5% in two instalments.

9th September is National Fitness Day and this year ukactive - the leading not-for-profit health body for the physical activity sector - are excited to work with our franchisees and schools to help make it the most active day of the year.

National Fitness Day is about getting children of all ages to engage with physical activity in a positive way, helping build strong relationship with exercise and habits that will set them up to be an healthy adult.

We’ve had over 10,500 views of our YouTube Channel in the first 4 months since launch.

If we could show you a way to expand into new markets, extend your window of opportunity to generate more income and cement your relationship with your schools, would you be interested?

Many of our forward thinking Premier Sport franchisees are now grabbing Premier Performing Arts (PPA) with both hands. Becoming a licensee will put you in the driving seat to increase your market penetration and income per school.

Here’s a number of ways it will help you achieve this...

We’ve created 262 new Activity Professional jobs since the School Sports Premium Funding was introduced.

The booking deadline is Friday 17th July to book onto the next CIM Social Media course at PEG HQ (Monday 14th September).

Launching your official Facebook and Twitter pages presents your business with a proven tool to communicate directly with your local stakeholders. Your business is seriously missing a trick not being active on social media. We bet your competitors are!

Before you book the course via the shop, hit ‘The process’ button below to find out the few simple steps required before being able to connect with your local stakeholders.

In June there were 28,113 Golden Miles completed with 1641 new children registered within our licensed territories.

The Young Arts Ambassador application form is now live on the Premier Performing Arts website.

In last week’s News Update we shared with you Ofsted’s new 2015-16 Handbook for Inspecting Schools. We would again urge you to read this document in great detail.

Why not be outstanding and proactively discuss these changes with headteachers during your ‘end of year’ reviews?

Over the next few News Updates, we’ll highlight key areas you should be aware of before you and your team begin delivering in September.

In the Weekly News Update on Friday 22nd May we told you about the summer promotion we’re running in association with Chewits. To date the joint partnership has gained regional and national press exposure with the help of Olympic medallist Darren Campbell. And there’s more to come, we’ve secured over 40 regional promotions in the local press and also confirmed national press coverage too. We estimate the combined value of all this activity will be in the region of £100,000 once the campaign is complete.

On Tuesday 30th June Arsenal Ladies and England under 19s footballer Carla Humphrey was on hand to inspire more primary school girls in Cambridge & Newmarket to take up sport.

Carla visited the pupils at The Grove Primary School to host an inspirational school assembly talking about the importance of playing sport and the benefits to young girls in particular. She then visited the pupils at Fen Ditton Primary School before delivering a once-in-a-lifetime coaching session to the girls at Laureate Community Primary School & Nursery.

On Thursday 9th July 2015 following weeks of rehearsals, 300 children from seven Norwich primary schools are set to perform dance routines that are set to dazzle the OPEN venue crowd in Norwich.

Pupils from Toftwood infant and junior, Scarning, Gt Witchingham, Mattishall, Drayton, and Costessey primary schools will perform this year’s theme ‘A step back in time’ designed to help each dance group to be as creative as possible. Songs & ideas have been explored throughout the rehearsal weeks & each individual group will interpret the theme in their own style.

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.