Friday 4th September 2015

Global participation of Rugby increased by 19% during and since the Rugby World Cup in 2007. Rugby is now the sport of choice for more than 5 million men, women and children in over 117 countries. That’s according to the Economic Impact Report on Global Rugby: Strategic and Emerging Markets.

Following months of development, a new monthly parent newsletter is set to be distributed to our parent members next week. For example, the personalised newsletter will inform parents of your upcoming extracurricular and holiday courses you have loaded to the BMS. We’ll send you an example of the newsletter before it goes next week.

We’ve been receiving lots of calls from parents about the forthcoming term, please ensure your course details are uploaded to the BMS ASAP.

Business partners, Dave and Nick Shirley operate a very successful holiday course programme, averaging over 100 children per day over the summer. Why? They have all their courses uploaded to the BMS a whole year in advance. The great news for them is they already have over 30 children booked and paid onto October Half-Term courses.

Are your October Half-Term courses online and available for your parents to book?

The Skills and Compliance team have started to create some training demo videos to help you navigate your way around the BMS. This week’s video demonstrates how to give your Activity Professional access to the BMS. It can be found on the BMS Resources section under ‘BMS Training’.

With children back to school it is now time to start organising and promoting your October Half-Term holiday courses. To help you, we have new and unique Halloween leaflets and merchandise available on the Irongate store.

Check out the new design here.

How to order your Bespoke Halloween Holiday Leaflets...

The Premier Performing Arts network just had their best financial period to date with a growth increase of 5%, compared to the same time last year.

We’ve had so many awesome videos submitted over the past six months which is fantastic. We now want to support you in taking your videos to the next level by introducing some sparkle and sound animations.

Please follow these simple steps for you to add intro and outro animations to your videos. Its so simple, but first, here’s one we made earlier.

Premier Performing Arts is set to release an exciting new range of Act Pro kit, following your feedback over the past few months. Images to follow soon!

Do you have questions about the new apprenticeship scheme with Creative Sport & Leisure? Skills & Compliance have put some FAQ’s together to help support you with the new process. These can be found on the Resource section of the BMS, under Recruitment and titled ‘Apprenticeship FAQ’s’.

Due to this week’s bank holiday, the final ‘six weeks of planning’ Marketing session will take place this Monday (7/9/15) at 12pm via GoToMeeting. The session will last approximately one hour and will cover the following themes.

• Objective setting
• 12month tactical planning
• Measuring success

To book onto Monday’s session, simply email James Jennison.

Andy Heald will take up the role of Premier Education Group National Quality Development Manager with immediate effect. Andy’s role will support the network in a number of different ways, sharing his experience with Franchisees, Licensees and Activity Professionals.

As National Quality Development Manager, Andy’s key responsibilities will include:

In preparation for the new school year, we have designed some fantastic ‘Drama has landed’ leaflets that are now available to order on the shop in quantities of 100.

As per your request, these are handy flyers that can be inserted into schools brochures, extracurricular club leaflets or simply just handed to schools and parents to make them aware of the new products you can offer!

National Fitness Day, 9th of September 2015, is the biggest and most visible annual celebration of physical activity of the year. It is the day to celebrate the role that physical activity plays across the UK. This year, ukactive’s aim is to make National Fitness Day the most active day of the year.

We’re calling on all PEG business owners to get involved. All you need to do is send us your pics and vids of your active children or even your own Act Pros.

Please send your pics/vids to [email protected] and Danny Melling will award the best a £100 voucher for the online shop.

Over the next 30 days we will be sharing with you a number of new developments and enhancements we’ve been working on to support you, your business and your staff.

First up, is the new pupil report and is available to you and your schools via the Schools Portal.

To access the pupils reports simply follow these steps:

• Login to schools.premier-education.com
• Select the school which you’ve completed pupil reports for
• Select ‘Pupils’ from the menu on the home page
• Select an individual pupil you’ve completed a report for
• Click ‘View Year End Review’

Monday’s ‘Operations Business Development’ GoToMeeting will continue as normal, starting at 10am sharp. 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

Glenn Hoy of TIME Associates and James Jennison last week presented the new, ‘Sales Development Workshop for Activity Professionals’ and the theme of the workshop was the ‘Magic Matrix’.

‘Although The Magic Matrix is not new to you, it can sometimes be overlooked when considering ways of identifying and selling new services into existing schools’ comments Glenn.

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.