Thursday 17th December 2015

We’ve received a number of orders for personalised Landing Pages over the past week with franchisee Doug McArthur being the first. You can view his pages here. He also opted for full Google Analytics reporting giving him full insight into the buying behaviour of his customers.

To help support your decision to invest in a personalised Landing Page for your business, we’ve created a helpful guide demonstrating the value and return on your investment.

For this year’s National Training Event we’re delighted to return to Dunston Hall in Norfolk on Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th February 2016.

The theme for this year is Seizing Opportunity, with this in mind; we’ve been working hard to develop a two day programme that brings a blend of shared internal good practise and external expertise. We’ll also review developments over the last 12 months, the current landscape for franchisees/licensees and a look at the year ahead.

In the newsletter of the 4th, we told you the pleasing news we was one of only four franchisors to be awarded the prestigious ‘Continuous Improvement Award’ at this year’s Best Franchise Awards. An award we’ve now collected for the fourth year running.

The awards are based on the results of the Smith & Henderson Benchmark survey that you completed recently.

Opening Hours - Premier Education Group Head Office will be closed from Wednesday 23rd December 2015 and will return to work on Monday 4th January 2016.

Final Shop Orders - If you require any kit orders to be delivered before Tuesday 5th January, you will need to place your order via the online shop before 1pm on Monday 21st December, subject to stock availability.

If you’re ordering through the IronGate shop, the deadline has now passed.

Payment Run – Our final payment run will be tomorrow.

Final Newsletter - This is the final edition of 2015, returning on Friday 8th January 2016.

Given that we can now measure pupil’s attendance in both PE and extracurricular activities via the School Portal, you can now purchase exclusive ‘100% attendance’ certificates to reward those dedicated pupils. These can be awarded during reward assemblies, thus raising the profile of what you do whilst also inspiring other children to achieve this recognition.

Why not? Give out a special reward for any children who attend 100% all year.

The aim of this is to support impact and ‘improve children’s attitude towards PE’. You should be celebrating fantastic effort and measure the progress using the Schools Portal.

Physical activity, physical education and school sport are similar in that they all include physical movement, but there are important differences between them.

2015 has been the most successful year yet for Golden Mile licensees; it’s not always been easy but certain licensees have been relentless in their approach and smashed down barriers to pave the way for others to follow.

Implementing the correct structure and mastering resourcefulness has been the turning point for most licensees.

Karl Fox, Golden Mile Director comments; ‘I’m immensely proud of the licensees’ application this year.’

Finance Assistant, Courtney Sinclair has successfully completed the first stage of her AAT qualification. AAT is a well recognised accountancy qualification and we wish Courtney well as she begins the next stage in the New Year.

Core Value no.4 - Commit to continual improvement.

At Premier Education Group we deliver a variety of training courses and qualifications across the UK as both a training centre for 1st4sport and Active IQ.

We are constantly evolving and growing, creating the need for more experienced staff to join our expanding team. Through our networks we deliver qualifications to a variety of learners from those just starting their careers on apprenticeships or those more experienced looking to up-skill.

If you are interested in joining our tutor team, please click on the button below for more info.

Did you tune into Andy’s GoToMeeting this week about ‘Safe and Risk-Free Delivery?’ If you didn’t, don’t worry!

Please click the ‘Catch Up’ button below and download the file from Dropbox.

Our Activity Professional Code of Conduct has been updated and adapted for our ever changing industry. The Code of Conduct along with our Company Core Values covers a clear set of responsibilities that should be achieved when representing Premier.

This code is included in the new Activity Professional Manual and forms part of our minimum operating standards, they can also be found on the BMS resource section.

A regular ‘Delivery’ Q&A GoToMeeting with our National Quality Development Manager, Andy Heald.

Andy Heald will take any questions / queries / guidance he receives via email to form the agenda points in these sessions. The chances are, other franchisees/Activity Professionals with benefit from your question being answered.

Hit the button below and you’ll be given the option to secure your place on the following session/s -

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.