Dear Headteachers,

It seems like yesterday we welcomed you back after October’s half-term and now we’re in December, Christmas panto is just around the corner with 2016 in touching distance.

In this month’s newsletter we’d like to highlight Ofsted’s Common Inspection Framework (CIF) they introduced to schools in September which asks a number of probing areas for consideration around inspecting.

More About PLAY Active - Many children believe themselves to be ‘un-sporty’ because they feel alienated by activities which are focused on win/lose scenarios. Our PLAY Active sessions will encourage fun-based physical activity rather than traditional sports.

The aim of PLAY Active is to encourage non-sporty children to get physically active through structured activities. By placing the emphasis in inclusion rather than sport skills and techniques, children are encouraged to have fun. This in turn improves social skills, self esteem, balance, co-ordination and physical wellbeing.

To celebrate the greatest sporting event on the planet, Premier Sport is offering you the chance to experience your very own ‘Road to Rio’ enrichment activity.

Our Activity Professionals are qualified to deliver a range of sports that will feature in Brazil, meaning you can choose the activity that each class participates in during the enrichment sessions. Some of our more unique sports on offer are listed below;

On Wednesday 2nd December, Arsenal Ladies and England under 20s footballer Carla Humphrey visited Beckers Green School in Braintree to kick start their North Pole Golden Mile journey.

The Golden Mile is a national initiative aimed at getting primary schools doing regularly physical activity within the safety of the school grounds. To give you an idea of the impact The Golden Mile is having in schools across the nation, in the last academic year alone, children completed 169,000 miles- that’s halfway to the moon!

You may have always associated us with providing sport in schools but did you know we provide structured curricular time provision through dance, drama and music too?

To help us find out if providing specialist performing arts delivery in your school would be of interest, we would really appreciate if you could complete our very short survey.

To say thanks, we’re offering EVERY school that completes the survey a chance of winning a £100 Premier Performing Arts voucher*.