Blogs & Updates

School census 2018 to 2019
  January 09 2019

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Please note: It's been brought to our attention that a previous blog regarding the School census 2018-2019 has encountered some technical issues, so this is a repaet blog post. The DfE has decide...
SIMS Spring Census guidance 2019
  January 08 2019

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The SIMS Spring Census will be on Thursday 17th January 2019 Happy New Year from us at SBS and apologies for being the bearer of bad news, it’s the Spring School Census next week and to get you go...
Catholic Education Service (CES) Census 2019
  January 08 2019

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For some of you there are two Census’s to complete, the CES Census is the extra one. Please see below a link to a Completing the Census guide, along with a couple of bits taken from it to get you o...
NEW Training Schoolz Module
  December 12 2018
Great for every School - Primary, Secondary, Specials and MATS Do you need a simple, fast and effective way to make sure your staff training is kept up to date? Training Schoolz is an online servi...
School census 2018 to 2019
  December 04 2018

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The DfE has decided that there is no longer a requirement to collect three items in future census’s and these are Proficiency in English, Pupil Country of Birth and Pupil Nationality. Therefore un...
SIMS Autumn Upgrade - 7.184
  November 20 2018

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Your SIMS Autumn Upgrade is here! (7.184) We have attached a document to show you all of the latest improvements changes to SIMS within this upgrade. Of course you will require this Autumn version t...
Autumn School Census 2018
  October 29 2018

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We are sharing the following information that has been released from the DfE. Update No 2 from the DfE Purpose The purpose of this note is to provide school census contacts with an update on th...
School Workforce Census Autumn 2018
  October 16 2018

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With November rapidly approaching and the half term break just around the corner it’s time to start looking forward to the School Workforce Census Autumn 2018. Here you are going to find the how to...
Inspection, SIMS and the Single Central Record
  October 11 2018

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The guidance paper shown has been created by ASCL and Capita/SIMS and we felt this should be shared with our schools. Download paper! → This paper is relevant to school and college leaders in En...
Next Data Managers Forum - 7/11/18 - limited places available
  October 10 2018

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Data Managers Forum - Primary and Secondary School sessions Did you know about our termly Data Managers Forums? These sessions are a great way of networking and being able to speak to other schools t...