Blogs & Updates
SIMS Spring Census guidance 2019
January 08 2019
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Census Consolidated Patch v2
October 01 2018
There is now a Census Consolidated Patch v2 for Summer Release 2018 (patch 24330) is necessary to correct the issue in the SIMS application for schools receiving error 1992 when running School Census...
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