Blogs & Updates
Spring Census is just around the corner!
December 04 2015
The date for the Spring 2016 Census is Thursday 21st January 2016
We will be publishing the school census documentation at the beginning of the new year, however, should you require an onsite consul...
Assessment Data & Student Progress
November 26 2015
What will you show Ofsted in the future when their inspectors call?
Life after levels, beginning in September 2015, will still require students to be assessed.
Importantly, those assessments will n...
SOLUS3 Upgrade
November 23 2015
Following the Capita technical road map, all schools using SIMS should upgrade to the new version of SOLUS by the end of March 2016.
In addition, Microsoft have removed support for SQL Server 2008 an...
Using SIMS for Behaviour Management
November 20 2015
This week is anti-bullying week. The theme for this year is Make a noise about bullying
It is widely recognised that a robust behaviour recording and reporting system can help schools tackle bully...
Giving teachers more freedom
November 19 2015
Giving teachers more freedom this Autumn with SIMS Assessment.
Read Capita's Product Manager, Rachael Marshman’s blog on how SIMS is supporting school’s approach to assessment and what changes ...
What’s new in the SIMS Autumn Release?
November 18 2015
Here are just some of the changes to look out for in the SIMS Autumn Release
Improvements to SIMS Assessment
The developments in assessment have been made with teachers in mind; improving usabilit...
Welcome to the team
November 11 2015
We would like to introduce two new members of the MIS team who you will be either seeing or speaking to and we are sure that you will make them both welcome
Leyla Tovey
MIS Assistant Manager
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Evidence the quality of teaching and support CPD in your school
November 06 2015
Dear Colleague,
When it comes to Ofsted inspection and achieving an ‘outstanding’ judgement overall, schools have to prove that their quality of teaching merits this.
Senior leaders will need ...
Win a Digital Camera!
November 03 2015
School Business Services are currently undergoing the Capita SIMS re-accreditation
The process for SIMS accreditation is very similar to schools undertaking an Ofsted inspection.
The assessment requi...
Census and School Workforce Return - New Fileset 207
October 22 2015
There is a new updated fileset which solves a number of issues with validations for the Census and SWR which has just been released.
Download the Zip file and then follow the instructions below to imp...
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