Blogs & Updates

Assessment Data & Student Progress
  November 26 2015

MIS

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

MIS

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

MIS

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

MIS

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

MIS

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

MIS

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 ...
Evidence the quality of teaching and support CPD in your school
  November 06 2015

MIS

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

MIS

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

MIS

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...
School Workforce Census 2015
  October 07 2015

MIS

With the School Workforce Census 2015 date looming on 5th November it’s important to prepare to ensure that you meet the deadline. Our preparation documentation is now available for you to downl...