Posted on 4th April 2019
CTF issue with SIMS Spring Release (7.186)
Current precautionary advice: Do not to use the CTF mechanism to share pupil and contact details with other schools until further notice Capita have informed us that there could be a CTF issue in th...
Posted on 25th March 2019
Online Free School Meals
Easy free school meal administration. In this age of Universal Infant Free School Meals, and importance of the Pupil Premium funding, it’s important that all eligible pupils are signed up. With ...
Posted on 21st March 2019
SIMS Training Courses from SBS in April
What's coming up in April? Take a look at April's SIMS Training Courses to see if anything catches your eye! Below are our upcoming SIMS Training Courses and dates: 24th April 2019 SIMS System Man...
Posted on 19th March 2019
NEW Data Management Forum for Secondary Schools
NEW Data Management Forum for Secondary Schools Did you know about our Data Management Forums? These sessions are a great way of networking and being able to speak to other schools to see how they de...
Posted on 7th February 2019
Email security update for schools
It has been brought to our attention that we have had a couple of instances where a rule has been set up within Microsoft Outlook email client to forward all emails to a different email address. We...
Posted on 6th February 2019
Complimentary SIMS Overview - Wednesday 1st May 2019
This event is an opportunity for Primary schools to visit our London venue to find out more about the latest benefits of SIMS. Did you know about our SIMS Overview Sessions? Following on from the suc...
Posted on 29th January 2019
Do you want to support PDSA by teaching your class how to be responsible pet owners?
Are your pupils passionate about pets? Well, why not support PDSA and sign up to their new free award programme, PetWise School Award? ...
Posted on 9th January 2019
New Census Fileset 1102 for Spring Census 2019
As notified in the previous blog we have been waiting for a new census fileset which has just been released. This fileset provides the following changes compared to Fileset 1100 and is now available...
Posted on 9th January 2019
School census 2018 to 2019
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...
Posted on 8th January 2019
SIMS Spring Census guidance 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...
Posted on 8th January 2019
Catholic Education Service (CES) Census 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...
Posted on 4th December 2018
School census 2018 to 2019
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...