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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...
Posted on 29th October 2018
Autumn School Census 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...
Posted on 16th October 2018
School Workforce Census Autumn 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...
Posted on 10th October 2018
Next Data Managers Forum - 7/11/18 - limited places available
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...
Posted on 1st October 2018
Census Consolidated Patch v2
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...