Posted on 11th January 2016
Census - new fileset223
Downloading and Applying a Fileset Please note that a new Fileset223 has been released by Capita ready for your School Census. Please check that you have had your SIMS upgrade and are on SIMS version...
Posted on 17th December 2015
SBS Online Update: Theme Selector and Other Improvements
Our new SBS Online update contains several improvements, plus some bug fixes. Theme selector Choose how your SBS Online planner looks by selecting a different theme. By default, one of the new themes ...
Posted on 10th December 2015
Meet the team
We would like to introduce some of our new members of the team who have joined this year. Ricky Barton Finance Consultant I joined School Business Services in 2015 as a Finance Consultant; ...
Posted on 7th December 2015
Progress 8 data within the SIMS School Report
We have seen this recent video from Capita regarding Progress 8 and thought it may be of interest to our readers because of how you can now view the Progress 8 data within the SIMS School Report and ...
Posted on 4th December 2015
Spring Census is just around the corner!
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...
Posted on 26th November 2015
Assessment Data & Student Progress
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...
Posted on 24th November 2015
Research, collaborate, streamline
The focus of the current government is to reduce the UK’s budget deficit – and whilst the government is currently committed to safeguarding existing school budgets, there will undoubtedly be dif...
Posted on 24th November 2015
Have you updated your Additional Staffing allowances?
Here at SBS HQ we are committed to ensuring customer satisfaction. As part of this we make it our responsibility to perform random spot checks on planners every now and again. If and when we see anyt...
Posted on 18th November 2015
What’s new in the SIMS Autumn Release?
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...
Posted on 11th November 2015
Welcome to the team
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 ...
Posted on 6th November 2015
Evidence the quality of teaching and support CPD in your school
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 ...
Posted on 29th October 2015
SBS Online Release: Improved Excel Exports
Our latest release contains three significant enhancements plus a couple of minor bug fixes. Excel Exports Both this and the previous release have standardised and improved the process for exporting...