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...
Posted on 21st October 2015
Update: September 2015 Teacher Pay Scales
Due to popular demand, we have created a third teacher pay scale table for you to choose and apply in your budget settings, named 'Teacher Scales – Sept 2015 (C)'. This table features a standard 1% ...
Posted on 7th October 2015
School Workforce Census 2015
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...
Posted on 5th October 2015
Capita's Insight webinars for primary senior leaders
As a school leader you will want to know what’s working in a school and what isn’t - but with so much going on, it’s often hard to have everything you need all in one place. SIMS gives you an ...
Posted on 21st September 2015
Advice on Learning Aims for the new 2 Year A Levels.
With the introduction of the new form A Levels, which will be 2 year courses as opposed to a single year AS Level followed by a single year A2, there is some confusion in how these should be recorded...
Posted on 21st September 2015
Census - New Fileset 205
Downloading and Applying a Fileset Use the link provided to download the ZIP file to an available folder; it doesn’t matter what folder is chosen as the ZIP does not contain any sensitive data. D...
Posted on 9th September 2015
Fileset 204 for the Autumn Census
Please note: A new Fileset has been released by Capita ready for your School Census and School Workforce Return and is available for you. Please check that you have had your Summer upgrade and are on...