Blogs & Updates

New Teacher Scales for September 2015
  July 08 2015
Following the announcement of the new pay scales for teachers from September 2015, we have created two new tables for you to choose between and apply in your budget settings: Teacher Scales – Sept...
Do you know how to generate the new SIMS school report?
  June 29 2015

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The SIMS school report enables the monitoring of key measures in the school. You can customise the SIMS school report output by including or excluding specific measures that you are interested in. Al...
SIMS Assessment – ‘Supports one of the central processes of any school’
  June 05 2015

MIS

SIMS Assessment & Reporting Suite provides a comprehensive tracking solution that works directly with pupil information held within SIMS. So up-to-the-minute data becomes readily available and reflect...
Raising Teaching Standards
  June 05 2015

MIS

Successfully manage staff performance and raise standards across your school, with SIMS Staff Performance. “Held within a single, central and secure location, teachers’ annual appraisal objective...
Do your governors have what it takes?
  June 05 2015

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With governors now more accountable, having a governing body with a range of skills is key to supporting high standards of educational achievement across your school. The latest guidance from the Dep...
The SIMS Teacher App - Making everyday classroom tasks even easier
  June 05 2015

MIS

Imagine stepping into the classroom and your tablet knows which lesson you’re taking and shows the name and picture of all students in that class. Mark a student late and it shows by how many minute...
Latest News
  May 15 2015
Since our allowances update was added to SBS Online in April, we have been hard at work developing and testing another comprehensive update to the software. This new release will include several grea...
May the Fourth Be With You!
  May 04 2015
This blog is being published on ‘Star Wars Day’. In a few days’ time our opinion will be sought on which empire returns to No. 10 and whether the new government will be a clone of the last. But ...
Interactive touch screens vs Interactive white boards
  April 14 2015

ICT

Here at SBS we want to ensure our customers get the best quality devices at best value but also what fits the need of the school. One area I like to discuss with SLT, ICT Coordinators and Governing...
SBS Online Allowances update
  April 09 2015
What is in the new Allowances update? Future Values for Allowances You will now be able to specify what allowances will be worth at any given effective date in your planner. This negates the need t...