Blogs & Updates

NEW SIMS Dealing with Part-time Nursery Pupils
  May 09 2022

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Our NEW SIMS Dealing with Part-time nursery pupils Webinar is now available to book!
New Remote Service - Power BI Attendance Reports
  March 15 2022

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We have produced a series of reports for Primary and Secondary Schools to provide in depth analysis of your SIMS Attendance data over any date range in the current year.
SIMS Lesson Monitor and Reporting
  September 29 2021

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Our NEW SIMS Lesson Monitor and Reporting Webinar for November 2021 is now available to book!
Arbor Covid Attendance
  September 21 2021

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Arbor have archived the X03 and X04 codes (except for reporting), and introduced new X08 and X09 codes to help the DfE collect data on absences due to public health advice.
2021/2022 Covid Attendance Recording for Schools
  September 06 2021

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Welcome back from us all here at SBS! We’re looking forward to another great year with you all and hope you are too?
SIMS Covid Attendance Sub-codes
  April 19 2021

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SIMS now has a range of subcodes that have been introduced for session marks
Would you like to take part in the new pilot for attendance data?
  January 18 2021

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GOV.UK has sent out the following invitation for all state funded schools to take part. (This does not include Nursery Schools.) Invitation to take part in a pilot to automate the daily collection o...
A helping hand for the daily SAGE form
  June 15 2020

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Temporary attendance codes have been made available to help schools report back to the DfE. Capita have produced Patch 25870 that will temporarily make codes 7,8,9 and Y available within Edit Marks ...
New Attendance Reports for SIMS from SBS
  June 03 2020

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Reporting on I, X, and Y just got easier with new attendance reports from SBS. Following on from the latest guidance from the DfE, Schools should resume taking the attendance register when more grou...
Reporting on staff and student absences due to the Coronavirus
  March 25 2020

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Schools will have a huge number of staff and students absent due to the COVID-19 virus. Here at SBS we have designed two reports to help you analyse your absences/attendance data based on those very ...