Blogs & Updates

Helping us to help you
  June 28 2016

MIS

As you might imagine, we have a very busy Service Desk here at SBS, and this is particularly true at peak times of year such as now. When you call us, it is essential that we take down some key item...
SIMS and FMS End of Year Procedures
  June 16 2016

MIS

As the summer term rolls on, schools will already be preparing for their new intake in September, the changes to classes next year and also the end of term leavers. When it comes to the procedures...
The SIMS Web Address file has been updated
  May 25 2016

MIS

The SIMS Web Address Validation (WAV) Service allows schools to validate addresses in SIMS by accessing a Capita maintained database over the Internet. The database, which contains the details of ap...
SIMS Remote Services - maximising efficiency
  May 05 2016

MIS

Summer Census, Autumn Census, School Workforce Census, Spring Census…long gone are the days when school office staff could find some ‘quiet time’ to catch up on things. Here at School Business...
End of Key Stage – Scaled Scores
  April 28 2016

MIS

The month of May heralds end of key stage test time. As you will be aware, pupils studying the new national curriculum will not be assessed using levels; instead, levels will be replaced by scaled s...
Are you ready for the SIMS upgrade?
  March 23 2016

MIS

As many of you will already know, the SIMS Spring release is now available. Not only does this include many enhancements to SIMS, it also includes the latest release of FMS, which features changes t...
SIMS User Permissions Audit
  February 22 2016

MIS

As part of our continuing improvement for our SIMS Service and adding value for our customers, we are providing an audit service for SIMS users and permissions. Over the next couple of weeks we w...
SIMS Assessment is a BETT Show winner for 2016
  February 15 2016

MIS

We are pleased to announce that Capita/SIMS is a BETT Show Awards 2016 winner. We are very pleased to share the news that SIMS Assessment with the SIMS Teacher app has been voted best ICT Tool for...
Welcome to the team
  November 11 2015

MIS

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 ...
Win a Digital Camera!
  November 03 2015

MIS

School Business Services are currently undergoing the Capita SIMS re-accreditation The process for SIMS accreditation is very similar to schools undertaking an Ofsted inspection. The assessment requi...