Blogs & Updates
SIMS End of Year Procedures
June 06 2017
The final half term of the academic year means it's time to prepare for and carry out the SIMS end of year procedures, including creating a new academic year, setting up next year’s registratio...
New SIMS Training Course - SIMS Interventions
May 09 2017
Some of you may have already looked at the new SIMS Interventions area following the latest SIMS Spring release.
Designed to help teachers and SLT track underperforming pupils, SIMS Interventions en...
Known Issue with SIMS Attendance 'Today's Register Report'
May 03 2017
Many schools have reported an issue with running the Today's Register Report via Reports | Attendance | Whole Group Pupil Reports.
When clicking 'OK' to Run a Screen Based report, the following err...
SIMS Summer Census guidance
April 28 2017
The SIMS Summer Census will be on Thursday 18th May 2017
Our phase-specific documentation will take you step by step through the preparation and production of the Census return.
Preparing for th...
SIMS Spring Release 2017
March 06 2017
The next SIMS update is due for release on Friday 10th March 2017.
If we usually run the upgrade for you, please contact our MIS Service Desk on 0345 222 1551 • Option 3 as soon as possible so tha...
Statutory Analysis Reports for KS1 and KS2
February 07 2017
Capita have recently updated their KS1 and KS2 analysis tools to incorporate the revised measures for 2015/16.
These can be downloaded from the links further down the page (refer to the steps shown o...
Spring Census 2017 - COLLECT issue resolved
January 20 2017
Further to our blog post yesterday afternoon we can confirm that the DfE have fixed the issue affecting Census file uploads to COLLECT.
Please contact us if you require any assistance with your Sp...
Spring Census 2017 - Issues with COLLECT upload
January 19 2017
This post is for all schools and academies who upload their Census files straight to COLLECT.
We have been made aware of an issue whereby some authorised files are not uploading and COLLECT is genera...
CES (Catholic Education Service) Census 2017
January 17 2017
The CES Census 2017 is this Thursday (19th January) - the same date as the Spring Census for the DfE.
The Catholic Education Service has many resources to support schools with this return includi...
Spring Census - Fileset 502
January 03 2017
A new Fileset (502) has been made available by Capita for the Spring Census.
It contains updates to both the summary report and validation files.
Downloading and Applying a Fileset
Please check tha...
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