Posted on 19th March 2019
NEW Data Management Forum for Secondary Schools
NEW Data Management Forum for Secondary Schools Did you know about our Data Management Forums? These sessions are a great way of networking and being able to speak to other schools to see how they de...
Posted on 18th March 2019
Your SIMS Spring 2019 Release
Your SIMS Spring 2019 release is going to be available from Friday 22nd March Along with the usual fixes and making the Summer Census available there have been a few upgrades to the system. See belo...
Posted on 11th March 2019
New NJC Pay Scales
How to update the new NJC Pay Scales In April 2019 the NJC Pay Scales are changing and will need to be updated in your SIMS system. As this is something we only do once or twice a year we thought i...
Posted on 7th March 2019
April 2019 Support Staff Pay Scales update
This blog demonstrates how SBS Online users can apply the April 2019 Support Staff Pay Scales migration to their Custom Scales. With the complete restructure of Support Scales that’s taking place...
Posted on 6th March 2019
SIMS Agora has a new name... SIMS Pay
SIMS Pay, the new name for Capita’s payment system. Capita have decided that they are changing the name of their payment system from SIMS Agora to SIMS Pay. This is to help them align their service...
Posted on 5th March 2019
National Insurance Rates 2019/2020 for SIMS .net
As you are no doubt aware there are a new set of National Insurance Rates Tables which will need to be entered into your SIMS system Download the new NI Tables! ➝ If you don’t feel like adding ...
Posted on 28th February 2019
Update following Teachers' Pension Scheme valuation
As a result of the current valuation of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme, the Government has determined that the employer contribution rate should increase to 23.68%. This change takes effect from 1 ...
Posted on 27th February 2019
Important Message for All Teacher App Customers
Important Message for All Teacher App Customers – action required on 28th February 2019 The information outlined below needs to be reviewed by the member of staff responsible for the maintenance of...
Posted on 21st February 2019
Creating your Budget for the Next School Financial Year
As the financial year approaches one thing on everyone’s mind is creating their School Budget for next year. We have been thinking about ways we can make creating your 2019/20 Budget easier for yo...
Posted on 7th February 2019
Email security update for schools
It has been brought to our attention that we have had a couple of instances where a rule has been set up within Microsoft Outlook email client to forward all emails to a different email address. We...
Posted on 6th February 2019
Complimentary SIMS Overview - Wednesday 1st May 2019
This event is an opportunity for Primary schools to visit our London venue to find out more about the latest benefits of SIMS. Did you know about our SIMS Overview Sessions? Following on from the suc...
Posted on 4th February 2019
New 2019/20 National Insurance Calculations
The new 2019/20 National Insurance table is now available for you to apply to your budgets. From April 2019, the employer contribution rate of 13.8% will remain the same, but the thresholds have bee...