Posted on 30th January 2019
Handling a School Closure in SIMS – Snow!
With snow starting to fall, and whilst it’s lovely to look at from the comfort of your home, it can cause havoc for schools and it might be necessary to close your school. Whilst we can’t help m...
Posted on 30th January 2019
Top tips for school staffing budget
Here at SBS Online, we know just how important efficient Staffing Budgeting is. Therefore, we have been thinking about staffing tips to make your life easier! With the new Superannuation proposal f...
Posted on 29th January 2019
Do you want to support PDSA by teaching your class how to be responsible pet owners?
Are your pupils passionate about pets? Well, why not support PDSA and sign up to their new free award programme, PetWise School Award? ...
Posted on 23rd January 2019
Top Tips for Social Media in Education
Social Media Guidefor Schools Using social media professionally can be scary at first, but it's worth it! Leveraging social for personal growth Social media platforms are powerful tools for professi...
Posted on 14th January 2019
There is an issue relating to the Spring School Census
It has been brought to our attention that there is an issue relating to the Early Years, Top-up Funding and Post Looked After Arrangements within the Spring School Census. A patch has now been made ...
Posted on 14th January 2019
CTF issue message appearing following the Autumn Upgrade
If a school has already taken the patch and/or confirmed against the CTF pop-up boxes they will not be asked to re-tick the boxes when the Autumn release is taken. Please note: schools which did no...
Posted on 11th January 2019
Tasks to be done within SIMS in January
This is a reminder for the tasks that need to be undertaken this month within SIMS. The SIMS Yearbook provides a list of suggested tasks that can be carried out during the course of the academic ye...
Posted on 11th January 2019
Migrate your Secure Access account to DfE Sign-in
It has been brought to our attention that number of schools are having issues with logging in to DfE secure access. As the site has been migrated to DfE Sign-in you will need to do this before you u...
Posted on 9th January 2019
New Census Fileset 1102 for Spring Census 2019
As notified in the previous blog we have been waiting for a new census fileset which has just been released. This fileset provides the following changes compared to Fileset 1100 and is now available...
Posted on 9th January 2019
School census 2018 to 2019
Please note: It's been brought to our attention that a previous blog regarding the School census 2018-2019 has encountered some technical issues, so this is a repaet blog post. The DfE has decide...
Posted on 8th January 2019
SIMS Spring Census guidance 2019
The SIMS Spring Census will be on Thursday 17th January 2019 Happy New Year from us at SBS and apologies for being the bearer of bad news, it’s the Spring School Census next week and to get you go...
Posted on 8th January 2019
Catholic Education Service (CES) Census 2019
For some of you there are two Census’s to complete, the CES Census is the extra one. Please see below a link to a Completing the Census guide, along with a couple of bits taken from it to get you o...