Blogs & Updates

SIMS Summer Census 2019 guidance
  April 26 2019

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The SIMS Summer Census will be on Thursday 16th May this year. Congratulations, you’ve survived 2 of them, and only one more to go for this academic year. The final census of the year is tradition...
SIMS Maintaining the Timetable Training Course
  April 16 2019

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SIMS Maintaining the Timetable Training Course coming this month! Our upcoming SIMS Maintaining the Timetable Training Course is a rewarding course for all staff responsible for the day-to-day main...
CFR Framework Changes
  April 15 2019
There has been two changes to the CFR Framework for the financial year 2019/20. The Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) framework provides a standard template for all maintained schools to collec...
DfE to fund Teacher Pension increase
  April 11 2019
The government has announced that the Teacher Pension employer contributions increase will be funded. One item that has been concerning schools is whether the approaching employers teacher pension i...
NJC Support Scales Migration April '19
  April 09 2019
SBS Online are offering two migration scripts for users to implement the new NJC Support Scales structure. The details of these migrations and how they would affect your budget have been emailed to...
Update: CTF Issue with SIMS Spring Release (7.186)
  April 05 2019

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Further information from Capita on the CTF Issue What’s the Issue? What’s the Fix? Capita have now given us further information on the issue with the SIMS Spring Release (7.186). Please see bel...
CTF issue with SIMS Spring Release (7.186)
  April 04 2019

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Current precautionary advice: Do not to use the CTF mechanism to share pupil and contact details with other schools until further notice Capita have informed us that there could be a CTF issue in th...
Online Free School Meals
  March 25 2019

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Easy free school meal administration. In this age of Universal Infant Free School Meals, and importance of the Pupil Premium funding, it’s important that all eligible pupils are signed up. With ...
SIMS Training Courses from SBS in April
  March 21 2019

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What's coming up in April? Take a look at April's SIMS Training Courses to see if anything catches your eye! Below are our upcoming SIMS Training Courses and dates: 24th April 2019 SIMS System Man...
NEW Data Management Forum for Secondary Schools
  March 19 2019

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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...