Blogs & Updates

June SIMS Training Courses from SBS
  June 03 2019

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Take a refresher this Summer! Take a look at the June SIMS Training Courses from SBS and see what we have to offer! Our SIMS training courses are ideal for maximising the use of your system, traini...
Prior Attainment Banding (Advice from ASCL)
  May 23 2019

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In the absence of official guidance from the DfE around the Prior Attainment Banding information for cohorts with scaled scores, ASCL have provided a suggested course of action. Download PDF → P...
New Census Fileset 1203 for Summer Census 2019
  May 14 2019

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Capita have now made available the final version of the Census fileset for the summer Census 2019. We are not expecting there to be another one released before the census. As usual, please ensure th...
Update to school Funding Predictor in SBS Online
  May 03 2019
We have released a new and improved version of the school Funding Predictor. The new school Funding Predictor allows you to add Free Type lines to cater for more areas of funding. Any Free Type line...
May SIMS Training Courses from SBS
  April 30 2019

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Fancy brushing up on your skills this term? Take a look at the May SIMS Training Courses from SBS! Our SIMS training courses are ideal for maximising the use of your system, training your team or t...
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...