Blogs & Updates
Online Free School Meals
March 25 2019
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
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
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...
Your SIMS Spring 2019 Release
March 18 2019
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...
New NJC Pay Scales
March 11 2019
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...
April 2019 Support Staff Pay Scales update
March 07 2019
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...
SIMS Agora has a new name... SIMS Pay
March 06 2019
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...
National Insurance Rates 2019/2020 for SIMS .net
March 05 2019
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 ...
Update following Teachers' Pension Scheme valuation
February 28 2019
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 ...
Important Message for All Teacher App Customers
February 27 2019
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...
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