Blogs & Updates

Your SIMS Spring 2019 Release
  March 18 2019

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...
Creating your Budget for the Next School Financial Year
  February 21 2019
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...
Email security update for schools
  February 07 2019
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...
Complimentary SIMS Overview - Wednesday 1st May 2019
  February 06 2019

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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...