Blogs & Updates
Tasks to be done within SIMS in January
January 11 2019
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...
Migrate your Secure Access account to DfE Sign-in
January 11 2019
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...
New Census Fileset 1102 for Spring Census 2019
January 09 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...
School census 2018 to 2019
January 09 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...
SIMS Spring Census guidance 2019
January 08 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...
Catholic Education Service (CES) Census 2019
January 08 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...
Sage, Profile Monitor and other Updates
December 13 2018
We have worked with Sage to produce a report template you can upload into your Excel Reports within Sage.
This report will allow you to easily generate a Budget Monitor to import into SBS Online at j...
NEW Training Schoolz Module
December 12 2018
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Great for every School - Primary, Secondary, Specials and MATS
Do you need a simple, fast and effective way to make sure your staff training is kept up to date?
Training Schoolz is an online servi...
School census 2018 to 2019
December 04 2018
The DfE has decided that there is no longer a requirement to collect three items in future census’s and these are Proficiency in English, Pupil Country of Birth and Pupil Nationality.
Therefore un...
SIMS Autumn Upgrade - 7.184
November 20 2018
Your SIMS Autumn Upgrade is here! (7.184)
We have attached a document to show you all of the latest improvements changes to SIMS within this upgrade. Of course you will require this Autumn version t...
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