Blogs & Updates

New Teacher Pay Scales
  September 21 2018
We have updated our pay scales to the official amounts announced. The majority of the new teacher pay scales matched our predictions, the main differences were on the Unqualified scales. These inclu...
Your updated Pupil Premium 2018/19
  September 21 2018

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As many of you are no doubt aware, your Pupil Premium ‘ticks’ will not have carried over from last year and so will need to be re-entered. Thankfully to make our lives a little easier, you can ...
Funding Predictor and other updates
  September 11 2018
We have introduced a new version of our Funding Predictor in SBS Online. The new version Funding Predictor allows our schools who have FSM plus FSM6 to input both of these values. We have also update...
MIS Service Desk high volume of calls
  September 06 2018

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The MIS Service Desk is experiencing an exceptionally high volume of calls this week and we would please ask that you bear with us as we will deal with things in a priority order. We do understand t...
Teachers' Pay Scales from September 2018
  August 29 2018
We have implemented new Teachers' Pay Scales for 2018/19 in SBS Online. The new scales are STC (subject to confirmation) while we wait for official news about the rates in Inner London, Outer Londo...
Guest blog: A new dawn for schools?
  August 14 2018
A new dawn for schools? Guest post from Julie Cordiner, School Financial Success Changes in the air Listening to the experiences, views and concerns of headteachers, SBLs, governors and other spea...
Urgent and Important – Exams PI Report Problem
  August 13 2018

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Exams PI Report Problem It has been found that the fileset 1001 causes a problem for one of the reports in the Exams PI and it has therefore been withdrawn. The existence of this fileset may be unkno...
SIMS Exams and Results Day – 2018 edition
  July 30 2018

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The summer holidays are finally upon us with Mediterranean sunshine to help us forget about the school year, but for those of you involved in SIMS Exams and Results Day there’s still a little more ...
News round-up from the SBS Capita-accredited SIMS team
  July 25 2018

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SBS MIS support team achieves Capita SIMS accreditation for the third time! Our accreditation visit, led by Capita's Professional Services team, took place during the SBS Company Developmen...
New SIMS patch available: Issue with Contacts and CTFs with Pre-Admissions
  July 18 2018

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This is an update from our previous blog in June Previous information: what is the issue? Capita have discovered an issue with importing CTFs for pre-admissions that may cause some problems with yo...