Blogs & Updates
Summer Census is cancelled!
April 21 2020
The DfE have now announced that the summer census is cancelled.
It is vital at this time, that all educational settings are able to focus on the impact of COVID-19 by providing for the children in t...
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...
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...
New Census Fileset 902 for Summer Census 2018
May 11 2018
Please note that this blog was previously issued with an incorrect fileset number.
As usual there has been a new fileset released.
Please ensure that you have had your Summer upgrade and are on SIM...
SIMS Summer Census 2018 guidance
May 02 2018
The SIMS Summer Census will be on Thursday 17th May 2018
It finally feels like Spring has come with April showers and glorious sunshine and along with it comes another census.
This one’s a nice ...
SIMS Spring Census guidance
January 12 2018
The SIMS Spring Census will be on Thursday 18th January 2018
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...
Preparing for your Spring Census 2018
December 08 2017
Sorry to have to put a downer on your race to the Christmas holidays but it occurs that you’ll not be long back before you have to start thinking about your Spring School Census.
Don’t worry, thi...
SIMS Autumn Census guidance
September 19 2017
The SIMS Autumn Census will be on Thursday 5th October 2017
With October coming around fast it’s time again for that joyous thing that is the October School Census. To help with carrying it out we
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