Blogs & Updates
SIMS End of Year Procedures
June 06 2017
The final half term of the academic year means it's time to prepare for and carry out the SIMS end of year procedures, including creating a new academic year, setting up next year’s registratio...
Intermediaries Legislation (IR35)
May 24 2017
Changes to Intermediaries Legislation (IR35) and what this means for your school
HMRC have recently announced changes to the Intermediaries Legislation (IR35) and all public-sector employers are resp...
Advice for schools on the Ransomware crisis
May 15 2017
Following the recent NHS Ransomware crisis, as well as many other organisations being impacted, we feel it is important to send out an update on this subject.
As covered in our previous blogs, ther...
May Returns
May 12 2017
Not some political prophecy, but a look at this month’s academy returns.
ESFA Returns
Academies are reminded that their Budget Forecast Return – Outturn must be submitted by Friday 19th May. Pe...
New SIMS Training Course - SIMS Interventions
May 09 2017
Some of you may have already looked at the new SIMS Interventions area following the latest SIMS Spring release.
Designed to help teachers and SLT track underperforming pupils, SIMS Interventions en...
Known Issue with SIMS Attendance 'Today's Register Report'
May 03 2017
Many schools have reported an issue with running the Today's Register Report via Reports | Attendance | Whole Group Pupil Reports.
When clicking 'OK' to Run a Screen Based report, the following err...
Is your school going to be used as a polling station?
May 02 2017
If so, you will need to add the school closure as an Exceptional Circumstance in SIMS using the '#' code.
Creating an Exceptional Circumstance in SIMS
Select Focus | Attendance (or Lesson Monitor...
SIMS Summer Census guidance
April 28 2017
The SIMS Summer Census will be on Thursday 18th May 2017
Our phase-specific documentation will take you step by step through the preparation and production of the Census return.
Preparing for th...
Performance Measures for England 2017 – Important News
April 28 2017
Did you know that this summer Capita SIMS will not be creating a Performance Measures file (PM file) for English schools?
Instead, Capita have introduced some new tools within SIMS intended to enab...
The DfE, SARA and what it means for academies
April 25 2017
In this blog we look a little deeper into why academies are required to complete additional returns, and catch up on other news from the EFA and TPS.
Sector Annual Report & Accounts (SARA)
As P...
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