Blogs & Updates
Update - Schools receive phishing emails posing as headteachers
February 20 2017
Following on from our blog last month about schools receiving Vishing (‘Voice phishing’) phone calls from fraudsters posing as ‘Department of Education’ officials, please be aware that schoo...
2017/2018 National Insurance Rates for SIMS
February 14 2017
The new 2017/2018 National Insurance table rates will need to be added to SIMS Personnel.
The following table displays the new rates:
Band
Upper Monthly Earnings Limit
Lower Monthly Earnings Limi...
The importance of school server room maintenance
February 13 2017
Server rooms are important areas of schools that require regular maintenance.
School server room maintenance helps to retain ICT performance, conserve the condition of your equipment and minimise th...
How to Save £1 Billion
February 09 2017
The Department for Education has issued further support to schools and academies to increase the value for money delivered – giving support to save £1 billion a year.
We would urge all schools an...
Statutory Analysis Reports for KS1 and KS2
February 07 2017
Capita have recently updated their KS1 and KS2 analysis tools to incorporate the revised measures for 2015/16.
These can be downloaded from the links further down the page (refer to the steps shown o...
SIMS Exams - New Gradesets - patch 22729
February 07 2017
The Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) have released new Gradesets to match new Basedata.
The following gradesets have been introduced:
Gradesets 48 to 57, relating to variations of GCSEs
Gr...
Top tips to keep children safe online
February 03 2017
To keep children safe online, it is important that schools acknowledge the key areas of action, promote engagement and awareness and involve the different responsible parties:
eSafety learning - As...
SBS Online 2017/18 National Insurance Calculations
January 30 2017
The new 2017/18 National Insurance table is now available to apply to your budgets.
From April 2017, the employer's contribution rate of 13.8% will remain the same, but the thresholds have increased...
January Update
January 30 2017
As academies struggled to submit their AAR by the January deadline here is some news you may have missed.
Academy Accounts Return
As extensively reported, Peter Lauener has written to all academies p...
Progress 8 and Attainment 8
January 27 2017
Progress 8 and Attainment 8 are hot topics right now.
Last Thursday, when most schools and academies were running their Census, the DfE published the national performance tables for Key Stages 4 and ...
ICT