Blogs & Updates
Adding a School Closure (Exceptional Circumstance) in SIMS
May 06 2016
If your school is fully or partially closed to students because it is being used as a Polling Station, DfE advice states that the # code be used.
Code #: Planned whole or partial school closure
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SIMS Remote Services - maximising efficiency
May 05 2016
Summer Census, Autumn Census, School Workforce Census, Spring Census…long gone are the days when school office staff could find some ‘quiet time’ to catch up on things.
Here at School Business...
Support staff pay scales 2016 - latest news
May 05 2016
Just a quick update with regards to the support staff pay scales for 2016. You may well be aware of this, but for those of you who are not, we hope that this proves useful.
In March, two of the recogn...
Changing role of the SBM
May 04 2016
A bumper finance and business post will be published next week. In the meantime, here's something we thought you might like to read.
Changing role of the SBM
We wanted to share this really interes...
School Census - Fileset 302
May 03 2016
A new Fileset (302) has been made available by Capita for the Summer Census.
It contains updates to both the summary report and validation files.
Downloading and Applying a Fileset
Please check tha...
School budget setting process
April 29 2016
How was it for you?
School budget setting process 2016-17
We are keen to hear about how you found your school budget setting process this year. With many schools submitting their budget in early May...
End of Key Stage – Scaled Scores
April 28 2016
The month of May heralds end of key stage test time.
As you will be aware, pupils studying the new national curriculum will not be assessed using levels; instead, levels will be replaced by scaled s...
Changes to CFR & March Accounts Return
April 26 2016
April is a busy period in all schools.
For those in the maintained sector it is the start of a new financial year - with the EFA announcing changes to CFR.
All academies are required to provide ...
Summer Census time
April 20 2016
The Summer census is on Thursday 19th May.
Our step by step documentation to help you prepare for summer census time and run the census is now available for download via the links below. You wi...
Identify and track behavioural issues with SIMS
April 13 2016
Did you know you can use SIMS to identify and track students with behavioural issues?
Lucy Crawford from Capita shows you how to use the SIMS homepage to track the students you want to monitor, create...
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