Blogs & Updates

New SIMS Training Course - SIMS Interventions
  May 09 2017

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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...
Updated KS4 Resources including Scatter Graphs
  December 07 2016

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New Version of CAS Key Groups Inspection Dashboard Report This report has now been updated to include the 2016 National figures which have just been published. When imported, the updated report wil...
SIMS Assessment - KS1 use of 'N' grade in scaled scores
  June 22 2016

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Earlier this month, the DfE released the tables to convert Key Stage 1 raw scores into scaled scores. The tables showed that raw scores of 0, 1 or 2 convert to a scaled score of 'N'. However, this ...
SIMS Assessment Video
  June 09 2016

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Capita have produced a new SIMS Assessment video, which we believe would be of interest to our schools. The assessment landscape is ever-changing and, as schools adjust to the changes, they need to e...
SIMS Assessment is a BETT Show winner for 2016
  February 15 2016

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We are pleased to announce that Capita/SIMS is a BETT Show Awards 2016 winner. We are very pleased to share the news that SIMS Assessment with the SIMS Teacher app has been voted best ICT Tool for...
Assessment - Track pupils progress whatever method you choose
  January 18 2016

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Capita have published a new document for assessment which we feel would be useful for our schools. Assessment should support teaching and learning and be driven by your school’s own assessment po...
Giving teachers more freedom
  November 19 2015

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Giving teachers more freedom this Autumn with SIMS Assessment. Read Capita's Product Manager, Rachael Marshman’s blog on how SIMS is supporting school’s approach to assessment and what changes ...