Changes to SEN & Homepage and Student Teacher View Enhancements Lucy Crawford and Geoff Perry
What will be covered? Lucy Crawford - Assistant Product Manager for Attendance and SEN Covering changes to the Homepage and Student Teacher View based around the setup of widgets and changes in how they look Changes to the Children and Families’ Bill and how it affects SEN in schools Geoff Perry – Product Manager for Core, Curriculum and Exams Covering changes to the Homepage, especially technical Changes to Cover Changes to Curriculum reporting
Changes to SEN
SEN Changes to the Children and Families Bill has resulted in a new indicative draft Code of Practice for SEND – Special Educational Needs and Disabilities These changes will be for England only, but the SEN area in SIMS is being updated too
SEN – Statutory changes Changes to School Action, School Action Plus and Statement Education, Health and Care Plans. Change to unify approach across all three sectors giving a more joined up approach New category, hopefully to be defined with Draft Code of Practice – possibly called School Support School Support
SEN – Statutory Changes Actual Status Ability to apply for an EHCP Ability to review statuses at either of the two new levels, as previously Ability to have pupils/students on any SEN status new or old within SIMS
SEN – planned functional changes Allow pupils/students with an SEN status of ‘N – No special educational need’ to ‘<Never Assigned> Add SEN need to the Attendance by Vulnerability Report
SEN – planned functional changes Welsh fields Add SENCO to ‘Linked Adults and Agencies Panel’ Add SEN Provisions as a filter to Marksheets in Assessment Manager
SEN – Planned functional changes Pre-defined report on SEN Provisions Learning strategies field – SEN Quicknote
Class SEN Pop – up to show the needs of a class Mock-up screen to show idea
SEN What information would you consider to be the most useful on a provision report? Attendance Pupil name Conduct Attainment SEN details such as provisions, status, needs
SEN If you could see a summary of SEN information from the register, what information would you want? Status Need Provision Free text on classroom strategies Access arrangements Photo Link to SEN page
Homepage and Student Teacher View
Student Teacher View Setup It is now possible to order all 6 Aspects on the Student Teacher View. It is also possible to view individual student conduct by either points or incidents Show STV (Grenetta Abbey), show aspects, show points. CLOSE Go to STV setup change order of Aspects for year 9, change from behaviour points to behaviour incidents SAVE Reopen Grenetta Abbey, show change in order
Student Teacher View Timeline Previously, classes where there were multiple supervisors showed as multiple boxes on the Student Teacher View These supervisors have now been merged into one box and show in brackets after the main class teacher See 9y/Sc3 for demonstrating this.
Attendance Widgets Present + Authorised Absence is now being changed to Present + AEA in all places that it previously occurred. Label and actual calculation Student Teacher View: Attendance Widget and Intervention Widget Homepage Attendance Widget All instances of attendance on the homepage and Student Teacher View now have 2 decimal places
Attendance Widgets Missing marks are now included on the Homepage widgets, giving you a quick overview of which cohorts have missing marks.