Welcome to the Spring software update session

Housekeeping  Mobile phones  Toilets  Fire exits

Agenda  Preparing for the Summer Term BREAK  Capita Quality and Customer Care processes  SIMS developments for academies and schools

Preparing for the summer term

SIMS Yearbook  Check list/reminder of key tasks  Provides links to related information  Useful guidance for new staff  Is updated during SIMS upgrades Preparation

SIMS Admissions Groups  Pupil data input efficiently managed  Profile of student performance and contextual data supports early planning and intervention  Personalised communications with new parents/carers  Safeguarding – all students accounted for at the point of transfer Data in once, shared many times

Student lists  Extract key student data items quickly and simply  Provide to user in a variety of formats  Access using different technologies  Safeguarding – all students accounted for at the point of transfer Anytime access

Student progress  Quickly indentify students who are not achieving targets  Quickly track progress of key pupil groups  Identify success of interventions  Profile performance year on year Enhanced learning

SIMS Developments - Headlines

SIMS Developments – Headlines  Updated Primary Tracking Progress Grids for England to show P-scales alongside NC levels  Updated 2012 Key stage Assessment Wizards for England and Wales  Group filters now added to Group Analysis Assessment

SIMS Developments – Headlines Assessment

SIMS Developments – Headlines Discover

SIMS Developments – Headlines Discover

SIMS Developments – Headlines  Restrict the attendance codes for users  Take Register – additional columns  Achievement, Quick Note, Boarder Status  Teachers add student to register  Persistent Absence Report – ability to select 15% or 20%  History of changes report in Lesson Monitor shows who originally recorded the mark Attendance & Lesson Monitor

SIMS Developments – Headlines Attendance & Lesson Monitor

SIMS Developments – Headlines NOVA T6

SIMS Developments – Headlines  Exams – user definable special arrangements  Reports – filters re deceased students  Profiles – Tutors read only access to other areas of report Send alert when report marked not approved

SIMS Developments – Headlines  Consistent Financial Reporting  Asset Management  Automatic journal entries for add and retire  Create automatic straightline depreciation journals  Reports  Asset List  Retired Assets  Asset by Asset Detail Reports Finance

SIMS Developments – Headlines  Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Office  SQL 2008 will be supported throughout 2012 and 2013  Need to plan and budget for migration to SQL 2012 for both licence and technical work  Support end for Office 2003 in Spring 2013  Plan upgrade to Office 2010 Technical

SIMS Developments – Headlines  SupportNet –  SIMS Roadmap – Resource  SIMS Technical Roadmap –  Release information – SIMS Documentation Supporting Documentation & Information