Rachael Marshman SIMS Performance Suite

Assessment in SIMS is evolving

This year enhancements already include New Resources: Templates, tracking grids, analysis grids and progress grids that schools can import and use straight away Increased Functionality: Features to improve productivity, efficiency, aid analysis and change requests

So, what Resources are available now?

Resources available now Templates, Tracking Grids & Analysis Early Years Foundation Stage Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 (levels and points) Progress Grids KS1 and KS2 New Curriculum Schools can import and start using straight away

Resources available now Templates, Tracking Grids & Analysis Early Years Foundation Stage Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 (levels and points) Progress Grids KS1 and KS2 New Curriculum Schools can import and start using straight away

Resources available now Templates, Tracking Grids & Analysis Early Years Foundation Stage Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 (levels and points) Progress Grids KS1 and KS2 New Curriculum Schools can import and start using straight away

Resources available now Templates, Tracking Grids & Analysis Early Years Foundation Stage Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 (levels and points) Progress Grids KS1 and KS2 New Curriculum Schools can import and start using straight away

Resources available now Templates, Tracking Grids & Analysis Early Years Foundation Stage Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 (levels and points) Progress Grids KS1 and KS2 New Curriculum Schools can import and start using straight away

What changes have been made to pre-defined progress grids?

Progress Grid: New Curriculum Subjects tabs split further in Autumn

Progress Grid: New Curriculum Overall judgement now available

Progress Grid: New Curriculum Bullet-point Gradeset updated No Levels ‘below expected’ becomes Emerging = just starting to learn knowledge or skill ‘At expected’ becomes Developing = increasing understanding ‘Above expected’ becomes Secure = achieved the knowledge or skill New Grade ‘Mastered’ to indicate when a child is using and applying skill(s) across the curriculum

Track knowledge and skills for all subjects Resource Progress Grid – New Curriculum All Core and Foundation subjects Knowledge by subject and strand End of year and end of key stage expectations Statutory and non statutory guidance

Consultations - Feedback Need efficient way to manage assessments Instant analysis, evidence of progress Want to move away from progress grids teachers find them time-consuming Outcome New solution available for Spring...

What is the next phase for the New Curriculum in SIMS going to look like?

New screen to display knowledge and skills descriptors Ability to select assessment period for data entry Quick data entry for individuals or groups Set current targets (teaching focussed) New summary row definitions New summary columns Linked analysis and reports Spring 2015

New Style Screen - Display Descriptors Example Marksheet

New screen to display knowledge and skills descriptors Ability to select assessment period for data entry Quick data entry for individuals or groups Set current targets (teaching focussed) New summary row definitions New summary columns Linked analysis and reports Spring 2015

Select Assessment Period Apply global resultset to marksheet Ensures data is recorded for the right period of time Removes need to duplicate columns for each term Example Marksheet

Viewing Historical information Visual indication to highlight achievement not recorded within this assessment period Example Marksheet

New screen to display knowledge and skills descriptors Ability to select assessment period for data entry Quick data entry for individuals or groups Set current targets (teaching focussed) New summary row definitions New summary columns Linked analysis and reports Spring 2015

Quick data entry Allow for Data Entry against an individual child for all skills or whole group for one skill Example Marksheet

Quick data entry Allow for Data Entry against an individual child for all skills (horizontal) or whole group for one skill (Vertical) Example Marksheet

New screen to display knowledge and skills descriptors Ability to select assessment period for data entry Quick data entry for individuals or groups Set current targets (teaching focussed) New summary row definitions New summary columns Linked analysis and reports Spring 2015

Set ‘Current Targets’ Only applies to the new knowledge statement columns Y indicates a focus skill during this assessment period ‘ Set current target’ value can help schools calculate progress for the skills they are specifically focusing on

New screen to display knowledge and skills descriptors Ability to select assessment period for data entry Quick data entry for individuals or groups Set current targets (teaching focussed) New summary row definitions New summary columns Linked analysis and reports Spring 2015

New Summary Row Definitions Only applies to the new knowledge statement columns Displays both the number and percentage of pupils achieving a particular skill Example Marksheet

New screen to display knowledge and skills descriptors Ability to select assessment period for data entry Quick data entry for individuals or groups Set current targets (teaching focussed) New summary row definitions New summary columns Linked analysis and reports Spring 2015

New Summary Columns % of last years expectations achieved % of end of this year expectations achieved % of current ‘targets’ achieved Example Marksheet

How will attainment and progress information be reported?

Knowledge statement report Red text indicates curriculum descriptors Highlights knowledge achieved Displays knowledge to work towards Example Reports

Progress Tracking and Reporting Visual representation of Achievement & what’s ‘expected’ Compares ‘Year Expected Target’) against number of statements achieved for an individual pupil Note: this is a mock-up to provide an example of a possible visual representation Example Reports

Group overview – Subject / Strand / Statement Example 'New Curriculum' Summary showing Achievement Ability to review Cohort Boys / Girls / EAL / FSM / PP / SEN Etc. Preferably side-by-side Example Reports

Group overview – Subject / Strand Example 'New Curriculum' Summary showing progress Ability to review Cohort Boys Girls EAL SEN G&T Etc. Example Reports

Group overview - Subject Example 'New Curriculum' Summary showing progress Ability to review Cohort Boys Girls EAL SEN G&T Etc. Example Reports

What does the removal of National Curriculum Levels mean for SIMS?

New National Curriculum and SIMS In the Product: Comprehensive solution for tracking knowledge and skills against the New Curriculum Resources for maintaining levels and points

New National Curriculum and SIMS SIMS Assessment is a flexible system that can be tailored to suit emerging requirements Schemes can be tweaked or adapted to evolve as more evidence of what ‘good looks like’ becomes known. September 2014 National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) published ‘Beyond levels, alternative approach developed by teaching schools’ (p31)NCTL

New National Curriculum and SIMS SIMS Assessment is a flexible system that can be tailored to suit emerging requirements Schemes can be tweaked or adapted to evolve as more evidence of what ‘good looks like’ becomes known Included in the Product: A comprehensive solution for tracking knowledge and skills against the New Curriculum is being incorporated into SIMS that schools can use ‘out of the box’

New Features in SIMS...

Highlights Some of the new Features introduced into SIMS this year Summer: Mapping Tool Aspect swapping on Templates Autumn: SIMS School Report

Mapping Tool Enables schools to match their own Aspects, Resultsets and Gradesets to those provided by Capita Why is this useful? Drives linked analysis in the SIMS School Report Populates Capita Pre-Defined resources Marksheets Tracking Grids Analysis Discover

Assessment Mapping Facility - Aspects Mapping Tool

Assessment Mapping Facility - Resultsets Mapping Tool

Assessment Mapping Facility - Gradesets Mapping Tool

Further Mapping Tool updates for Autumn Aspect no Result Set to Aspect and Result Set Export and Import Delete and Clone KS4 Aspects

How can this help? Speeds up resource creation by swapping like-for-like aspects when cloning Aspect Swapping

Other functionality introduced this year Marksheets Group rows by cell colour Hide/unhide selected columns Improved highlighting of columns and rows Analysis Ability to delete imported analysis Individual Reports Additional data tags in individual reports

More updates for Autumn

Mapping Tool Enhancements Aspect no Result Set to Aspect and Result Set

Mapping Tool Enhancements Export and Import

Mapping Tool Enhancements Delete and Clone

Mapping Tool Enhancements KS4 Aspects

SIMS School Report and Assessment

New SIMS School Report The new School Report provides an instant overview of your school based on the latest data held in SIMS, giving school leadership and governors insight into areas of strength and weakness to inform their decisions. Includes Assessment

How can schools measure progress against the new curriculum?

Measuring progress Numerical values have been added to each statement of knowledge and skill in the Progress Grid included in the SIMS Autumn release Early access to this file can be achieved by downloading a copy from: SupportNet (file sharing) as Resource xxxx via the AMPARK website (

Are there any items out of scope for this release?

New Curriculum Next Steps Linked analysis and one-click-reports have not yet been provided. These will be introduced in the next release. New Curriculum Marksheets New Curriculum Analysis Reports

Consultations - Feedback Need efficient way to manage statements of knowledge Want to move away from progress grids teachers find them time-consuming Want instant analysis and see evidence of progress Outcome New solution planned for Spring...

Spring 2015 – Overview of planned features New Curriculum Screen New Curriculum Analysis Report Updates to Statutory Returns for 2015

Questions

Your questions and feedback? Rachael Marshman

How will assessment data transfer when pupils move schools? KS1 and KS2 data will be standardised so will transfer via CTF There is no standardisation of results between key stages as schools have own freedoms DfE are still in discussion for best option to suit the CTF, current thinking is via ‘free text’ boxes.

Ben Jones Parental Engagement

“ “ SIMS Learning Gateway SLG provides secure access to children’s progress for parents and strengthens the triangle of communication between school, parent and pupil. Neil McClements Rainey Endowed School

SIMS Learning Gateway Installed in over 2,500 schools Over 600 schools on Capita Hosted SLG Continued growth this year

SLG Headlines Expand Two Way Communication Deliver Customer Change Requests Continue to enhance Homework Develop ease of reporting HSLG – Password Management

HSLG – over the summer Communication went out to all HSLG schools Reminder of process New UI for logging on Removal of \Hosted

Autumn - Passport Number in Data Collection Sheet

Autumn – Marksheet Summary 1.Colour Rendering Improvements 2.Marksheet Summary

Autumn - Hyperlinks for contact info

Autumn – Homework Assessment in SIMS 1.Teacher link homework to aspect and result set in SIMS

Homework cont Teacher link homework to aspect and result set in SIMS 2.Update Reporting Dictionary Add Staff and School Add extended due date 3.Class Information and select students from class

Spring 2015 – Homework Statuses "show late homework" will be changed to "show homework status“ web part property to globally hide all statuses

Spring 2015 – Teacher Homework View Homepage Widget for teachers to view their own homework

Spring 2014 – Pre-defined Reports All fields available in reporting dictionary Homework Teacher Hierarchy SLG Alert Widget How many parents have completed DCS How many parents have read published reports Report for which parents have not

If we can.....Reports in SLG Widgets

“ “ SIMS InTouch SIMS InTouch saves us time and makes communication instant, helping with behaviour and attendance issues Janet Eppleston North Chadderton

InTouch in 2014 Total s processed.... Total SMS processed.... Total s and SMS received million 4.2 million 1/2 million

Making InTouch even easier to support Removal of VPN and IIS means: InTouch is even easier to support Reduce lead time Low touch install Easy to switch over Upgrade to Autumn

How will Schools upgrade? InTouch web services and VPN run in parallel If SSM not installed, InTouch continues to run with VPN on Autumn School upgrades to Autumn SSM is installed & InTouch services started School receives , copy and pastes the licence key into set up screen

Install Process

InTouch Spring No need to set up the Scheduler Service Automatic Scheduling of Messages and Reminders Improvements to Spam filtering Further increase speed Store templates in the school database Flag messages

“ “ SIMS Agora Using SIMS Agora has been very easy for our school – it just works! Our parents like the system too and really appreciate the convenience of being able to make payments online, whenever and wherever they wish to. Mrs Jean Robinson Didsbury CofE Primary School

Agora Installed in over 255 schools Over 18,500 active parent accounts Over £3.5 million processed since launch 99,000 transactions September - £500,000 transaction value

Agora Headlines LA Demo sites made available to sales Cashless Catering ready for early adopters Only Accredited SIMS Partners Ability to roll back data if required FMS Pilot underway Improved child management capabilities and usability

Part of making Agora the One Stop Shop for parents to make all payments for their children Enables parents to pay for their child’s dinner money online with funds automatically credited to the pupils account Removes cash from school premises What is Cashless Catering?

Rollback of SIMS The rollback tool detects any schools that require data to be rolled back and confirms the number of changesets affected.

Rollback Tool The user is given several pieces of verification information to ensure the right school has been selected.

The tool will confirm the status of the rollback as it progresses. Rollback Tool

Progress can be tracked by status.

Additional Synchronisation Statuses The green tick denotes a successful synchronisation The orange exclamation mark means no synchronisation in the last 24 hours The red cross means synchronisation failed The cycle means it has an unknown synchronisation status The Agora Dashboard screen shows the synchronisation status of the SIMS upload, the FMS download and the School Meals upload and downloads.

Improve Child Management Ability to easily add children Ability to change the preferred child name Ability to change the order that children appear on screen Ability to show or hide children Clearer labels and options

Improve Child Management – Adding a child Add Child button now on homepage A wizard now guides customers to add initial and additional children

The edit function allows the name the child appears as can be changed The customer can change the order children appear on the homepage Improve Child Management - Personalisation Labels have been changed to be more intuitive

Before Christmas..... Universal Free School Meals Diagnostics and Reporting Student Statement of all Transactions Documentation for SIMS Support Units Record Refunds

Manual Refunds

Manual Refunds – Select Order Item

Manual Refunds – Marked as Refund

Manual Refund – Finalise Refund

Agora Future Priorities Improvements to on-boarding process Functionality Enhancements Product Page enhancements Reporting Notifications Paypoint Paying in instalments Transaction surcharges Store card facility

Thank you Your questions? Ben Jones