Statutory Returns

End of Key Stage Returns

End of Key Stage Bulletin on the Scomis Home Page Contains latest issues and links to updated documentation and user guides

End of Key Stage Re-Issued Reports Capita have re-issued the EYFS National Reports and KS1 Student Report because of inaccuracies Details are on the bulletin with a link to download and import the new reports

End of Key Stage Year 1 and Year 2 Phonics wizards will be re-issued on 30 th June 2014 The EYFS Wizard contains last year’s passmark for the Phonics. The DfE will only be advising software suppliers of this year’s passmark on 30 th June. Bulletin will be kept up to date and new wizard linked in for download as soon as it is available.

School Census Autumn 2014

News and Documentation Autumn School Census Files are loaded with the Summer Upgrade. Fileset 170 is included in the Summer Upgrade Any new filesets and patches will be automatically applied to Hosted Schools and posted on the bulletin for non-hosted schools. Autumn Census bulletin will be available on the Scomis homepage during June.

School Census Autumn 2014 Overview Census Date: 2 nd October Changes to the Pupil Characteristics Module School Lunch Taken on Reference Date

All R, Year 1 and 2 pupils will show in a list We will give the user the choice of defaulting the ticks from information available in the Dinner Money application or in the Attendance application or no default

School Workforce Census 2014

School Workforce Census 2014 Overview DfE changes compared to SWC 2013 Census Reference Date 6th November 2014 QTS route now to be included for all staff who, since the previous school workforce census, have taken up their first position since qualifying as a teacher, regardless of when they qualified School Direct and School Direct (salaried) now included in the range of QTS routes.

School Workforce Census 2014 Overview DfE changes compared to SWC 2013 Base pay now has to be included even if Scales and Points are included. Validation rule 4540 has been adjusted to take account of this. ‘Advanced Skills Teacher’ and ‘Excellent Teacher’ pay scales have been superseded by 'Leading Practitioner'. Validation rules 4500 and 4505 have been removed to take account of this.

School Workforce Census 2014 Overview DfE changes compared to SWC 2013 New validation queries added. Check that birth dates are not defaulting to 1 January Check that salaries are above the minimum wage and below the local government maximum Check that staff are not recorded as working more than 48 hours per week New validation error added Check that Weeks Per Year is not greater than 53

School Workforce Census 2014 Overview Base Pay and Additional Payments Schools are NOT being forced to move to the new style of pay structures in Personnel 7, so it is going to be difficult for the Census to obtain reliable base pay and additional payment information. We intend to continue to allow school to adjust base pay manually as necessary. Scale Information The DfE still wants this to be included where available and relevant, e.g. Senior leadership

Pupil Premium

Pupil Premium Resources Report Definition: DfE Ever Spring Census Pupil premium faq

Pupil Premium – Calculation Spreadsheet

Pupil Premium Calculation Spreadsheet DfE CSV file for Financial Year 2014/15 Once the DfE has finalised the structure of the CSV file we will upload the Capita presentation and spreadsheet to explain how the information can be used to check and understand the funding.

Pupil Premium Calculation Spreadsheet DfE CSV file for Financial Year 2014/15 We expect the CSV file to include the following information for each pupil where a school based Premium has been identified UPN, Surname, Forename, Gender, DOB, NC Year Deprivation Premium (Y/N), Service Child Premium (Y/N), Adopted from Care Premium (Y/N), Proxy Looked After Child Premium (Y/N) FTE (e.g. 1 or.5) Pupil Premium Financial Year Start Date (01/04/2014) Pupil Premium Financial Year End Date (31/03/2015) Cash Amount (takes account of FTE and Proxy Looked After Child Premium deduction)

Pupil Premium Calculation Spreadsheet Calculation Spreadsheet for Financial Year 2014/15 The spreadsheet will allow the information in the DfE CSV file to be copied to the CSV_Data worksheet

Pupil Premium Calculation Spreadsheet Calculation Spreadsheet for Financial Year 2014/15 A Rates worksheet has been populated

Pupil Premium Calculation Spreadsheet Calculation Spreadsheet for Financial Year 2014/15 A Calculation worksheet has been populated with suitable formulas to calculate from the CSV_Data and Rates

Pupil Premium Calculation Spreadsheet Calculation Spreadsheet for Financial Year 2014/15 A Summary worksheet has been provided to summaries the information from the Calculation worksheet

Content Pupil Premium Maintain

Maintain Pupil Premium for Spring Release Tools | Pupil Premium | Maintain The DfE will be providing Adopted from Care Premium funding to schools for financial year 2014/15 This Premium attracts funding at the Pupil Premium Plus rate The DfE will be providing information about the 2014/15 Premiums in a new CSV format that includes Adopted from Care Premium The DfE is planning to make the first version of the new CSV file for each school available for download in May or June, which means that it May be available before school update to the Summer Release, which will have full support for the new file We have added Adopted from Care to our maintain functionality, so schools can enter the information manually if they wish.

Maintain Pupil Premium for Spring Release Tools | Pupil Premium | Maintain In the Spring Release we will modify the maintain functionality to add Adopted from Care Premium to the list of choices for Premium Type. This will make it possible for schools to enter this information manually where they are unable to wait for the Summer Release of the revised CSV file Import functionality.

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