1. Changes to SEN & Homepage and Student Teacher View Enhancements
Lucy Crawford and Geoff Perry

2. 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

3. Changes to SEN

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. SEN – Planned functional changes
Pre-defined report on SEN Provisions
Learning strategies field – SEN Quicknote

10. Class SEN Pop – up to show the needs of a class
Mock-up screen to show idea

11. 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

12. 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

13. Homepage and Student Teacher View

14. 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

15. 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.

16. 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

17. Attendance Widgets
Missing marks are now included on the Homepage widgets, giving you a quick overview of which cohorts have missing marks.