If you don’t feel like adding these in manually, there is a patch available that will update these for you automatically.
As usual, we’ll be applying this patch to all our schools where we apply your upgrade. This will be applied at the same time as your spring update.
For those of you that we don’t support, the patch number to ask for is Patch 25705.
If you need any assistance with the National Insurance rates 2020-2021 please feel free to call us on 0345 222 1551 • Opt 3 or email MISservicedesk@schoolbusinessservices.co.uk
Further support for your team from SBS – Remote School Back Office
As an alternative to onsite support, we are adept in providing support for our schools in the following methods:
Login to our self-service suite from your device
Working from home?
Need access to your school or MAT budget?
Planning for the future?
Families who receive Free School Meals have been targeted by a coronavirus email scam asking them to pass over their bank details. The government has issued a warning urging people not to fall for it.
Using SIMS ID Lite to aid learning while school sites are closed.
SIMS ID Lite is available to SIMS customers at no extra charge. In addition to providing single sign-in for applications such as SIMS Parent and Options it also links to the virtual classroom functionality from Microsoft Office 365 and Google Classroom.
See our latest MIS blog for details. This blog also contains information for SIMS Customer Success Resources.
SBS are working in partnership with Weduc, the next generation in smart communications, who are helping to support schools and families by offering their Weduc Essentials App for FREE!
Due to the School Closures that are coming into force from today, Friday 20th March, we have combined a list of websites that are offering free resources to parents and children to use from home.
Are you preparing for your staff and students to work from home?
In these unprecedented times we are all faced with new challenges. In light of the Coronavirus, schools are faced with a very complicated and challenging situation; to keep staff and students safe whilst continuing to provide teaching and learning.
With this in mind, I want to make you aware of two platforms which provide continuity for both teaching and admin operations to schools and are free for education.
