
Posted on 16th April 2019
SIMS Maintaining the Timetable Training Course
SIMS Maintaining the Timetable Training Course coming this month! Our upcoming SIMS Maintaining the Timetable Training Course is a rewarding course for all staff responsible for the day-to-day main...

Posted on 15th April 2019
CFR Framework Changes
There has been two changes to the CFR Framework for the financial year 2019/20. The Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) framework provides a standard template for all maintained schools to collec...

Posted on 11th April 2019
DfE to fund Teacher Pension increase
The government has announced that the Teacher Pension employer contributions increase will be funded. One item that has been concerning schools is whether the approaching employers teacher pension i...

Posted on 9th April 2019
NJC Support Scales Migration April '19
SBS Online are offering two migration scripts for users to implement the new NJC Support Scales structure. The details of these migrations and how they would affect your budget have been emailed to...

Posted on 5th April 2019
Update: CTF Issue with SIMS Spring Release (7.186)
Further information from Capita on the CTF Issue What’s the Issue? What’s the Fix? Capita have now given us further information on the issue with the SIMS Spring Release (7.186). Please see bel...

Posted on 4th April 2019
CTF issue with SIMS Spring Release (7.186)
Current precautionary advice: Do not to use the CTF mechanism to share pupil and contact details with other schools until further notice Capita have informed us that there could be a CTF issue in th...

Posted on 25th March 2019
Online Free School Meals
Easy free school meal administration. In this age of Universal Infant Free School Meals, and importance of the Pupil Premium funding, it’s important that all eligible pupils are signed up. With ...

Posted on 21st March 2019
SIMS Training Courses from SBS in April
What's coming up in April? Take a look at April's SIMS Training Courses to see if anything catches your eye! Below are our upcoming SIMS Training Courses and dates: 24th April 2019 SIMS System Man...

Posted on 19th March 2019
NEW Data Management Forum for Secondary Schools
NEW Data Management Forum for Secondary Schools Did you know about our Data Management Forums? These sessions are a great way of networking and being able to speak to other schools to see how they de...

Posted on 18th March 2019
Your SIMS Spring 2019 Release
Your SIMS Spring 2019 release is going to be available from Friday 22nd March Along with the usual fixes and making the Summer Census available there have been a few upgrades to the system. See belo...

Posted on 11th March 2019
New NJC Pay Scales
How to update the new NJC Pay Scales In April 2019 the NJC Pay Scales are changing and will need to be updated in your SIMS system. As this is something we only do once or twice a year we thought i...

Posted on 7th March 2019
April 2019 Support Staff Pay Scales update
This blog demonstrates how SBS Online users can apply the April 2019 Support Staff Pay Scales migration to their Custom Scales. With the complete restructure of Support Scales that’s taking place...