Posted on 11th September 2020
National Teaching Assistants' Day 2020
Nominate your lockdown heroes This year the annual Teaching Assistant of the Year competition is all about celebrating those Teaching Assistants who have been heroes throughout the pandemic. We ha...
Posted on 8th September 2020
It's Pupil Premium time!
With the return to school in full swing it's easy to forget you need to re-enter your Pupil Premium ticks for this year. Don't worry though, you can download the latest Pupil Premium file from Key t...
Posted on 8th September 2020
Updating Pupil Premium information in Arbor
It's that time of year again and we know how much is going on in schools right now. That's why we've put together this handy guide on how to upload your Pupil Premium recipient records from Key to S...
Posted on 27th July 2020
The SIMS Summer Upgrade is now available!
SIMS Version 7.194 has been released, get your upgrade here. The final upgrade of this academic year is within reach. Our team are now booking in and carrying out the SIMS summer upgrades for our s...
Posted on 8th July 2020
Covid Summer Food Fund
Families will face increased pressure on household budgets over the coming months. That is why the DfE are launching a Covid Summer Food Fund which will enable children who are eligible for benefits-...
Posted on 3rd July 2020
MIS Remote End Of Year Services
Let the MIS team help you work smarter not harder! If somebody had said to me this time last year, next year you’ll be working at home indefinitely, schools will only be partially open, GCSEs and ...
Posted on 16th June 2020
Announcing Arbor’s new Understanding Your MAT Report
This guest blog is an update from our partners Arbor Education, which is supported by our accredited MIS team. We are hosting a joint webinar on 8th July - free to attend! Announcing Arbor’s new U...
Posted on 15th June 2020
A helping hand for the daily SAGE form
Temporary attendance codes have been made available to help schools report back to the DfE. Capita have produced Patch 25870 that will temporarily make codes 7,8,9 and Y available within Edit Marks ...
Posted on 3rd June 2020
New Attendance Reports for SIMS from SBS
Reporting on I, X, and Y just got easier with new attendance reports from SBS. Following on from the latest guidance from the DfE, Schools should resume taking the attendance register when more grou...
Posted on 29th May 2020
Calling all ScholarPack schools!
How to record absences using new DfE subcodes from 1st June in ScholarPack. In response to the DfE's guidance on how to record pupil absences when they return to school, ScholarPack have added the f...
Posted on 19th May 2020
FREE SIMS Workshop - Approaches to returning to school for Primary Schools
Due to the overwhelming response from the Free Secondary School Workshop, we have now created a FREE SIMS Workshop for Primary schools! We have created a 60-minute SIMS Workshop aimed at Primary Sc...
Posted on 15th May 2020
FREE SIMS Workshop - Approaches to returning to school for Secondary Schools
The SBS MIS team have been discussing how we can help with the transition of schools re-opening. To help with this, we have created a 60-minute SIMS Workshop aimed at Secondary Schools to help answ...