Posted on 20th April 2018
SIMS Webinars from SBS
Learn SIMS from the convenience of your school or home. If you’ve wanted to attend one of our SIMS courses before but haven’t been able to get to our training venues then our bitesize SIMS Webi...
Posted on 18th April 2018
Become an Assessment Manager Expert
Exclusive Discount on David Pott’s Remote Assessment Training David Pott, whose blog you might have seen on this very page (Click here to view David's GuestBlog) has produced a series of webinars ...
Posted on 20th March 2018
SIMS Spring Upgrade 2018 - 7.180
The snows are gone and Spring is on its way, and to mark its passage as always, it’s not Easter, it’s the new SIMS Spring Upgrade! As usual, we are starting to contact our schools to get this bo...
Posted on 19th March 2018
Schools receiving generic terrorism hoax email
Please be advised that schools have received emails today claiming that there is a student onsite with a bomb and are demanding $5,000. We have contacted the anti-terrorism unit and they are treatin...
Posted on 7th March 2018
Early Years Pupil Premium Rates
Your Pupil Premium Rates for 2018/19 Not to be left out after last weeks blog on Pupil Premium, here are the rates and information on the Early Years Pupil Premium for 2018/19. All early years prov...
Posted on 2nd March 2018
Your new Pupil Premium rates for 2018/19
Making sure you know how much you're getting for each PP Pupil/Student Now that you've settled down, back from your half term and enjoying some snow (or not) it might be time to start looking at you...
Posted on 26th February 2018
SIMS Parent Lite App
The FREE SIMS tool to help you with GDPR and data management. Clearly we are living in the world of GDPR now and Capita have released a free app to further help you to ensure the integrity of your da...
Posted on 21st February 2018
National Insurance Rates for 2018-19 in SIMS Personnel
Another year, another set of NI figures for you to enter into SIMS Personnel Exciting news as always in the SIMS world, with the new NI figures being available (This year with fewer bands). Unlike ...
Posted on 15th February 2018
GuestBlog: Assessment Manager - Top Tips for Senior Leaders
We are delighted to present guest author David Pott who has been working with schools and local authorities since 1987 and is well known for his expertise in SIMS Assessment Manager. David is...
Posted on 8th February 2018
GDPR - Don't panic!
With a raft of companies and people throwing scare tactics at you about the upcoming GDPR, SIMS is now able to help you take some of the worry away. In relation to SIMS there are 4 key areas that ar...
Posted on 22nd January 2018
Catholic Education Services (CES) Census 2018
For some of you the Census is now done, but for others you still have another one to complete, the CES Census. Please see below a link to a Completing the Census guide, along with a couple of bits ta...
Posted on 12th January 2018
SIMS Spring Census guidance
The SIMS Spring Census will be on Thursday 18th January 2018 Happy New Year from us at SBS and apologies for being the bearer of bad news, it’s the Spring School Census next week and to get you go...