Posted on 14th February 2017
2017/2018 National Insurance Rates for SIMS
The new 2017/2018 National Insurance table rates will need to be added to SIMS Personnel. The following table displays the new rates: Band Upper Monthly Earnings Limit Lower Monthly Earnings Limi...
Posted on 7th February 2017
Statutory Analysis Reports for KS1 and KS2
Capita have recently updated their KS1 and KS2 analysis tools to incorporate the revised measures for 2015/16. These can be downloaded from the links further down the page (refer to the steps shown o...
Posted on 7th February 2017
SIMS Exams - New Gradesets - patch 22729
The Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) have released new Gradesets to match new Basedata. The following gradesets have been introduced: Gradesets 48 to 57, relating to variations of GCSEs Gr...
Posted on 27th January 2017
Progress 8 and Attainment 8
Progress 8 and Attainment 8 are hot topics right now. Last Thursday, when most schools and academies were running their Census, the DfE published the national performance tables for Key Stages 4 and ...
Posted on 20th January 2017
Spring Census 2017 - COLLECT issue resolved
Further to our blog post yesterday afternoon we can confirm that the DfE have fixed the issue affecting Census file uploads to COLLECT. Please contact us if you require any assistance with your Sp...
Posted on 19th January 2017
Spring Census 2017 - Issues with COLLECT upload
This post is for all schools and academies who upload their Census files straight to COLLECT. We have been made aware of an issue whereby some authorised files are not uploading and COLLECT is genera...
Posted on 17th January 2017
CES (Catholic Education Service) Census 2017
The CES Census 2017 is this Thursday (19th January) - the same date as the Spring Census for the DfE. The Catholic Education Service has many resources to support schools with this return includi...
Posted on 12th January 2017
Tidy up time
Although Census time allows schools to update a lot of information held in SIMS, the same old data issues often persist (contacts not showing correctly, no little houses, names in upper and lower ca...
Posted on 3rd January 2017
Spring Census - Fileset 502
A new Fileset (502) has been made available by Capita for the Spring Census. It contains updates to both the summary report and validation files. Downloading and Applying a Fileset Please check tha...
Posted on 15th December 2016
Consolidated Exams patch available
Capita have now released a consolidated exams patch (22509) which adds the newly identified discount codes TA1, TA2 and TA3 as well as correcting JCQ Gradeset 43 and fixing basedata issues previous...
Posted on 9th December 2016
Spring 2017 Census
Our step by step Census documentation is available now so that you can get ahead and start preparing for Spring Census day which is on Thursday 19th January. Preparing for the Spring Census ...
Posted on 8th December 2016
Reduce Paper Records and Improve Efficiency
Back in the Summer, we published a blog about the new Direct Scan Solution from Brother. Please note this product is currently unavailable from our Procurement service and this blog is now for refer...