Posted on 8th January 2019
SIMS Spring Census guidance 2019
The SIMS Spring Census will be on Thursday 17th January 2019 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...
Posted on 8th January 2019
Catholic Education Service (CES) Census 2019
For some of you there are two Census’s to complete, the CES Census is the extra one. Please see below a link to a Completing the Census guide, along with a couple of bits taken from it to get you o...
Posted on 4th December 2018
School census 2018 to 2019
The DfE has decided that there is no longer a requirement to collect three items in future census’s and these are Proficiency in English, Pupil Country of Birth and Pupil Nationality. Therefore un...
Posted on 29th October 2018
Autumn School Census 2018
We are sharing the following information that has been released from the DfE. Update No 2 from the DfE Purpose The purpose of this note is to provide school census contacts with an update on th...
Posted on 16th October 2018
School Workforce Census Autumn 2018
With November rapidly approaching and the half term break just around the corner it’s time to start looking forward to the School Workforce Census Autumn 2018. Here you are going to find the how to...
Posted on 10th October 2018
Next Data Managers Forum - 7/11/18 - limited places available
Data Managers Forum - Primary and Secondary School sessions Did you know about our termly Data Managers Forums? These sessions are a great way of networking and being able to speak to other schools t...
Posted on 1st October 2018
Census Consolidated Patch v2
There is now a Census Consolidated Patch v2 for Summer Release 2018 (patch 24330) is necessary to correct the issue in the SIMS application for schools receiving error 1992 when running School Census...
Posted on 21st September 2018
SIMS Autumn Census guidance 2018
The SIMS Autumn Census will be on Thursday 4th October 2018 With October coming around fast it’s time again for that joyous thing that is the October School Census. To help with carrying it out we
Posted on 21st September 2018
Your updated Pupil Premium 2018/19
As many of you are no doubt aware, your Pupil Premium ‘ticks’ will not have carried over from last year and so will need to be re-entered. Thankfully to make our lives a little easier, you can ...
Posted on 14th August 2018
Guest blog: A new dawn for schools?
A new dawn for schools? Guest post from Julie Cordiner, School Financial Success Changes in the air Listening to the experiences, views and concerns of headteachers, SBLs, governors and other spea...
Posted on 13th August 2018
Urgent and Important – Exams PI Report Problem
Exams PI Report Problem It has been found that the fileset 1001 causes a problem for one of the reports in the Exams PI and it has therefore been withdrawn. The existence of this fileset may be unkno...
Posted on 25th July 2018
News round-up from the SBS Capita-accredited SIMS team
SBS MIS support team achieves Capita SIMS accreditation for the third time! Our accreditation visit, led by Capita's Professional Services team, took place during the SBS Company Developmen...