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Posted on 11th July 2016
Safer Recruitment
Safer Recruitment Training for Schools SBS provides expert guidance to ensure you are confident and compliant in your recruitment Paragraph 43 of the DfE statutory safeguarding guidance, Keeping Chi...
Posted on 11th July 2016
Summer Update - Improved Budget Monitoring
Our latest release includes a new budget monitoring report, several more improvements to SBS Online and some minor bug fixes. Budget Profile report This new report works in conjunction with your bud...
Posted on 7th July 2016
Latest products & services from SBS ICT
At SBS we are continually researching new technologies and developing our expertise to provide solutions for our schools' challenges. Below are the new products and services we've launched for the su...
Posted on 6th July 2016
SIMS Summer release is available now
The SIMS Summer Release is now available and includes several enhancements and new areas of functionality. We are currently contacting schools to book a time to carry out the upgrade remotely. Her...
Posted on 1st July 2016
Tempus Fugit
Time Flies! Its July already and time to dust off the trophies for sports day, get out the tombolas for the summer fete and say good bye to staff leaving at the end of term. There will be transition...
Posted on 30th June 2016
How to add a School Closure in SIMS
If your school is fully or partially closed due to the proposed teacher strike on Tuesday 5th July 2016, the Y code should be used. Code Y: Unable to Attend due to Exceptional Circumstances If a...
Posted on 28th June 2016
Helping us to help you
As you might imagine, we have a very busy Service Desk here at SBS, and this is particularly true at peak times of year such as now. When you call us, it is essential that we take down some key item...
Posted on 23rd June 2016
New SIMS Data Collection Sheet
Following our recent blog post about the new Autumn Census data items we have created a new Data Collection Sheet for import into SIMS which includes the new fields for Pupil Nationality and Country...
Posted on 22nd June 2016
SIMS Assessment - KS1 use of 'N' grade in scaled scores
Earlier this month, the DfE released the tables to convert Key Stage 1 raw scores into scaled scores. The tables showed that raw scores of 0, 1 or 2 convert to a scaled score of 'N'. However, this ...
Posted on 17th June 2016
New data items required for the Autumn Census
The DfE have introduced 3 new data items to be collected in the Autumn 2016 Census, they are: 1. Pupil Nationality To be recorded for: all pupils on roll and pupils that have left since the start of...
Posted on 16th June 2016
SIMS and FMS End of Year Procedures
As the summer term rolls on, schools will already be preparing for their new intake in September, the changes to classes next year and also the end of term leavers. When it comes to the procedures...
Posted on 15th June 2016
Turnbull Report - A left field view on risk management for schools
Euro 2016 has started. Up and down the land adults and school children will be making assessments of the chances of their country in winning (at least one match), and thinking about mitigating the ri...