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Building a Resilient Trust Webinar
March 02 2021
Book your free spot at one of these upcoming webinars in the "Building a Resilient Trust" series from Arbor!

Would you like to take part in the new pilot for attendance data?
January 18 2021
GOV.UK has sent out the following invitation for all state funded schools to take part. (This does not include Nursery Schools.)
Invitation to take part in a pilot to automate the daily collection o...

MIS Remote End Of Year Services
July 03 2020
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 ...

Announcing Arbor’s new Understanding Your MAT Report
June 16 2020
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...

New Attendance Reports for SIMS from SBS
June 03 2020
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...

COVID-19 Guidance for Education Settings
March 05 2020
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Guidance for schools and other educational settings in providing advice about the novel coronavirus, COVID-19
This guidance will assist schools and other educational settings in providing advice for...

The SBS MIS team completes Arbor accreditation
December 05 2019
We’re delighted to announce that we have become an accredited support provider for Arbor MIS
The Arbor accreditation team visited the SBS Milton Keynes office recently to complete our accreditati...

Integrated Curriculum & Financial Planning (ICFP) in SIMS
October 23 2019
An MIS reporting tool for ICFP
In response to the Department for Education demanding greater accountability in school/MAT spending in the current financial climate, there is a need to be able to ver...

End of Key Stage Processes 2019
June 07 2019
The End of Key Stage is an important submission in Capita SIMS at a busy time of the year.
This time last year I was talking about the beautiful sunshine and getting your BBQs out, this year the sun...

Prior Attainment Banding (Advice from ASCL)
May 23 2019
In the absence of official guidance from the DfE around the Prior Attainment Banding information for cohorts with scaled scores, ASCL have provided a suggested course of action.
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