1. Welcome to the SIMS Autumn Update Seminar December 2013

2. Domestics  Fire  Facilities  Finish Time

3. Introductions  Ian Mills  John Howarth  Neil Gregory  Dave Cattlin  Annie Burns  Val Tatham  Helen Browning

4. SIMS Support Arrangements – Ian Mills  SLA offering  Arrangements for accessing support desk services  Escalation processes  Arrangements for accessing training  Arrangements for accessing consultancy  Arrangements for the support of technical aspects of SIMS  Management of SIMS releases

5. Purpose of the session  To ensure that schools have visibility on changes to SIMS to be introduced with the Autumn software update  These powerpoints will be made available following this session  You are asked to share this information with colleagues in school as appropriate

6. SIMS Autumn Update  Released by Capita Friday 29 th November

7. SIMS Autumn Update – John Howarth  Home Page & Student Teacher View Home Page & Student Teacher View  Changes to display of Assessment, Attendance, Timeline information  Enhancements to the SIMS Home Page  Pupil Premium Import Pupil Premium Import

8. SIMS Autumn Update – John Howarth  Statutory Statutory  CTF v 13 compatibility  Spring Census 2014  Arrangements for leave of absence  Arrangements for Adopted from Care Records  Top up Funding  Selected Period Changes

9. SIMS Autumn Update – John Howarth  Technical Matters Technical Matters  Technical Roadmap Update

10. SIMS Autumn Update – Neil Gregory  T6 and Course Manager T6 and Course Manager  CNAT Levels  Performance Improvements  Linking Multiple Schemes  Shared Options Implementation  NCC Reporting  Cover Cover  Reporting Improvements

11. SIMS Autumn Update – Dave Cattlin  Discover Discover  Half-Termly Graph Definitions  Student Mobility Analyses  Sharing Graphs within the school  Quick Search Functionality  Copying Graphs out to other applications  Discover Administration Utility  Bulk Creation of Assessment Graphs  Changes to Legends on Assessment Graphs

12. SIMS Autumn Update – Dave Cattlin  Performance Suite Performance Suite  Improvements to displays and reporting  Personnel Personnel  Staff Performance Management

13. SIMS Roadmap  Discover Discover  Post 16 Exam Graphs Post 16 Exam Graphs  Further Pupil Graphs including, Bullying by type and Behaviour by Intervention Further Pupil Graphs including, Bullying by type and Behaviour by Intervention  Further Staff Graphs including Lesson Observations Further Staff Graphs including Lesson Observations  FMS FMS  Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) 2013/2014 Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) 2013/2014  Inland Revenue Section 16 Report 2013/2014 Inland Revenue Section 16 Report 2013/2014  National Insurance calculations 2014/2015 National Insurance calculations 2014/2015  Support for the new teacher pay arrangements Support for the new teacher pay arrangements

14. SIMS Roadmap  Personnel  Enhancements to support changes for the new teacher pay arrangements for maintained schools  SEN  Statutory Returns  School Census Summer 2014

15. Any Questions….. Any Questions?