1. Vicky Piert / Lisa Almond SIMS Team v0.9 Helping to support School Census Autumn Helping to support School Summer Census

2. Contents 1.Summer Return 2.Common Support Calls 3.Data Quality 4.Support/Training Options

3. Spring Upgrade 7.162 Upgrades start w/c 27 th April - same day as your Half Day Engineer visit. Please check all workstations log in before he/she leaves. Please read the release notes – they are useful When did you last - Reports / Import / ? Predefined Reports 7.162

4. School Census Summer 2015 (Spring Release) Upgrades Main changes 1.This is the last of the Censuses in the DfE cycle for 2014/15 2.The changes are limited to those already made for the Autumn and Spring Censuses, except for the introduction of Childcare questions N.B Collects the least pupil characteristics and is therefore most prone to DfE Validation Error 9999 (module is missing) – normally indiciates missing First Language

5. Creating the Return We recommend that all schools carry out dry runs in advance of the Census Day in May.

6. Late change to the Dfe Specification Lots of Child Care questions have been added As this has been added at such a late stage, Capita have restricted the supporting functionality to the Census application Capita are to look to moving this functionality to School Details for a future release.

7. Importing the Fileset 191 – due to be available from Capita The fileset will be emailed to the school address from ‘Agilisys Training Team’ – please don’t delete. Save the attachment to your desktop and Extract the.zip file Tools / Setups / Import Fileset

8. What’s new? New Childcare Questions Before School Childcare (Code B) Is childcare provided on the school premises? If childcare is off site, is it signposted? What time does the service become available? What is the maximum number of children the service can simultaneously provide places for? Who provides the childcare service? Is the service made available to children from other schools? After School Childcare (Code A) Is childcare provided on the school premises? If childcare is off site, is it signposted? What time does the service cease operation? What is the maximum number of children the service can simultaneously provide places for? Who provides the childcare service? Is the service made available to children from other schools?

9. New Childcare Questions Holiday Childcare (Code H) Is childcare provided on the school premises? If childcare is off site, is it signposted? What time does the service become available? What time does the service cease operation? How many weeks of childcare are provided? What is the maximum number of children the service can simultaneously provide places for? Who provides the childcare service? Is the service made available to children from other schools? Under Five Childcare (Code U) Is childcare provided on the school premises? If childcare is off site, is it signposted? What time does the service become available? What time does the service cease operation? How many weeks of childcare are provided? What is the maximum number of children the service can simultaneously provide places for? Who provides the childcare service?

10. Child Care Question Voluntary Schools can leave this table completely empty, but if enough schools do this it might mean less spending in the this area in the future.

11. Capita Approach to the Childcare Questions If schools decide to answer the questions they do so by clicking new and creating records for each type of child care that is relevant. Where information is provided it should be complete and accurate.

12. Hours for Early Years Make use of the filters, and right click on the column heading to ‘Select All’

13. Class Type Each pupil needs to be ticked as Nursery or Other

14. Nursery Pupils Spring / Summer Intake are N1 Nursery pupils require Part Time – Start/End Dates

15. Top-up Funding Do you wish to copy forward from the students from the Spring? YES

16. School Dinner Taken on Reference Day Included for the first time for the Summer Census

17. Attendance Focus / Attendance / Deal with Missing Marks

18. DfE Validation DfE have not yet provided suppliers with XSL file used for validation Leaving the 2015 versions of the files in place causes confusion, so Capita are displaying the following when Create & Validate is run

19. Summary Report DfE have not yet provided suppliers with XSL file used for this report Leaving the 2015 versions of the files in place causes confusion, so we are displaying the following when the Summary Report is run

20. Detail Reports Make use of the detailed reports

21. Detail Reports

22. Copy Census Modified message – to emphasise that panels with “views” on SIMS data are not copied

23. Improving Data Family & Home / Salutation / Siblings

24. Training Options Census Refresher – Half Day @ £71 or onsite @ £110 per hour SIMS Office User Top Tips & Techniques – Half Day @ £71 Tuesday 19 th May A.M. - 9 – 12 p.m. Wednesday 20 th May P.M. - 1 – 4 p.m. Places are still available!! SIMS Reporting Top Tips & Techniques – Half Day @ £71 www.sthelens.org.uk/imstraining

25. Support – Log a call Telephone: 0808 178 6996 http://www.sthelens.org.uk/servicedesk/