1. Statutory Returns

2. End of Key Stage Returns

3. End of Key Stage Bulletin on the Scomis Home Page : http://news.scomis.org/new2820/http://news.scomis.org/new2820/ 2014 key stage 3 teacher assessment Following publication of the new national curriculum, the assessment arrangements for key stage 3 were disapplied from 2013. This means that in 2014 there will be no requirement for schools to report key stage 3 teacher assessment to the Department for Education (DfE) or to collect and submit data to the Standards and Testing Agency via the NCA tools website. There is also no requirement to report key stage 3 assessment to parents. The DfE sent a communication to schools and local authorities to confirm this change in October 2013.

4. School Census Autumn 2014

5. Autumn School Census Census Date: 2 nd October 2014 Return dates for Local Authorities will be posted on the Scomis Bulletin

6. News and Documentation Autumn School Census Files are loaded with the Summer Upgrade. Fileset 170 is included in the Summer Upgrade Any new filesets and patches will be automatically applied to Hosted Schools and posted on the bulletin for non-hosted schools. Autumn Census bulletin will be available on the Scomis homepage during June.

7. School Census Autumn 2014 Overview School Lunch taken on Census Reference Date Post 16 Planned learning hours Post 16 Planned learning hours previous Post 16 Planned employability, enrichment and pastoral hours Post 16 Planned employability, enrichment and pastoral hours previous Post 16 Full-time employment indicator (on roll pupils only) on Reference Date

8. School Census Autumn 2014 Overview Post 16 QAN Plus Discount Code The DfE expects to receive QWS QAN plus Discount Code combinations in all cases. QWS QAN plus Discount Code combinations can no longer be guaranteed to be in line with AO QAN plus Discount Code combinations. The DfE has provided a document that purports to map between QWS QAN plus Discount Code combinations and the various AO QAN plus Discount Code. We intend to use this document for mapping between the two.

9. School Census Autumn 2014 Overview Alternative Curriculum Schools are now using this in a number of different ways We are looking at allow schools to add alternative curriculum classes to courses, which can then be picked up by Census - I can’t promise this as we have other higher priorities

10. School Census Autumn 2014 - Prep using the Spring Release

11. School Census Autumn 2014 Preparation Using the Spring Release Additional Information panel of Focus | Student | Student Details New table provided with a row for each period of Post-16 Employment and columns for: Start Date, End Date, Hours and Notes

13. School Census Autumn 2014 Preparation Using the Spring Release Basic panel of Tools | Academic Management | Course Manager | Maintain Course Fields introduced allow schools to record Planned Qualification and Planned Non-Qualification hours per year These can be used for calculation in Maintain Programme of Study

16. School Census Autumn 2014 Preparation Using the Spring Release Membership and Results panel of Tools | Academic Management | Course Manager | Maintain Course When a single year is viewed the column will include a tick if this course has been selected as the Core Aim for the student Where a Core Aim is changed the warning message will be received.

18. School Census Autumn 2014 Preparation Using the Spring Release Tools | Academic Management | Course Manager | Course Manager Settings Default Qualification and Non-Qualification Hours can be entered for each level On save these default are added for courses at those levels that do not already have hours specified When a course is created it will inherit default hours as specified for its level.

20. School Census Autumn 2014 Preparation Using the Spring Release Tools | Academic Management | Course Manager | Maintain Programme of Study New functionality that provides a table with rows for each student taught in year 12 and above at any point in the chosen Academic, a column that include all the pupils courses on the relevant Autumn Census date and editable columns for Planned Qualification and Non-Qualification Hours Bulk entry facilities are provided including a tick for controlling overwriting of existing hour values A button is also provided to calculate the hours from entries made in Maintain Course for the courses displayed.

21. School Census Autumn 2014 Preparation Using the Spring Release Tools | Academic Management | Course Manager | Maintain Programme of Study

22. School Census Autumn 2014 Preparation Using the Spring Release Focus | Student | Courses and Course link from Focus | Student | Student Details View of Planned Qualification and Non-Qualification Hours added

24. School Census Autumn 2014 – Prep Using Summer Release

25. School Census Autumn 2014 Preparation Using the Summer Release Tools | Academic Management | Course Manager | Course Manager Settings Planned Hours Threshold can be set so hours below that threshold can be highlighted in Programme of Study

26. School Census Autumn 2014 Preparation Using the Summer Release Tools | Academic Management | Course Manager | Maintain Programme of Study

28. Where can I find more Information? Post 16 Presentations Will cover the changes for the Autumn 2014 Census http://training.scomis.org/post-16-learning-aims-presentation/ Is hands-on Course Manager training needed?

29. School Workforce Census 2014

30. News and Documentation School Workforce Census Date is 6 th November 2014 SWC Census Files will be loaded with the Summer Upgrade SWC Bulletin containing links to documentation and any news / issues will be posted in the Summer holiday ready for the Autumn Term.

31. School Workforce Census 2014 Overview DfE changes compared to SWC 2013 Census Reference Date 6th November 2014 Collection of information for PRUs is now the same as for other schools, as the period when the staff in PRUs were centrally employed is now irrelevant. QTS route now to be included for all staff who, since the previous school workforce census, have taken up their first position since qualifying as a teacher, regardless of when they qualified School Direct and School Direct (salaried) now included in the range of QTS routes.

32. School Workforce Census 2014 Overview DfE changes compared to SWC 2013 Base pay now has to be included even if Scales and Points are included. Validation rule 4540 has been adjusted to take account of this. The DfE expects there to be less instances when Scale and Points are included (only senior leadership?). ‘Advanced Skills Teacher’ and ‘Excellent Teacher’ pay scales have been superseded by 'Leading Practitioner'. Validation rules 4500 and 4505 have been removed to take account of this.

33. School Workforce Census 2014 Overview DfE changes compared to SWC 2013 New validation queries added. Check that birth dates are not defaulting to 1 January Check that salaries are above the minimum wage and below the local government maximum Check that staff are not recorded as working more than 48 hours per week New validation error added Check that Weeks Per Year is not greater than 53

34. School Workforce Census 2014 Overview Base Pay and Additional Payments Schools are NOT being forced to move to the new style of pay structures in Personnel 7, so it is going to be difficult for the Census to obtain reliable base pay and additional payment information. We intend to continue to allow school to adjust base pay manually as necessary. Scale Information The DfE still wants this to be included where available and relevant, e.g. Senior leadership

35. Pupil Premium 2014-2015

36. Pupil Premium 2014-15 Resources Report Definition: DfE Ever 6 @ Spring Census 2014 http://faq.scomis.org/kb11357 Pupil premium faq http://faq.scomis.org/kb9401

37. Pupil Premium 2014-2015 – Calculation Spreadsheet

38. Pupil Premium Calculation Spreadsheet DfE CSV file for Financial Year 2014/15 Once the DfE has finalised the structure of the CSV file we will upload the Capita presentation and spreadsheet to explain how the information can be used to check and understand the funding.

39. Pupil Premium Calculation Spreadsheet DfE CSV file for Financial Year 2014/15 We expect the CSV file to include the following information for each pupil where a school based Premium has been identified UPN, Surname, Forename, Gender, DOB, NC Year Deprivation Premium (Y/N), Service Child Premium (Y/N), Adopted from Care Premium (Y/N), Proxy Looked After Child Premium (Y/N) FTE (e.g. 1 or.5) Pupil Premium Financial Year Start Date (01/04/2014) Pupil Premium Financial Year End Date (31/03/2015) Cash Amount (takes account of FTE and Proxy Looked After Child Premium deduction)

40. Pupil Premium Calculation Spreadsheet Calculation Spreadsheet for Financial Year 2014/15 The spreadsheet will allow the information in the DfE CSV file to be copied to the CSV_Data worksheet

42. Pupil Premium Calculation Spreadsheet Calculation Spreadsheet for Financial Year 2014/15 A Rates worksheet has been populated

44. Pupil Premium Calculation Spreadsheet Calculation Spreadsheet for Financial Year 2014/15 A Calculation worksheet has been populated with suitable formulas to calculate from the CSV_Data and Rates

46. Pupil Premium Calculation Spreadsheet Calculation Spreadsheet for Financial Year 2014/15 A Summary worksheet has been provided to summaries the information from the Calculation worksheet

48. Content Pupil Premium 2014-2015 - Maintain

49. Maintain Pupil Premium for Spring Release Tools | Pupil Premium | Maintain The DfE will be providing Adopted from Care Premium funding to schools for financial year 2014/15 This Premium attracts funding at the Pupil Premium Plus rate The DfE will be providing information about the 2014/15 Premiums in a new CSV format that includes Adopted from Care Premium The DfE is planning to make the first version of the new CSV file for each school available for download in May or June, which means that it May be available before school update to the Summer Release, which will have full support for the new file We have added Adopted from Care to our maintain functionality, so schools can enter the information manually if they wish.

50. Maintain Pupil Premium for Spring Release Tools | Pupil Premium | Maintain In the Spring Release we will modify the maintain functionality to add Adopted from Care Premium to the list of choices for Premium Type. This will make it possible for schools to enter this information manually where they are unable to wait for the Summer Release of the revised CSV file Import functionality.

52. Content Pupil Premium 2014-2015 – Import DfE File

53. Import Pupil Premium for the Summer Release Tools | Pupil Premium | Import The DfE will be providing Adopted from Care Premium funding to schools for financial year 2014/15 This Premium attracts funding at the Pupil Premium Plus rate The DfE will be providing information about the 2014/15 Premiums in a new CSV format that includes Adopted from Care Premium.

54. Import Pupil Premium for the Summer Release Tools | Pupil Premium | Import The file also includes a column for LAC Premium, but we will ignore this as it the information is very likely to be out of date and incomplete The DfE is planning to make the new CSV file for each school available for download in May or June, which means that it may be available before customers have moved to the Summer Release where the import functionality will be available; hence the extension of Maintain in the Spring Release 2015

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