Autumn 2016 User Group SIMS Updates Craig Allen Scomis Consultant - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Craig Allen – Scomis Consultant

craig.allen@devon.gov.uk

Autumn 2016 User Group SIMS Updates

Admissions - 1

Updated ATF Version Routines | Admission | Import ATF File

• It is now possible to import version 12.0 or 13.0 ATF files.
• Additional Information Included in an ATF Import

Routines | Admission | Import ATF File

• Country of Birth, Proficiency in English and Nationality information is now

included in an ATF import.

Admissions - 1

Additional Information Included in Applicant Details Focus | Admission | Application

• It is now possible to view and edit the Country of Birth of an applicant.
• Schools in England can now view and edit Proficiency in English

information of an applicant.

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AMPARKA

Enhancements for the SIMS 2016 Autumn Release

• The Assessment Manager and Performance Analysis Resource Kit

(AMPARK) provides a set of resources for use with SIMS Assessment.

• This kit has been updated for the SIMS 2016 Autumn Release.

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Assessment - 1

Customising the Programme of Study Gradeset to Correspond with School Policies

• Focus | Assessment | Programme of Study Management | Managing

Grades

• It is now possible to amend the Programme of Study gradesets so that the

colours, grades and grade descriptions displayed correspond with your school's internal Assessment policies.

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Assessment - 2

Selecting Years 10 and 11 in Programme of Study Tracking Entry Focus | Assessment | Programme of Study Tracking Entry

• It is now possible to select years 10 and 11 from the Selection Parameters

panel, enabling the recording of achievements against user-defined statements for these years and the tracking of a student's assessment results at Key Stage 4.

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Attendance - 1

Additional Persistent Absence Report Reports | Attendance | Whole Group Pupil (or Student) Reports

• The new Persistent Absence Report – Student Threshold report enables

schools to understand persistent absence, so that their figures can be compared with national figures and benchmarks.

• The report provides a list of pupil/students who are persistently absent

(based on a chosen percentage, e.g. 10%), as well as overall figures about the number of pupil/students absent in school, and that figure as a percentage of the school population, in line with current DfE guidance.

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Attendance - 2

• The calculations that the DfE use to analyse persistent absence have

changed and this report reflects those calculations. Persistent absence is now based on a possible number of sessions for each pupil/student, rather than being based on a standardised number of sessions within school.

• This helps to identify pupil/students who are not due in school full-time,

such as dual registered pupil/student. The original report is still available, to enable schools to compare their figures from previous years with national calculations.

• These changes in calculation do not affect school report, which will remain

as it has been

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CTF - 1

Additional CTF Security Message Routines | Data In | CTF | Import CTF Routines | Data Out | CTF | Export CTF

• A security message has been added to the Import and Export Exception

Logs because they may contain confidential pupil/student information. Enhancement to Exam Results CTF Import Routines | Data In | CTF | Import CTF

• When importing exam results via CTF from a school that has not been

recorded in SIMS, an indirect feeder school record is created in Tools | Other Schools.

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CTF – 2

Enhancement to Import of Contact Titles

• Routines | Data In | CTF | Import CTF
• If a contact title does not exist in the Title lookup, the title is no longer

imported in a

• CTF. Instead, an entry is created in the Exception Log.

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FMS - 1

Automatic Posting of Consolidated Journal after a Failed BACS Run

• Where the link between Agora and FMS has been configured, any failed

BACS settlement transactions will now post a consolidated journal

• automatically. FMS will now receive both the settlement and failed

settlement transactions.

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FMS - 2

New Detailed Cost Centre Transaction Report Reports | New Reports | General Ledger | Transactions | Detailed Cost Centre Transaction Report

• A new report has been provided based on the original Cost Centre

Transaction report.

• Additional enhancements have been made, enabling the report to be

focussed on a selected fund and the associated summary information. The summary information accurately reflects the fund choice and the nature of the columns has also been improved.

• The default layout selection has been set to Print Layout, and an

Expand/Collapse Layout is also available, if required.

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Home Page

Viewing and Changing the Current Academic Year Focus | Home Page

• The current academic year is now displayed adjacent to the Quick Search

field on the SIMS Home Page.

• The current academic year can be changed by clicking this label to display

the Select Academic Year dialog. This mirrors the functionality provided via Tools | Academic Management | Set Academic Year.

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Reporting

Additional Checks Included in the OFSTED SCR Report Reports | Run Report

• Prohibition from Teaching and DBS check information are now included in

the OFSTED SCR (Single Central Register) pre-defined report (via Focus | Staff in the reporting dictionary). The values are also presented when running a report that includes the Checks field. Enhancements to the Reporting Dictionary for Applicants Reports | Design Report

• It is now possible to include the Country of Birth field when designing an

applicant report.

• For Maintained schools in England, it is now possible to include the

Proficiency in English field when designing an applicant report.

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School Census Spring 2017 Return

Key Dates for the School Census Spring 2017 Return Routines | Statutory Return | School Census

• Census date is 19/01/2017
• Attendance collected from the start of the Autumn term (e.g. 01/09/2016) to
• 31/12/2016
• Exclusions collected from 28/03/2016 to 31/08/2016
• Free School Meals collected from 07/10/2016 to 19/01/2017
• Learner Support collected from 01/08/2016 to 19/01/2017.

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Data Items New to the Spring Return Focus | Pupil (or Student) | Pupil (or Student) Details

• The following new data items (recorded in the Ethnic/Cultural panel) are

collected in the School Census Spring 2017 Return:

• Nationality
• Country of Birth
• Proficiency in English.
• The UPRN (Unique Property Reference Number), which is displayed

below the address details in the Addresses panel once the address has been selected and validated, is also collected in the Spring return.

• The following data items are collected for the first time for Nursery schools:
• First Language
• Ethnicity.

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Data Items Removed from the Census Focus | School | School Details - Address panel Focus | Pupil (or Student) | Pupil (or Student) Details - Welfare panel

• The following data items are no longer collected for the return:
• School Address
• In Care for exclusions.

School Address Details Routines | Statutory Return | School Census

• The school address is no longer collected for the return and has been

removed from the School Information panel.

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Childcare Information Routines | Statutory Return | School Census Focus | School | School Details

• One record for each of the four childcare types is required by the DfE,

even if that childcare type is not provided. Therefore, the way in which childcare is recorded has been updated.

• The Childcare panel now displays a separate row for each of the four

childcare types.

• The Update Childcare Details dialog now includes the following changes:
• Site has been renamed On Site, with a choice of Yes and No

available for selection from the drop-down list.

• A new field is available for Notes, if required.

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Please note that the information recorded in School Details for School Census Spring 2016 is incompatible with the requirement for School Census Spring 2017, so the details default to blank for all schools. Therefore, all schools must enter the information ready for School Census Spring 2017. This means that even schools completely uninvolved with childcare will need to fill in eight items of information to indicate this position

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Early Years Pupil Premium Eligibility (EYPPE) Routines | Statutory Return | School Census

• The Early Years Pupil Premium Eligibility (EYPPE) has been separated

from Hours at Setting and Funded Hours information, so that the correct cohorts are displayed for each of the data items collected in the return (three and four year olds only are considered for EYYPE, whereas funded hours also includes two year olds).

• The Early Years panel now includes a second grid that deals with Early

Years Pupil Premium Eligibility.

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Adopted from Care Renamed Tools | Statutory Return Tools | Update Post Looked After Arrangements Routines | Statutory Return | School Census

• Adopted from Care is now known as Post Looked After Arrangements; the

user interface has been updated accordingly. Related column headers (e.g. in reports) are displayed as PLAA.

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Admission Appeals Routines | Statutory Return | School Census

• The original Admissions Appeals panel has been split into three separate

panels:

• Infant Admissions Appeals
• Primary Admissions Appeals
• Secondary Admissions Appeals.
• The panels displayed depend on your school phase.

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Classes at Selected Period on Census Day Applicable to Secondary and All-Through schools only Routines | Statutory Return | School Census

• An editable Reference Date field has been added to the Selected Period
• n Census Day panel. This enables schools that have a timetable and are

closed on census day to specify an alternative day and timetable period on which to collect class information for the return.

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Special School Attendance Data Applicable to Special schools only Routines | Statutory Return | School Census

• In the School Census Spring 2017 Return, the DfE requires termly

attendance data to be

• collected for Special schools.
• The collection dates are consistent with other school phases, e.g. from the

start of the

• Autumn term (e.g. 01/09/2016) to 31/12/2016.

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SIMS CORE

Enhancement to Recording In Care Information Focus | Pupil (or Student) | Pupil (or Student) Details

• It is now possible to record in care details with a start date that occurs

before the date of

• admission.

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Teacher App

SIMS Teacher app Compatibility The SIMS Teacher app is guaranteed to support the previous two releases of SIMS, inclusive of any release it is shipped with. The SIMS Teacher app Autumn Release can be used alongside the following versions of SIMS:

• SIMS 2016 Autumn Release (SIMS 7.172)
• SIMS 2016 Summer Release (SIMS 7.170)
• Please note that the Teacher app does not form part of the SIMS 2016

Autumn Release. For information on new features and enhancements, please refer to the What’s New section of the SIMS Teacher app Help Centre, which is available by clicking the Help Centre button in the app.

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iOS Updates

• For schools using SIMS Dinner Money, the SIMS Teacher app for iOS now

includes the ability to record pupil meal choices as well as attendance. The information recorded writes back automatically to the school's SIMS system in real-time. Pupil meal choices can be defined by their attendance mark via Meal Patterns for SIMS Dinner Money or recorded ad-hoc in class, as required.

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SIMS School View

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SIMS Teacher App

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New iOS SIMS Teacher Dinner Money

• What’s in the latest update?
• This latest release of the iOS SIMS Teacher app provides integration with

SIMS Dinner Money to allow the easy recording of school meals through the app.

• Where schools are using SIMS Dinner Money, we’ve made the whole

process of taking the normal morning attendance register and the dinner register even easier by combining them within the SIMS Teacher app.

• This new integration allows school staff using the app to easily swipe

between the Attendance and the Dinner Register to make taking the register and recording meal choices simple, and ensures the kitchen has all the information it needs for lunchtime every day.

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New iOS SIMS Teacher Dinner Money

• The Dinner Money registers are automatically integrated with attendance,

so where pupil meal patterns are setup in SIMS, their selected meal option is automatically shown and selected in the dinner register view.

• Meal types are automatically displayed from the school’s SIMS system

within the app and can be selected for ad-hoc choices or where pupils wish to change their default meal choice.

• Real-time updates to SIMS of your attendance and dinner register choices.
• Available in online and offline mode enabling greater flexibility for you to

view and update the attendance and dinner register wherever you are.

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SIMS Interventions

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What are interventions? How do they affect schools?

• Interventions are anything that schools are doing above and beyond the

national curriculum to help improve outcomes for their students.

• Examples could be to improve grades, attendance, behaviour or general

wellbeing.

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The attainment gap

• Over 1.4 million (21%) children aged 4-15 are eligible for free school meals

in this country. They will start primary school behind their better-off classmates -and this attainment gap will increase throughout their schooling.

• The latest figures show just 37% of disadvantaged children achieved 5

good GCSEs, including English and Maths, compared to 63% of all other

• pupils. Children from poorer backgrounds do worse on average than their

wealthier classmates whichever type of school they are in.

• The attainment gap between rich and poor pupils is particularly stark

compared with other OECD countries.

• Young people with poor educational attainment are much more likely to

end up not in education, employment or training (NEET).(Education Endowment Fund 2016)

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What is SIMS Interventions?

• New module
• Integrated in SIMS7 Core
• Planned to be part of annual entitlement
• Currently in development
• Due in Spring 2017
• Pilot in Autumn 2016

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SIMS Interventions pilot

• Piloting with schools in the Autumn release to ensure robustness
• Available via a licence patch to pre-agreed schools (already signed up)
• Licence patch can be run on Green Abbey and Waters Edge and will be

available to all support units

• Supporting documentation on Interventions will also be made available to

support units via MyAccount

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What will interventions do?

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SIMS Interventions

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