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Craig Allen, Education and Product Specialist

SIMS UPDATE

Autumn 2017

The Sims and FMS Autumn 2017 Upgrade contains a

number of enhancements and fixes. It upgrades Sims

to 7.178 and FMS to 6.178

Scomis Upgrade Bulletin

http://faq.scomis.org/kb19331/




SIMS Update

Admissions

• New Features

• Updated ATF Version Number

• AppLicabLe to Maintained schooLs in EngLand onLy

• Routines I Admission I Import ATF File

• It is now possible to import version 13.0 or 14.0 ATF files onLy.

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Assessment

• The EYFS Profile National Report 2017 individual report template

has been updated in line with DfE requirements (via Tools I

Performance I Assessment I Wizard Manager)

• An error no longer occurs when searching for a grade set in the

Assessment Mapping Tool (via Tools I Performance I Assessment I

Assessment MappingTool)

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CTF

• New Features

• Additional Import Location Option for Guest Pupil/Students

• Routines | Data In | CTF | Import CTF

• The Guest option has been added to the Place new pupils in drop-

down list so that pupils can be imported as guests without being

allocated admission numbers or being registered for attendance. As

it is no longer required as a result, the Edit Current Imported

Students panel is no longer displayed after import.

• Update to English and Welsh Ethnicity Mappings

• Applicable to schools in England only

• The ethnicity codes that can and cannot be transferred in a CTF

between schools in

• England and Wales have been updated in line with Welsh

Government legislation.

• Fixes

• This release includes a fix in the following area:

• For EOTAS schools in Northern Ireland, an exam candidate's UCI

number is now

• imported via CTF. The UCI number can now be exported via CTF

(via Routines |

• Data In | CTF | Import CTF and Routines | Data Out | CTF | Export

CTF).

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• Enhancement to the CML File


• Routines | Data Out | CTF | Export CTF

• Grounds for Removal has been added to the CME – Leavers CTF

type. A pupil must

• have Grounds for Removal for them to be exported in a CME –

Leavers file.

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Update to English and Welsh Ethnicity

Mappings


• The ethnicity codes that can and cannot be transferred in a CTF

between schools in England and Wales have been updated in line

with Welsh Government legislation.

• Fixes

• This release includes a fix in the following area:

• For EOTAS schools in Northern Ireland, an exam candidate's UCI

number is now imported via CTF. The UCI number can now be

exported via CTF (via Routines |Data In | CTF | Import CTF and

Routines | Data Out | CTF | Export CTF).

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Discover

This release includes fixes in the following areas:

• The Percentage Session Attendance by Half-Term graph now

correctly calculates data from the start of term until yesterday,

instead of from the start of term until the end of term.

• In registration group Venn diagrams, the Student count and

percentage figures are now displayed correctly.

• The Number of Applications by Feeder School pre-admission graph

has been enhanced so that it can now report on a larger number of

feeder schools.

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Discover

• The Attendance Summary widget now populates with the correct

data when just a single Discover group is selected.

• Columns in stacked bar graphs are now displayed in the correct

order when reimported

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Home Page

• New Features

• Additional Widget for MyConcern Users

• Focus | Home Page

• For users of MyConcern, it is now possible to add the MyConcern

widget to the SIMS Home Page via the Configure button.

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Reporting

Addition of the Person Data Output Report

• Routines | Data Out | Person Data Output

• Users with the Data Protection permission can now generate a

Person Data Output report, which provides an output of specified

data held within SIMS 7 of a specified pupil.

• This can be used in conjunction with other reports and outputs to

assist the user to complete any SARs (Subject Access Requests).

• Admission Register (Roll Book) CME Ver(sion) Report


• Reports | Run Report - Focus | Student

• The Admission Register (Roll Book) CME Ver(sion) report has been

provided. This report

• relates to Children Missing in Education and includes Grounds for

Removal

• information.

• Additions to the Reporting Dictionary


• Reports | Design Report - Student | School

• It is now possible to include the Grounds for Removal field when

designing a report.

• Reporting for MyConcern

• Reports | Design Report - Student | CESThirdPartyFields

• For users of MyConcern, it is now possible to include MyConcern

information in a report.

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Reports | Run Report - Focus | Student

• The Admission Register (Roll Book) CME Ver(sion) report has been

provided. This report relates to Children Missing in Education and

includes Grounds for Removal information.

Additions to the Reporting Dictionary

• Reports | Design Report - Student | School

• It is now possible to include the Grounds for Removal field when

designing a report.

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School Census Spring 2018 Return

School Census Spring 2018 Key Dates

Routines | Statutory Return | School Census

Census date 18/01/2018

Attendance collected from the start of the 2017 Autumn term to 31/12/2017

Exclusions collected from 17/04/2017 (Easter Monday) to 31/08/2017

Free School Meal Eligibility collected from 06/10/2017 to 18/01/2018

Learner Support collected from 01/08/2017 to 18/01/2018.

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Earliest Date of Admission


Focus | School | School Details

The Date Number Changed screen label (associated with the previous

establishment number) has been changed to Earliest DOA (date of

admission) in the following panels:

• School Information panel (School Census)

• Establishment panel (School Details).

This date represents the date of admission of pupils into a sponsor-led

Academy that has a new DfE Establishment Number.

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Early Years Pupil Premium Eligibility Report

Applicable to schools with Early Years children only


• The new EYPPE detail report enables schools to check the early

years pupil premium eligibility information being collected in the

return. The report is available from the Detail Report drop-down list.

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Two Year Old Basis for Funding

Applicable to schools with Early Years children only


• The following changes have been made to enable schools to record the

basis for funding for two year old pupils:

2 Year Old Basis for Funding grid

• A new grid (entitled 2 Year Old Basis for Funding) is available in the

Early Years panel to enable schools to enter the basis for funding for

each pupil with a date of birth from 01/01/2015 to 31/12/2015.

2 Year Old Basis for Funding report

• This new report enables schools to check the two year old basis for

funding information being collected in the return. The report is available

from the Detail Report drop-down list.

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SIMS Core

Renaming of the Date Number Changed Field


• Focus | School | School Details

• The Date Number Changed field adjacent to the Previous Estab

Number field has been renamed Earliest DOA (Date of Admission).

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Addition of the Grounds

for Removal Field

Focus | Pupil | Pupil Details

• Routines | Pupil | Leavers

• The Grounds for Removal drop-down list has been added to the

School History panel on the Pupil Details page and the Leaving

Information panel on the Leavers page. Schools are required to

record this information for all pupils on leaving the school.

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Addition of Grounds for Removal

Lookups

• Health

• Unauthorised Absence of 20

Days or more

• Detained

• Deceased

• Not of compulsory school age

• Left School

• Permanent Exclusion

• Completed Nursery Education

• Financial

• Grounds for Removal

• Change in School Attendance

Order

• Registered at another school

• Was dual registered, going to

single registration at other

school

• Education other than at school

• Distance

• Failure to attend within 10 days

after an exception leave of

absence

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Tools | Lookups | Maintain

The following lookups have been added:

Addition of the Destination Institution Field

to the Leavers Routine

Routines | Pupil | Leavers

• The Destination Institution field has been added to the Leaving

Information panel on the Leavers page.

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SIMS and GDPR

SIMS Primary

What is SIMS Primary?

• Next generation of SIMS

• Cloud-based

• New role-based interface

• Focussed on delivering information to all staff

• Stream-lining of processes

• Live in 5 schools

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Scomis and SIMS Primary

• Working with Capita as one of a handful of LSUs across the country

• In partnership with a few schools looking at pre-pilot phase, running

tests on schools data while still using SIMS 7 as the main MIS

• Evaluation Phase, checking functionality and ease of access

• Feedback to Capita on all aspects of the new software

• If pre-pilot phase is successful and the schools are happy, we will

move schools to the new platform

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Scomis and SIMS Primary

• We need to fully understand the implications of moving to the new

software

• We need to identify the most efficient way of moving schools to the

new platform with least impact on critical business processes

• We will need to identify key staff at each school and how to manage

each school though the process

• Implications of Training and On-site support

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Attendance

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Conduct Dashboard

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Assessment Programmes of Study

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Exams

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Senior Leadership

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Class Teacher

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SIMS Finance

• SIMS Finance provides multi-academy trusts (MATs)with a complete

picture of their finances.

• Clear dashboards show a consolidated financial view across an

academy group, while powerful reports enable you to drill down and

easily see where and how much is being spent in each academy,

helping you to spot opportunities to benefit from economies of scale.

• SIMS Finance has been designed with the needs of educational

users in mind to help improve efficiency and save time in the trust’s

finance office.

“SIMS Finance is based upon the successful Capita Integra solution

that is in use by hundreds of organisations, with thousands of users with

millions of transactions. It has a proven track record having been used

for many years in public sector organisations throughout the UK and

Ireland”.

“Our aim is that SIMS Finance meets the needs of educational

establishments in the UK, with a specific focus upon Multi-Academy

Trusts who are looking for effective and cost efficient solutions”.

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SIMS Finance?

• Streamline financial operations across your group with fully

authorised process work flows.

• Improve financial transparency across your trust.

• It’s cloud based, meaning you can access it at any time and you

don’t have to manage backups or upgrades.

• Fully encrypted, secure and GDPR compliant.

• It integrates with SIMS.

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MAT not using FMS6

• “Easy enough to use, like the facility to copy old orders.”

• “Enabling staff to add Orders — I think enabling budgets holders to

raise their own orders is brilliant”

• “SIMS Finance should allow us to reduce the cost of raising orders

that is £25,000 currently p.a.”

Interim Business Director of a MAT

• “SIMS Finance would be able to support us should the Governors

decide to convert the Trust into a MAT and join with other schools.”

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Analyse your consolidated list of suppliers by spend, number of

orders or invoices and value of orders.

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