SIMS Assessment & Reporting Suite for Academies

The SIMS Assessment & Reporting Suite is the focal point for all of your academy's assessment data, providing you with a highly structured and manageable system for assessing and tracking pupil progress and reporting to parents.

An efficient way to record assessment data and make it work for you in target setting, tracking individual progress, reviewing group performance and reporting back to parents and senior managers. The SIMS Assessment & Reporting Suite identifies vital links between attainment and information held across SIMS such as attendance, behaviour, gender, ethnic group and month of birth, analyses trends and focuses on the progress of every child.

Academies and schools using the reporting element of the suite, SIMS Profiles for pupil report writing  claim a saving of 30 minutes per pupil report - that’s 900 minutes (15 hours) for a class of 30 pupils.

Key benefits

Track your pupils’ progress
Record predicted attainment, individual targets and termly assessments. ‘Traffic light’ colour coding reveals whether pupils are making good progress, falling behind or ‘stuck’, whilst pupil tracking grids display progress against school or national targets

Customise tracking to suit your academy
Record any type of assessment where the result can be expressed in terms of a mark, grade, age or comment. Customise Marksheets to meet your academy’s assessment policy (eg six-termly tracking) or to alter the predicted progress line

Analyse performance by subject, group or time
National progression lines are provided to enable comparisons between your academy and national averages, at whole academy, class or individual pupil level

Take data analysis to a new level
As a new upgrade to the Suite, SIMS Discover makes the job of interpreting the pupil information in SIMS even simpler as it presents the data in a highly visual way using Venn diagrams, bar charts and pie charts, making it far easier to spot where trends and connections exist

Create full end of year pupil reports for parents
Automatically compile professional interim pupil reports based upon recorded grades in Microsoft Word. Reports can then be stored in the pupil record for a complete and accessible history

Get a complete picture of how pupils progress over time
SIMS maintains a complete historical record of all assessments recorded over each pupil’s life in the academy.

Manage the examination process
Manage external and internal exams, including seating, results distribution and analysis

Enable flexible working
Teachers can enter the grades and comments over the internet at home via SIMS Learning Gateway

To help pupils reach their full potential, you need to ensure every pupil knows how they are doing, what they need to do to improve and how they are going to get there. With the SIMS Assessment & Reporting Suite, you’ll save valuable time monitoring performance whilst gaining valuable interaction time with your pupils.

"SIMS helps us narrow the gap."
- Kiran Bakhshi, Information Manager, The Crest Boys' Academy, London