SIMS Assessment & Reporting Suite for Local Authorities

The SIMS Assessment & Reporting Suite is the focal point for school assessment data, providing schools with a highly structured and manageable system for assessing and tracking pupil progress.

An efficient way to record assessment data and make it work for your schools in target setting, tracking individual progress, reviewing group performance and reporting back to parents, senior managers and local authorities. The SIMS Assessment & Reporting Suite identifies vital links between attainment, attendance and behaviour, analyse trends, and focuses on the progress of every child. 

Schools using the suite tell us that using SIMS Profiles for pupil report writing can save 30 minutes per pupil report - that’s 900 minutes per class of 30 pupils and 1,200 hours in a school of 80 staff working an eight hour day.

Key benefits

Any type of assessment where the result can be expressed in terms of a mark, grade, age or comment can be recorded. Customise marksheets to meet school assessment policies (eg six-termly tracking) or to alter the predicted progress line.

• Track pupil progress
  Predicted attainment, individual targets and termly assessments can be recorded. ‘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 the school
  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 school’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 schools and national averages, at whole school, 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 school.
   
• Manage the examination process
  Manage external and internal exams, including seating, results distribution and analysis.
   
• Enable flexible working in schools
  Teachers can enter the grades and comments over the internet at home via SIMS Learning Gateway.
   
• Share pupil data around a collegiate
  With the addition of SIMS Partnership Xchange, pupil data can be automatically and securely shared around a collegiate - to make sure all those teaching pupils have the vital information they need - academic, behavioural, social and medical, at their fingertips.

To help pupils reach their full potential, your schools 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, schools will save valuable time monitoring performance whilst gaining valuable interaction time with their pupils.

“Through colour coding in SIMS Assessment, we can see who is falling behind in their targets. Where departments or teachers are working well, we share this expertise with those who are less successful. Staff target resources to underperforming pupils ensuring everyone reaches their potential.”
- Frank Butt, Deputy Head – Academic, Langley School, Norfolk