SIMS Core Suite for Academies

SIMS Core Suite is the central source for your academy's data – the place at which you collate, edit and analyse information, building a complete picture of every pupil.

See a full profile of your academy through the activities of your pupils. The SIMS Core Suite delivers back accurate information you need to help actively manage your academy and make real-time decisions based on evidence, not assumptions.

Academies and schools tell us that by entering achievement and behaviour information directly into SIMS, they’ve saved over 370 hours (or ten weeks of admin time) the first year alone.

Key benefits

Monitor behaviour, progress and AM and PM attendance
Key data on individual attendance, progress, behaviour, achievements and Special Educational Needs is displayed on a single screen. Quick links to details can inform pupil/parent meetings and give you the complete picture

Ensure your pupil records are up-to-date
Alerts remind you when pupil records need updating

Communicate efficiently
Free up more time for the day job of teaching - send immediate messages straight to the right people, prepare quick letters home without searching for addresses, using the contact details already saved in SIMS. Staff stay in the loop via the SIMS Home Page Diary

Save time by holding staff data centrally
Professional details, qualifications and training information is held together and pulled through into School Workforce Census

Reduce administration - compile statutory returns electronically
Take the hard work out of a necessary task. Statutory returns are created and submitted straight from the data already saved in SIMS

Comprehensive reports
Get relevant data on persistent or unexplained absences, behaviour incidents, SEN Provision, and SEF all from a single source

SIMS in the palm of your hand
With SIMS Emerge, the SIMS ‘App’ from our partner Groupcall, teachers can access the latest student data such as attendance and behaviour, directly via an iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad for anywhere access to SIMS

Imagine. A single information point that tells you everything you need to actively manage your academy and perform your role effectively. Easily access vital information - who keeps missing lessons, whether your Gifted and Talented Register reflects the demographics of your pupils, and whether bad behaviour always happens on Friday afternoons.

"The SIMS Homepage, edited by staff, displays the data pertinent to them. This was the Eureka moment for staff. They can see where the data is going and how important it is."
- Mike Adnitt, Vice Principal, The St Lawrence Academy, Scunthorpe