SIMS Core Suite for Local Authorities

SIMS Core Suite is the central source for school data – the point at which schools can collate, edit and analyse information, building a complete picture of every pupil.

Schools can see a full profile of their school through the activities of their pupils. The SIMS Core Suite delivers back accurate information schools need to help them actively manage their school and make real time decisions based on evidence, not assumptions.

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 schools the complete picture
   
• Ensure pupil records are up-to-date
  ‘Alerts’ remind school staff when their pupil records need updating
   
• Communicate efficiently
  Schools can free up more time for the day job of teaching – they can send immediate messages straight to the right people, prepare quick letters home without searching for addresses, using the contact details already saved in SIMS. School staff stay in the loop via the SIMS Home Page Diary
   
• Save time by holding school 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 for schools. Statutory returns are created and submitted straight from the data already saved in SIMS
   
• Comprehensive reports
  Schools can 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, your teachers can access the latest pupil 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 gives your school staff everything they need to actively manage their school and perform their role effectively. Staff can easily access vital information - who keeps missing school, whether their Gifted and Talented Register reflects the demographics of their pupils, and whether bad behaviour always happens on Friday afternoons.

"SIMS allows us to get on with the core business of teaching and learning. It’s pupil performance data means that every child can have support when and where it is most needed"
- Ms A Quaile, Headteacher