SIMS Core Suite for Secondary Schools

SIMS Core Suite is the central source for your secondary school data – the point at which you collate, edit and analyse information, building a complete picture of every student.

See a full profile of your school through the activities of your students. The SIMS Core Suite delivers back accurate information you need to help actively manage your 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 student/parent meetings and give you the complete picture
   
• Ensure your student records are up-to-date
  ‘Alerts’ remind you when student 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 school and perform your role effectively. Easily access vital information - who keeps missing school, whether your Gifted and Talented Register reflects the demographics of your students, and whether bad behaviour always happens on Friday afternoons.

"One immediate result of cleaning up our SIMS Core database was there were no mistakes in our Census return. It took ten minutes. The previous one took two days!"
- Libby Brooker, SIMS Manager, The Bishop Bell CE School, Eastbourne