SIMS Curriculum Management Suite for Academies

The processes of designing the most suitable curriculum, creating a timetable to maximise your academy's resources, juggling pupils' GCSE options and efficiently organising staff cover, are complex and time consuming.

The SIMS Curriculum Management Suite ensures these tasks are managed through world class automation, providing insight, analysis and reporting in an easy to use environment, ensuring your academy runs as efficiently as possible.

Key benefits

With curriculum freedoms, ensure you're offering an education your pupils expect

• Give your pupils the maximum choice to study the subjects they want and keep class sizes to a minimum
• Arrange your teaching to ensure more students get to study the subjects they prefer
• Organise pupil options at the touch of a button

Automate the timetabling process

• Create complex timetables in minutes for the academy and individual pupils
• Evaluate and compare suggested timetables, ensuring they make the most of staffing and rooming resources, to ensure maximum efficiency
• Use what you know about your academy, your pupils and staff to modify timetables using manual or automatic scheduling

Help the school day run smoothly

• Easily organise cover for absent teachers from the moment you receive the call
• Identify which staff are available to cover a lesson and record supply staff bookings
• Simplify cover for arbitrary intervals that are not tied to period start and end times
• Keep a record of combined lessons and classroom closures

"Nova-T6 is an intelligent timetabling programme and the modelling tools and built-in checks tell me when I do something silly. SIMS is a very strong engine for the school."
- David Hadley-Price, Headteacher, Lordswood Boys' School, Birmingham