SIMS Curriculum Management Suite for Secondary Schools

SIMS Curriculum Management Suite helps you manage student timetables quickly and easily, ensuring the process of producing a complete and organised school curriculum is less time consuming and more productive overall.

The process of managing the school’s curriculum - from juggling students’ GCSE options to organising staff cover, can be a very complex and time consuming task. 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.

The SIMS Curriculum Management Suite allows you to design the best curriculum and schedule a timetable that suits the majority of your students whilst maximising the efficient use of teachers and other resources.

Key benefits

Offer pupils the education that they expect and deserve

• Give your students 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
• Juggle students' options and create individual student timetables at the touch of a button

Automate the timetabling process

• Create complex timetables in minutes for the school and for individual students, based on their subject choices
• Evaluate and compare suggested timetables, both in terms of cost and staffing resources, to ensure maximum efficiency
• Modify timetables using manual or automatic scheduling to ensure they meet the needs of individual students and the school

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

Children who can study the subjects that interest them are far more likely to achieve in school. However, arranging timetables for every student, and ensuring that they fit in with your curriculum and staffing resources, can be an immense undertaking.

And when cover needs to be arranged quickly for an absent teacher, this can put even more pressure on your school staff. When the time comes for students to make their subject choices, you could manage the whole process quickly and easily with the SIMS Curriculum Management Suite.

"NovaT6 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