SIMS School Improvement Programme

The SIMS School Improvement Programme provides you with the expertise you need to drive improved teaching and learning by ensuring you're getting the most out of your data. All of our SIMS School Improvement Consultants have worked as senior leaders and have a proven track record of helping schools provide evidence of improvement to parents, governors and Ofsted.

Strategic support from expert consultants

Our expert consultants work with you to ensure you are gaining the specific intelligence that you need from your data. They can advise on how best to develop the effective use of data throughout your school in support of whole school improvement and developing an 'always prepared' for inspection policy. The focus of each consultation is tailored to meet the needs of your individual school or academy group.

Ensuring your staff have access to the data they need

The SIMS School Improvement Programme Data Dashboard is a reporting service for automating customised reports that meet the different needs of the staff across your organisation, from senior leaders to teachers. Your consultant will work with you to ensure each member of your team has access to the specific data they need to drive school improvement. You can also opt to have the dashboards automatically distributed to your team via email. Data is presented in easily assimilated charts with the functionality to filter, zoom and drill down.

Four versions are available: single school dashboard, MAT dashboard, MAT dashboard Lite, student dashboard.

The school improvement team have been integral in allowing us to look at data with a different perspective. The data it produces informs so many decisions in our school. The school improvement team have been a real help to channel the way we do things in our school and we're now doing that with the primary schools too. Their experience is invaluable.

Tina Sparrow, Data Manager, Passmores Academy

The School Improvement Programme Data Dashboards

The SIMS School Improvement Programme Data Dashboard for multi-academy groups brings together key data from across your academies, with the functionality to drill down into the data behind the graphs for detail.

This is one screen from a data dashboard for a MAT, where any reportable data from SIMS can be displayed on interactive graphs, available online using Power BI.

This is the Data Dashboard for individual schools, which presents key school data in a graphical format, with the functionality to drill down into the data behind the graphs for detail.

The Student Dashboard draws together student specific data including attendance, achievements, behaviour and assessments, Predicted examination grades are displayed with a 'What if?' facility to see the results of changing grades on Attainment 8 figure.

This is one screen from a data dashboard for a primary school, where any reportable data from SIMS can be displayed on interactive graphs, available online using Power BI.

This is one screen from a data dashboard for a secondary school, where any reportable data from SIMS can be displayed on interactive graphs, available on-line using Power BI.

School Improvement Programme toolkit for secondary schools

The Key Stage 4 RAISE Inspection Dashboard presents analyses of your internal and external results in a form familiar to you from DfE publications, allowing you to uickly identify underperforming groups and individuals.

See the same scatter graphs as on the Schools Analysis site and highlight groups and individuals quickly to find good and poor performance.

The Progress Matrix demonstrates progress from a given starting point. The user can filter by key groups and classes and then drill through to individuals.

The Attainment All Subjects report allows the comparison of performance in each subject across different assessment points.

This reports shows progress for KS2-4, allowing the user to filter on key groups and classes, and drill through to individual students.

School Improvement Programme toolkit for primary schools

Tracking marksheet templates for Years 1 to 6 automatically populate with summative subject strand attainment data, entered via the SIMS Programmes of Study entry. These marksheets enable schools to enter overall subject summative attainment and track progress and age related expectations. There are additional columns which calculate these measures which are colour coded (ragged) to indicate Exceeding, Expected or Below on a half termly or termly basis.
Additional columns are provided for schools to enter an FFT Estimate, End of Key Stage target and enter and track towards end of year targets.

Combined Reading, Writing and Maths Tracking Marksheets enable schools to track those pupils who are on track to meet age related expectations in combined Reading, Writing and Maths.

The Key Stage 2 Inspection Dashboard allows analysis of Key Stage 2 results in the format of the school's own dashboard, generating graphs for all core subjects compared to national figures.