Course overview
SIMS Interventions is a system to record and track underperforming students, allocate additional resources and monitor how those resources affect Key Performance Indicators. Interventions allows schools to record how much those resources cost, so that outcomes can be tracked against cost as well as against impact. Learn how to implement the approach successfully on this one day course.
Benefits of attending
This SIMS module is designed to allow intervention organisers, facilitators and analysers to plan, implement and review interventions that form part of the school's strategies for Assessment, Attendance and Behaviour/Achievement. The cost, benefit and overall effectiveness on pupil performance can be analysed and compared to other interventions. In-depth analysis can be performed of individual intervention effectiveness for different groups, for example ethnicity and pupil premium. It will also provide an individual pupil summary of which interventions are most effective.
What you will learn
By the end of the course you will be able to:
• define interventions, and capture and understand basic cost information
• set up when the intervention will take place, who will run it and allocate students to the intervention for a specific period of time
• add an intervention to an individual student
• record whether an intervention has been effective for an individual student
• record a target for an individual student
• review interventions against assessment data
• review which intervention is the most effective
• view/edit all interventions against an individual student
• analyse the intervention group in Discover
• analyse intervention information in an Assessment Marksheet and the Programme of Study
• create reports on the interventions through the reporting dictionary
• create analysis reports to provide to Ofsted or an LA as evidence of which students have which interventions and which interventions are most effective
• enhance Discover to pull through information on the interventions being run in the school.
Who is it for?
This course is aimed at staff responsible for the setup and maintenance of interventions within SIMS including Data Manager, SENCO and Administrative Staff.
Delegates should have knowledge of the interventions policy in use within their establishment and a basic understanding of SIMS.