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Behaviour & Achievement

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Improving behaviour in schools is one of the government’s key aims as behaviour has a direct impact on a pupil’s attainment. Schools put enormous effort and resources themselves into promoting positive behaviour and recognising achievement.

SIMS has functionality that enables a school to record behaviour and achievement events of individuals or groups of pupils in order to manage detentions, record exclusions and report on all of these aspects.  Information can be viewed instantly and easily by members of staff using SIMS.

Content

  • Setting up and configuration
  • Using routines for individual or groups of pupils
  • Adding behaviour incidents and achievements
  • from class attendance register
  • Setting up and administering
  • detentions including letters to parents
  • Creation of report cards
  • Adding behaviour review meetings
  • and follow up to behaviour incidents
  • Adding further interventions if required
  • Reporting

Attendance

Full day

Course dates to be allocated according to demand. If you are interested in this course, please complete the form here

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Dinner Money

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Course overview

A thorough introduction to recording dinner information within SIMS.

The course is an introduction for new users to use SIMS to record Dinner Money information. It will address the activation and setting up, populating Dinner Money with appropriate data, creating Opening Balances, registers, payments and banking, maintaining Dinner Money, reports, Letters and Statements.

The course is designed for finance and office staff who are responsible for administering school dinner money and who have an understanding of how SIMS is used to maintain and update pupil information.

Benefits of attending

To learn how to record dinners in SIMS including Universal Infant Free School Meals. Record payments against a pupil and reconcile these against meals taken. 

What you will learn

• installation and set up of SIMS Dinner Money
• populating SIMS Dinner Money with appropriate data
• creating opening balances registers
• payments and banking
• maintaining dinner money
• reports, letters and statements.

Who is it for?

Finance and office staff who are responsible for administering school dinners and dinner money and who have an understanding of how SIMS is used to maintain and update pupil information.

Course dates to be allocated according to demand. If you are interested in this course, please complete the form here

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SIMS End of Year (Primary)

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Learn how to configure SIMS for the new school year, including setting up the new pastoral structure and dealing with admissions. Before the new school year commences, the pastoral process must be completed in SIMS.

Dealing with the new school year can be a complex process. Gain an overview of the requirements of the new school year, including dealing with admissions and leavers.

Content

  • Creating a new academic year and setting up the school diary
  • Managing pre-admission groups and processing new intake pupil applicants
  • How to use CTF to import new pupil data
  • Preparing the pastoral structure for the academic year including year and registration group memberships
  • Processing leavers
  • Producing class lists

Attendance

Half day Followed by coffee, informal chat / questions with the trainer and networking with colleagues

Course dates to be allocated according to demand. If you are interested in this course, please complete the form here

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Extended Reporting

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Course overview

This one day course provides a follow up to the Standard Reporting course. It is designed for users of SIMS responsible for responding to requests for detailed information. You should have either attended the Standard Reporting course or be familiar with the techniques covered on that course.

Benefits of attending

To further develop reporting techniques covered in the Standard Reporting course. 

What you will learn

• the production of more complicated lists and mail merged documents
• modifying templates to adjust the appearance of reports including incorporating headed paper
• developing the use of RTF output exploring cross-modular links in the data
• using different focuses as the starting point for reports
• extending the use of the Analysis tool.

Who is it for?

Users of SIMS responsible for responding to requests for information. You should have either attended the Standard Reporting course or be familiar with the techniques covered on the course.

Course dates to be allocated according to demand. If you are interested in this course, please complete the form here

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SIMS Top Tips & Techniques

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Discover useful ways of managing school data, best practice housekeeping and understand core functionality in SIMS.

The course is aimed at admin staff in schools who are already working in SIMS.net. It is not suitable for new users – a separate course is offered entitled SIMS Office User.

Content

  • Contact management
  • Customising correspondence
  • User-defined groups
  • User-defined fields
  • Alerts, notifications and communication
  • Merging agents and agencies
  • Quick reports
  • Changes to data – bulk update
  • managing the school diary; adding a bulletin to the homepage; managing extended pupil data; managing agents and agencies; managing exclusions; managing user defined groups; managing user defined fields; managing lookups; making use of bulk routines and housekeeping routines; extended use of CTF’s

Attendance

Full day

Course dates to be allocated according to demand. If you are interested in this course, please complete the form here

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SIMS Office User (Primary)

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The purpose of this course is to familiarise delegates with what pupil information is contained in SIMS.net and how to find it. In addition delegates will practice common pupil data editing routines encountered on a day to day basis in schools. It is aimed at delegates who are new to SIMS.net and possibly new to working in school software and who will need to find, add and edit pupil data.

Content

  • Viewing pupil information
  • Editing pupil data
  • Adding new pupils
  • Managing leavers and re-admitting pupils
  • Additional maintenance tasks
  • Using standard reports and lists

Attendance

Full day

Course dates to be allocated according to demand. If you are interested in this course, please complete the form here

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SIMS SEN User

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The Special Educational Needs facility in SIMS.net is used to support schools in following the SEN Code of Practice. This course provides a detailed overview of the SIMS software for managing the SEN process in school and is designed for SENCOs, senior staff with responsibility for overseeing special needs provision and administrative staff who may be involved in maintaining SEN information.

An understanding of the SEN Code of Practice and how it is managed in school would be useful.

Content

  • Navigate through SIMS
  • Manage and record details of reviews, events and provisions
  • Manage students transition from statemented to EHCP
  • Produce the SEN reports provided in SIMS
  • Edit look up tables
  • Add linked Adults, Agents and Agencies
  • Send, receive and view messages relating to SEN students
  • Configure their SIMS home page to help monitor SEN processes

Attendance

Half day

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Standard Reporting

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An introduction to the report designing process:

Schools need to be able to respond to requests for information efficiently, including reports, making your school processes more streamlined. This course is intended for SIMS users responsible for responding to requests for information. You should have attended a SIMS Office User course or have a good understanding of SIMS.

Content

  • Running pre-defined reports
  • Modifying and creating reports to produce lists
  • Creating reports to produce mailmerge documents and labels
  • The use of different output formats of Word and Excel
  • Using analysis output
  • Exporting, importing and using the My Favourite Reports panel on the Homepage
  • Attendance

Full day

Course dates to be allocated according to demand. If you are interested in this course, please complete the form here

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Programmes of Study for the New Key Stage Curriculum

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This course will help delegates to understand and use the resources that are available in relation to the new Curriculum.

Benefits of attending

To gain a practical insight into the functionality of the new SIMS Assessment software and to understand the available resources relating to the curriculum.

Content

  • How to use the latest assessment functionality to record data against the new National Curriculum Programmes of Study
  • Use of the resources available to monitor and evaluate progress and analyse data effectively from one screen
  • Evaluating progress based on expectations
  • Generating reports for parents/carers based on pupil attainment and progress, linked to the Programmes of Study

Attendance
Full day

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Discover Assessment User (Secondary)

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Learn how to adapt the SIMS Discover user definable components to analyse assessment data effectively.

• Use bar charts, line graphs and Venn diagrams to analyse the data in your SMS database

• Cross-match attendance, behaviour or achievement data against gender, ethnicity or special needs

• Analyse population by Year group and Pupil Premium, House and EAL, Registration group and gender

• Check attendance by gender, monitor attendance throughout the school year.

• Create dynamic groups where the population changes according to the data – eg low attendees

• All facilitated in a drag and drop analysis, making the production of clear charts as easy as 1,2,3.

CONTENT

  • The relationship between SIMS Discover and SIMS Assessment
  • The SIMS Discover interface
  • The SIMS Discover configuration utility
  • Defining, calculating and using SIMS Discover aspects
  • How to customise the pre-defined SIMS Discover assessment graphs
  • How to create new SIMS Discover assessment graphs

  • ATTENDANCE

Full day

 

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SIMS Profiles For New Users

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Learn how to produce high quality, fully customisable reports for parents based on the Profiles software, using editable pre-defined comments, free text or a mixture of both.

Benefits of attending

Parents want to be kept in the loop – learn how to produce high quality customisable reports with SIMS Profiles. SIMS Profiles reports can be generated using information in SIMS assessment and can be mailed to parents using the Parent App.

Content

  • How to create and import comment banks and link comments to grades in assessment
  • How to set up a profiling session and design a school report template
  • How to select and amend comments, enter free text, check and preview Profiles
  • How to review and approve pupils’ Profile reports Generation and printing of the final profile report
  • Linking Profiles to the individual pupil record in linked documents

Duration

Full day or site visit

Course dates to be allocated according to demand. If you are interested in this course, please complete the form here

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SIMS Discover Assessment User (Primary)

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Learn how to adapt the SIMS Discover user definable components to analyse assessment data effectively.

• Use bar charts, line graphs and Venn diagrams to analyse the data in your SMS database

• Cross-match attendance, behaviour or achievement data against gender, ethnicity or special needs

• Analyse population by Year group and Pupil Premium, House and EAL, Registration group and gender

• Check attendance by gender, monitor attendance throughout the school year.

• Create dynamic groups where the population changes according to the data – eg low attendees

• All facilitated in a drag and drop analysis, making the production of clear charts as easy as 1,2,3.

CONTENT

The relationship between SIMS Discover and SIMS Assessment

The SIMS Discover interface
The SIMS Discover configuration utility

Defining, calculating and using SIMS Discover aspects

How to customise the pre-defined SIMS Discover assessment graphs

How to create new SIMS Discover assessment graphs

ATTENDANCE
Full day

Course Booking enquiries
01618831290 or email support@osmis.co.uk

Course dates to be allocated according to demand. If you are interested in this course, please complete the form here;

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Lesson Monitor

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Lesson Monitor is designed to enable schools, colleges and academies to monitor individual lesson attendance and tackle post registration truancy. The software is simple to use but very powerful, particularly when using the Reports available for analysis of the data, and the links with Behaviour Management.

It is particularly important that Lesson Monitor is implemented with a properly prepared management plan to ensure the software is used to best effect and the school’s objectives in implementation are achieved.

Content

  • Introduction to Lesson Monitor
  • Initial considerations
  • Modes of use
  • Customising the module for your use
  • Earliest mark
  • Data entry
  • Lesson register using SIMS.net
  • Edit lesson marks
  • Deal with unexplained absences/missing marks
  • Entering a code over a date range
  • Setting up a weekly pattern
  • Reports
  • Attendance

Full day

Course Booking enquiries
01618831290 or email support@osmis.co.uk

Course dates to be allocated according to demand. If you are interested in this course, please complete the form here;

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Attendance

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Course Overview

Learn how to use SIMS Attendance to fulfil day-to-day statutory attendance monitoring requirements. Strong attendance has a direct impact on achievement. Learn how to make the best use of SIMS attendance for effective attendance monitoring.

This one day course is designed for staff with responsibility for attendance who have an understanding of attendance procedures and who are familiar with SIMS.

What You Will Learn

  • Planning a strategy for managing the statutory attendance process
  • Customising sims attendance to meet the particular needs of your school
  • Understanding the potential links to other functionality in sims
  • Identifying the most efficient way of collecting attendance data
  • Understanding how to maintain attendance data effectively
  • Reporting attendance data to help monitor attendance

Who is it for?

Staff with responsibility for maintaining Pupil/Student attendance records. An understanding of attendance procedures and familiarity with SIMS would be beneficial. 

Course dates to be allocated according to demand. If you are interested in this course, please complete the form here;

 

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Top Ten Reasons for Giving your Teachers Access to SIMS in the Classroom (Primary)

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For SIMS to make a real difference to your school or academy, you need all the staff to understand everything it can do for them and ensure that they are using the wealth of information stored in the system. OSMIS can provide a half day consultancy session to look at how you could make better use of SIMS in the classroom to improve the schools business processes and provide better value for money from you Management Information System.

Content

  • SIMS home page
  • Registration
  • Recording achievement and behaviour
  • Assessment tracking
  • Pupil information at your finger tips
  • Special education needs (SEN) details
  • Analysing and reporting data
  • Writing reports for parents
  • Parental engagement
  • School diary
  • Attendance

Half day consultancy onsite

Course Booking enquiries
01618831290 or email support@osmis.co.uk

Course dates to be allocated according to demand. If you are interested in this course, please complete the form here;