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St Helens LA
Primary School
Update Session
16 October 2008
Ruth Walker & Lisa Ruth
SIMS - Raising Standards
25% increase in Level 5 SATS scores 2004 – 2007
“The Information we hold in SIMS not only helps
us to monitor and provide appropriate support for
the children, but also to engage with parents in a
more details and meaningful way”
Harry Weightman, Head, Easington Colliery Primary
School, Durham
SIMS - Raising Standards
12% increase in Level 4+ SATS scores 2004 - 2007
“Pupil performance data from SIMS is ‘mission
critical’ for leading the school’s improvement
programme”
Greg Marsden, Head, Lisle Marsden Primary School,
NE Lincolnshire
Tracking Pupil Progress
in Primary Schools
Natasha Marsh
Primary Sector Product Manager
Why Track Progress?
Provides a focus for professional dialogue to
support assessment for learning and personalised
learning;
Enables targeted mapping of intervention to
support pupil learning;
Provides evidence of the impact of actions on
progress and strengthens the accountability of
teachers and head teachers.
(From ‘The Improving Schools Programme (ISP):
supporting schools to secure the progress of all
learners’ leaflet, Primary National Strategy, March
2008, Ref. 00148-2008-LEF-EN.)
New Assessment Features
Tracking Progress Marksheet Templates
Additional Group filters with multiple filtering;
Graphing Grade Distribution in Marksheets;
Applying Nested if then Else to another column;
Opening Marksheets from Template;
Pupil Tracking Grids;
Automatic Upgrade and Installation of AMPARK
Resources.
Primary Curriculum: teaching groups
Tracking Progress
Marksheet Templates
Provided from May 2008 for optional automatic
installation, for tracking pupil progress:
Templates for Years 1 – 6 in Reading, Writing,
Speaking & Listening, Maths, Science.
English Templates for Years 1 – 6 that aggregate
Speaking & Listening, Reading and Writing
Templates for Years 3 – 6 to check comparative
progress in English and Maths (England only).
A Template to summarise year on year progress.
Templates to convert Y2 and Y6 teacher
assessments to KS1 and KS2 validated results.
RAISEOnline Filters
Marksheet Filtering
Multiple filters with Include or
Exclude
Include
Exclude
Save a Filter
Save a filter selection with a user defined name;
Apply saved filters to a Marksheet;
Still be able to apply filter directly to a Marksheet
and save, as now.
New Filters
First Language
Year Group (All Years)
Free School Meals
Gender
SEN Status
English as an Additional
Language
Looked After
Gifted/Talented
Asylum Status
Traveller Status
Term of Birth
Academic Year of
Admission
Prior Attainment Band
Boarder Status (Independent
Schools only)
User Defined Fields
Multiple Include / Exclude
Saving Filters
Graphing Grade Distribution
Apply Nested if then else
colour to an additional column
ISP Pupil Tracking Grids
Pupil Tracking Grids
SIMS Pupil Tracking Grids will enable teachers to visually establish
whether pupils are on target, or need intervention to enable them
to fulfill their potential.
Tracking Grids can be populated once teacher assessments are
entered in the Tracking Progress Marksheets;
They can be cloned and customised for use with other templates;
Options to select the type of grid and the subject, and customise
the grid layout;
Types of grid include termly tracking, yearly tracking and tracking
current against KS1 results.
The functionality to create these Grids will also be available for
advanced users in any School phase.
Demonstration
New Handbook
A new handbook, Tracking
Pupil Progress in Primary
Schools, describes how to
use the new Assessment
features and Tracking Grids.
A description of each SIMS
Tracking Grid is provided in
the appendix to this
handbook.
Primary Curriculum
Allows primary schools to:
Benefits:
• Create Teaching Groups
from combined
Registration Groups;
Create Marksheets
and Reports for
these Groups;
• View Assessment data
while allocating pupils;
Makes group
allocations easier;
• Filter marksheets by
teaching groups.
Track progress of
target groups.
Primary Curriculum
Reporting to Parents
Easington Colliery School
Spaldwick Primary School
Spaldwick Primary School
Road Map
2008
The last 12 months
Microsoft SQL Server Migration
FMS Migration
P7 Conversion
New Home Page
Primary Curriculum
Cover 7
Attendance 7
SIMS Learning Gateway 2
Tracking Resources in Assessment
Teachers View
FMS electronic ordering/invoicing
Partnership Xchange
Primary Curriculum
Allows primary schools to:
Benefits:
• Create Teaching Groups
from combined
Registration Groups;
Create Marksheets
and Reports for
these Groups;
• View Assessment data
while allocating pupils;
Makes group
allocations easier;
• Filter marksheets by
teaching groups.
Track progress of
target groups.
Primary Curriculum
Primary Curriculum
June 2008
June 2008
Attendance
Locking down the statutory codes to ensure only this
set can be used
Document Management Server
School administrators can make a ‘confidential’ or
‘public’ document private even though not the owner
Private documents can be viewed by school
administrators
Date document added will be visible
August 2008
August 2008
Assessment Manager
Improvements to support Primary Use of Assessment
Auto install and update of AMPARK resources
Further new marksheet filters
Pre-installed pupil tracking grids
August 2008
Attendance
Changes to academic year creation
Attendance letters
Archiving routines
School Workforce Autumn Return 2008
November 2008
November 2008
Assessment Manager
Data entry cell colour to change (Nested If Then)
Ability to copy/paste formulae
Ability to edit/change Result sets
Ability for teachers to add columns on the fly
Personnel
Ability to bulk update data
Ability to bulk assign staff to training events
School Census Spring Return 2009
Assessment Manager
Marksheet to Calculate on Data Entry
AM7
Marksheet
Insert
Notes
Columns
November 2008
Alerts
Ability to send to one or more recipients
Ability to send to people associated with a pupil
Ability to send by role – eg HOY
Scheduled reports “last or future x days”
Reminders enhanced to include Missing Register and
Extra Names in Lesson Monitor
STAR
Homepage enhancements to include –
Assessment data
Behaviour and achievement data
Drilldown on attendance data to individual students
Automatic refresh on homepage
Date ranges for Attendance, behaviour and achievement
data
Roadmap - August 2008
SIMS Alerts….
Ability to send to a group of people
Ability to send to people associated
with a pupil
Schedule reports – last X days
Message by email
Attendance Alerts
Missing registers Alert
First period of absence report
Profiles 7
Senior Manager’s Checking Screen
Review
Show all text written for student.
Check
Spell Check.
Edit text.
Add own comments in Pastoral Overview Area.
Approve
Mark report as approved.
Notify teacher of Non Approved reports via
Alerts.
Run a report to list Non Approved Sections
Profiles 7
Checking
Screen
Profiles 7 Checking Screen
Showing
multiple
teachers
Teacher Pupil View
Teacher Pupil View
Road Map 2009
Release Dates 2009
Main Releases
2nd March
17th June
19th October
Update Release
17th April
17th August
17th December
March 2009
Priorities 2009/10
1. Significantly reduce the hassle factors
2. Complete the move to .net
3. Ensure that SIMS is the tool for teachers &
leaders
4. Expand the facilities available through SIMS
Learning Gateway
Resources and Statutory
FMS
21st Century
Trading
Next of Kin
Personnel
Enhancements
School
Workforce
Census
CFR 09/10
Statutory
Returns
PLASC
Post 16
Census
School
Workforce
Attendance Ret
CTF 9.0
Enhancements
Fees Billing
Performance and
Curriculum
Move to .net
Options
7
Performance
Pupil Web Part
Diary event
Extended
Services
Attendance
Review Course
Manager
Performance
Exams
SEN data
Primary
Review
Partnership
xChange
Behaviour and
Achievement
FE / Work based
Core, Attendance and
eLearning
STAR
Core
Technical
Senior
Leadership
Dashboard
Dynamic User
Defined Gps
Governors
SIMS
Learning
Gateway
Enhancements
Options
SEN
Partnership
Xchange
System 7
Tabbing
Reporting
Deployment
Teachers
Tools
Homepage
March 2009
Academic Management
Alternative Curriculum
School Census Summer Return 2009
School Workforce Census Summer Return 2009
System Manager 7
Base release
Enhancement project for Behaviour,
Achievement, Detentions & Report Card
Assessment
Profiles
Add Names to Dictionary
Marksheet Enhancements
Additional Information Fields
Chronological Age on Marksheet
Ability to add more than one data column at a time
Revise order of additional Categories
Copy / paste facility for contextual fields into an
Aspect
Supervisor’s (Teacher’s) Name on Marksheet title bar
Button to add favourite Marksheets to homepage
Marksheet Screen to fill the whole of the screen
Global narrow column setting
Link from Pupil name to new Pupil Summary Screen
Option to ‘Calculate on data entry’
Option to Calculate on Data Entry
Ability to add
more than one
additional data
column at a
time
Global narrow column setting
Copy / paste facility for
contextual fields into an Aspect
Import Enhancements
Matching Student button to remain
open
‘Overwrite with Defaults’ option for
Assessment
Export Enhancements
‘Overwrite with Defaults’ option for
Exporting using ASRU
Analysis
Option to bulk export ‘Unformatted’
marksheets
Export Marksheet as Raw Data
Only
Further Information Available…
‘Achievement’
Magazine
Viewlets
http://home.capitaes.co.uk/sims/
downloads/demos.asp
Quick Reference Guides
www.capitaes.co.uk/SIMSref
Statutory Returns &
Resources
Autumn 2008
School Workforce Census
34 Pilot LAs 2008
Barnsley
Bedfordshire
Birmingham
Blackpool
Bradford
Bromley
Buckinghamshire
Bury
Calderdale
Cornwall
Darlington
Derbyshire
Ealing
East Riding of Yorkshire
Essex
Islington
Kensington and Chelsea
Lancashire
Leicestershire
Middlesbrough
Northamptonshire
Northumberland
Nottinghamshire
Sheffield
Solihull
South Gloucestershire
Southampton
Southwark
Swindon
Tameside
Wakefield
Walsall
Wigan
Wolverhampton
What data will be collected
Staff details module
Basic identifiers and characteristics (eg name, gender, NI
number) plus details of QT or HLTA status.
Contract / Service
Agreement module
Describes the type of contract or service agreement, plus
details of pay and hours worked.
Incorporates dates of service and codes for origin and
destination.
Absence module
For teachers and TAs, each absence, the type of the absence
(includes training), the first and last day and the number of
working days lost.
(does not apply to centrally
employed staff)
Curriculum module
Details of curriculum subjects being taught by teachers and
TAs in secondary and middle deemed secondary schools with
computerised timetable systems that interface to their MIS.
Qualification module
Details of qualifications at NQF level 4 or higher for teachers
and TAs working in maths and science.
What data will be collected
Vacancies module
One entry for each vacancy at the school on
the day of the January Census. Slightly wider
definition than 618g – vacancies that have tried
to fill.
Staff Information
module
Headcount of teachers on occasional service
on the day of the January Census. Split
between staff with QTS, those without QTS
and those where QTS is not known.
Headcount of support staff not directly
employed by a school or LA in working at the
school on the day of the January Census, split
by roles in role code list.
What data in which Census
Census
Snapshot Data
Continuous Data
Spring
Staff Details and Contract /
Service Agreement modules
Teacher vacancies and
headcounts of occasional
teachers and agency support
staff
Staff Details and non-pay Contract /
Agreement modules for contracts with
start or end dates in previous term
Absence on Census day
Absence data for previous year
Summer
None
Staff Details and non-pay Contract /
Agreement modules for contracts with
start or end dates in previous term
Autumn
Staff Details
Qualifications for all teachers and
TAs working in maths & science
Curriculum for teachers and TAs
in secondary schools
Staff Details and non-pay Contract /
Agreement modules for contracts with
start or end dates in previous term
Suggested timings for key tasks
2009
2008 Pilot Authorities
2009 Authorities
Jan
Collection of data from all
schools
First collection of absence data
Collection of data on centrally
employed staff from LAs
Collection of data from at least 10% or
10 schools
Collection of data on centrally
employed staff from LAs
Training
All schools start recording absence
data
May
Collection of data from all
schools (prior term updates)
Collection of data on centrally
employed staff from LAs (prior
term updates)
Data from at least 10% or 10 schools
(prior term updates only)
Data on centrally employed staff from
LAs (prior term updates only)
Sept
All schools in all LAs participate, providing data on
curriculum, qualifications and prior term updates
Data on centrally employed staff from LAs (curriculum, qualifications and
prior term updates)
Benefits to Schools
All information accurate and centrally recorded.
Information can be used for budgetary and financial
planning
MIS can be used as an internal training log (CPD
common professional development).
Can provide accurate and complete information for
OFSTED.
The Department can plan policies around actual events,
this will feed through to benefit schools over time.
DCSF conclusion
On the whole the collection went well
Most authorities managed to supply the data onto
COLLECT
Overall the quality of the data is good.
FMS eProcurement
FMS eProcurement
Demonstration
OPEN - Start Shopping
OPEN
Searching and ordering items
OPEN - Shopping Cart
OPEN – Creating Requisition
Importing into FMS
DCSF “Field Trial” Autumn 2008
DCSF nominated Local Authorities
East Sussex
North Somerset
Sandwell
45 schools
Functionality activated by a licence patch