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The Sims and FMS Autumn 2017 Upgrade contains a
number of enhancements and fixes. It upgrades Sims
to 7.178 and FMS to 6.178
Scomis Upgrade Bulletin
http://faq.scomis.org/kb19331/
Admissions
• New Features
• Updated ATF Version Number
• AppLicabLe to Maintained schooLs in EngLand onLy
• Routines I Admission I Import ATF File
• It is now possible to import version 13.0 or 14.0 ATF files onLy.
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Assessment
• The EYFS Profile National Report 2017 individual report template
has been updated in line with DfE requirements (via Tools I
Performance I Assessment I Wizard Manager)
• An error no longer occurs when searching for a grade set in the
Assessment Mapping Tool (via Tools I Performance I Assessment I
Assessment MappingTool)
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CTF
• New Features
• Additional Import Location Option for Guest Pupil/Students
• Routines | Data In | CTF | Import CTF
• The Guest option has been added to the Place new pupils in drop-
down list so that pupils can be imported as guests without being
allocated admission numbers or being registered for attendance. As
it is no longer required as a result, the Edit Current Imported
Students panel is no longer displayed after import.
• Update to English and Welsh Ethnicity Mappings
• Applicable to schools in England only
• The ethnicity codes that can and cannot be transferred in a CTF
between schools in
• England and Wales have been updated in line with Welsh
Government legislation.
• Fixes
• This release includes a fix in the following area:
• For EOTAS schools in Northern Ireland, an exam candidate's UCI
number is now
• imported via CTF. The UCI number can now be exported via CTF
(via Routines |
• Data In | CTF | Import CTF and Routines | Data Out | CTF | Export
CTF).
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• Enhancement to the CML File
• Applicable to schools in England only
• Routines | Data Out | CTF | Export CTF
• Grounds for Removal has been added to the CME – Leavers CTF
type. A pupil must
• have Grounds for Removal for them to be exported in a CME –
Leavers file.
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Update to English and Welsh Ethnicity
Mappings
• Applicable to schools in England only
• The ethnicity codes that can and cannot be transferred in a CTF
between schools in England and Wales have been updated in line
with Welsh Government legislation.
• Fixes
• This release includes a fix in the following area:
• For EOTAS schools in Northern Ireland, an exam candidate's UCI
number is now imported via CTF. The UCI number can now be
exported via CTF (via Routines |Data In | CTF | Import CTF and
Routines | Data Out | CTF | Export CTF).
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Discover
This release includes fixes in the following areas:
• The Percentage Session Attendance by Half-Term graph now
correctly calculates data from the start of term until yesterday,
instead of from the start of term until the end of term.
• In registration group Venn diagrams, the Student count and
percentage figures are now displayed correctly.
• The Number of Applications by Feeder School pre-admission graph
has been enhanced so that it can now report on a larger number of
feeder schools.
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Discover
• The Attendance Summary widget now populates with the correct
data when just a single Discover group is selected.
• Columns in stacked bar graphs are now displayed in the correct
order when reimported
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Home Page
• New Features
• Additional Widget for MyConcern Users
• Focus | Home Page
• For users of MyConcern, it is now possible to add the MyConcern
widget to the SIMS Home Page via the Configure button.
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Reporting
Addition of the Person Data Output Report
• Routines | Data Out | Person Data Output
• Users with the Data Protection permission can now generate a
Person Data Output report, which provides an output of specified
data held within SIMS 7 of a specified pupil.
• This can be used in conjunction with other reports and outputs to
assist the user to complete any SARs (Subject Access Requests).
• Admission Register (Roll Book) CME Ver(sion) Report
• Applicable to schools in England only
• Reports | Run Report - Focus | Student
• The Admission Register (Roll Book) CME Ver(sion) report has been
provided. This report
• relates to Children Missing in Education and includes Grounds for
Removal
• information.
• Additions to the Reporting Dictionary
• Applicable to schools in England only
• Reports | Design Report - Student | School
• It is now possible to include the Grounds for Removal field when
designing a report.
• Reporting for MyConcern
• Reports | Design Report - Student | CESThirdPartyFields
• For users of MyConcern, it is now possible to include MyConcern
information in a report.
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Reports | Run Report - Focus | Student
• The Admission Register (Roll Book) CME Ver(sion) report has been
provided. This report relates to Children Missing in Education and
includes Grounds for Removal information.
Additions to the Reporting Dictionary
• Reports | Design Report - Student | School
• It is now possible to include the Grounds for Removal field when
designing a report.
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School Census Spring 2018 Return
School Census Spring 2018 Key Dates
Routines | Statutory Return | School Census
Census date 18/01/2018
Attendance collected from the start of the 2017 Autumn term to 31/12/2017
Exclusions collected from 17/04/2017 (Easter Monday) to 31/08/2017
Free School Meal Eligibility collected from 06/10/2017 to 18/01/2018
Learner Support collected from 01/08/2017 to 18/01/2018.
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Earliest Date of Admission
Routines | Statutory Return | School Census
Focus | School | School Details
The Date Number Changed screen label (associated with the previous
establishment number) has been changed to Earliest DOA (date of
admission) in the following panels:
• School Information panel (School Census)
• Establishment panel (School Details).
This date represents the date of admission of pupils into a sponsor-led
Academy that has a new DfE Establishment Number.
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Early Years Pupil Premium Eligibility Report
Applicable to schools with Early Years children only
Routines | Statutory Return | School Census
• The new EYPPE detail report enables schools to check the early
years pupil premium eligibility information being collected in the
return. The report is available from the Detail Report drop-down list.
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Two Year Old Basis for Funding
Applicable to schools with Early Years children only
Routines | Statutory Return | School Census
• The following changes have been made to enable schools to record the
basis for funding for two year old pupils:
2 Year Old Basis for Funding grid
• A new grid (entitled 2 Year Old Basis for Funding) is available in the
Early Years panel to enable schools to enter the basis for funding for
each pupil with a date of birth from 01/01/2015 to 31/12/2015.
2 Year Old Basis for Funding report
• This new report enables schools to check the two year old basis for
funding information being collected in the return. The report is available
from the Detail Report drop-down list.
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SIMS Core
Renaming of the Date Number Changed Field
• Applicable to schools in England only
• Focus | School | School Details
• The Date Number Changed field adjacent to the Previous Estab
Number field has been renamed Earliest DOA (Date of Admission).
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Addition of the Grounds
for Removal Field
Focus | Pupil | Pupil Details
• Routines | Pupil | Leavers
• The Grounds for Removal drop-down list has been added to the
School History panel on the Pupil Details page and the Leaving
Information panel on the Leavers page. Schools are required to
record this information for all pupils on leaving the school.
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Addition of Grounds for Removal
Lookups
• Health
• Unauthorised Absence of 20
Days or more
• Detained
• Deceased
• Not of compulsory school age
• Left School
• Permanent Exclusion
• Completed Nursery Education
• Financial
• Grounds for Removal
• Change in School Attendance
Order
• Registered at another school
• Was dual registered, going to
single registration at other
school
• Education other than at school
• Distance
• Failure to attend within 10 days
after an exception leave of
absence
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Tools | Lookups | Maintain
The following lookups have been added:
Addition of the Destination Institution Field
to the Leavers Routine
Routines | Pupil | Leavers
• The Destination Institution field has been added to the Leaving
Information panel on the Leavers page.
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What is SIMS Primary?
• Next generation of SIMS
• Cloud-based
• New role-based interface
• Focussed on delivering information to all staff
• Stream-lining of processes
• Live in 5 schools
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Scomis and SIMS Primary
• Working with Capita as one of a handful of LSUs across the country
• In partnership with a few schools looking at pre-pilot phase, running
tests on schools data while still using SIMS 7 as the main MIS
• Evaluation Phase, checking functionality and ease of access
• Feedback to Capita on all aspects of the new software
• If pre-pilot phase is successful and the schools are happy, we will
move schools to the new platform
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Scomis and SIMS Primary
• We need to fully understand the implications of moving to the new
software
• We need to identify the most efficient way of moving schools to the
new platform with least impact on critical business processes
• We will need to identify key staff at each school and how to manage
each school though the process
• Implications of Training and On-site support
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https://live01.sims.co.uk
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• SIMS Finance provides multi-academy trusts (MATs)with a complete
picture of their finances.
• Clear dashboards show a consolidated financial view across an
academy group, while powerful reports enable you to drill down and
easily see where and how much is being spent in each academy,
helping you to spot opportunities to benefit from economies of scale.
• SIMS Finance has been designed with the needs of educational
users in mind to help improve efficiency and save time in the trust’s
finance office.
“SIMS Finance is based upon the successful Capita Integra solution
that is in use by hundreds of organisations, with thousands of users with
millions of transactions. It has a proven track record having been used
for many years in public sector organisations throughout the UK and
Ireland”.
“Our aim is that SIMS Finance meets the needs of educational
establishments in the UK, with a specific focus upon Multi-Academy
Trusts who are looking for effective and cost efficient solutions”.
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SIMS Finance?
• Streamline financial operations across your group with fully
authorised process work flows.
• Improve financial transparency across your trust.
• It’s cloud based, meaning you can access it at any time and you
don’t have to manage backups or upgrades.
• Fully encrypted, secure and GDPR compliant.
• It integrates with SIMS.
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MAT not using FMS6
• “Easy enough to use, like the facility to copy old orders.”
• “Enabling staff to add Orders — I think enabling budgets holders to
raise their own orders is brilliant”
• “SIMS Finance should allow us to reduce the cost of raising orders
that is £25,000 currently p.a.”
Interim Business Director of a MAT
• “SIMS Finance would be able to support us should the Governors
decide to convert the Trust into a MAT and join with other schools.”
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Analyse your consolidated list of suppliers by spend, number of
orders or invoices and value of orders.
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