How SIMS helps

How SIMS helps
SIMS for academies
Providing you with all the information you need, the people you
will be dealing with and the services and support available to you
as an academy.
We’re here to support you
In the classroom
Making the most of SIMS is easy and we’re here to help. Read on to discover how and
what is available to you as a SIMS academy.
The answers classroom teachers need
To drive improvement in your academy, put SIMS in every classroom and make it a part
of every teacher’s daily routine. SIMS provides real-time information in the classroom
where it will make a real difference.
As a SIMS academy you will receive
A place at an annual SIMS event
Learn more about SIMS, how it’s used to best
effect and what’s new. You can also network
and share ideas with other academies.
Access to the SIMS online community
Sign up to My Account, our free portal with
access to handbooks, event bookings and
discussion forums.
Access to SIMS customer
services team
The SIMS customer services team are here to
help – they are just a phone call away.
SIMS eNewsletter - Achieve
Monthly news sent directly to your inbox on
key topics and essential SIMS support and
update information.
SIMS updates
Three software releases every year providing
enhancements and new features.
More insight, with less time
SIMS quickly gathers and shares information. This helps teachers make decisions, for example,
around targeted and immediate interventions – without adding to workloads.
• View the class and individual pupils instantly.
• Who is on target, who is behind?
• Who is on a report card?
• Who is always on time and has already been given five merit marks today?
Improving performance, understanding trends
Access to SIMS support service
desk to answer your questions *
If you have a question or require support on
SIMS your chosen service and support team are
on hand to help.
Teachers make decisions based on evidence and their experience. Pupils receive the benefit of their
teachers’ ability to interrogate SIMS data to find out how they can improve learning outcomes.
Information in one system means consistency across departments and year groups - enabling your staff
to take ownership of progress and helping support your whole academy to work together effectively.
Tools for classroom management
Extra help available...
If you’ve taken out our enhanced support
agreement, then when things go wrong
or you’ve got a question to ask, you have
access to the very best support. With
support from SIMS you’ll have access to
a local customer service manager (CSM),
receive regular invites to software update
events and benefit from discounted rates
on SIMS training and consultancy.
*If you are supported by an LA or third party
provider please contact them to see what
support is provided.
No more complicated spreadsheet analysis – replace with intuitive drag and drop
tools to generate graphs and diagrams. Electronic registration, traffic lights on
tracking grids, report templates and a teacher view on every pupil – the tools you
need for every aspect of classroom management.
How SIMS helps
SIMS Teacher app - makes everyday classroom tasks, like taking the register, looking up student information or checking
timetables simple.
SIMS Lesson Monitor - pupil’s attendance, behaviour, achievement and homework records entered once and available across
the academy.
SIMS Homepage - information on the whole academy alerting management and teaching staff to what they need to know.
SIMS TeacherView - a detailed summary screen for each pupil.
SIMS Learning Gateway - online access to SIMS in the classroom and at home.
Training and consultancy - for teachers.
Hardware for your academy - providing laptops and iPads in the classroom.
For management
At home
Providing academy leaders with
the information they need
Enhancing parent communications
Regular communication with parents is key to strengthening the link between home and
school. It’s also an opportunity to provide parents with an even greater understanding
of how their child is doing and in turn, helping to raise pupil attainment. You need to
ensure that messages are getting home, whilst reducing the cost of printing.
As a senior leader, you need the tools to make decisions about the issues that
matter. With SIMS, school leaders can see an overview of everything that’s
happening in their academy and track the impact of strategies they put in place.
The right information…
at the right time
The answers are in SIMS
Everything you need to know about your academy can
be at your fingertips. Academies hold masses of data in
their system and, with a good MIS that is used effectively,
this data becomes a goldmine of information. Where
are the attendance issues, which teachers give the
most achievement points, which department is underperforming? The answers are in SIMS.
Building leadership capacity
Whole academy solution
Academy office
Classroom
Reducing the academy
office burden
The answers classroom
teachers need
With SIMS, knowledge can be shared across the whole
academy. All staff can track and measure progress
consistently and teachers can plan effective interventions
based on what they know will work. This is key to
unlocking the entire academy’s capacity to grow.
SIMS Discover – the award-winning analysis tool allows for drag and drop data
analysis presented in a variety of graphs including Venn diagrams, bar charts and
pie charts.
Hosted SIMS – improving outcomes with access to SIMS, anytime, anywhere.
School Improvement Programme – harness your data to drive improved
teaching and learning across the whole academy.
SIMS Homepage – a holistic picture of what’s happening across the academy
with key indicators in real time alerting SLT to what they need to know.
SIMS TeacherView – a detailed summary screen for each pupil.
Pupils
Finance office
Management
Supporting administration and
financial management
Providing academy leaders with
the information they need
Home
Enhancing parent
communications
The power of whole school
communications
By using SIMS communication tools, the academy
community can be connected by the information
already held in SIMS. Alerts and information can be
broadcast to key stakeholders when they need it,
quickly and easily – and they can directly respond.
With the academy better connected, the right
information will flow more quickly and efficiently,
saving time and money.
Supporting your academy
to achieve excellence
How SIMS helps
SIMS holds a vast quantity of information about
every pupil. But how much of this is shared with
parents? Wouldn’t it be good if the parents’ evening
slot could focus on addressing the real issues rather
than bringing parents up-to-speed?
How SIMS helps
If the information is already there then the sharing is easy. SIMS has the tools to
do this whilst saving time and money.
SIMS Learning Gateway – give parents access to attendance, behaviour,
results and homework information online.
SIMS InTouch – communicate quickly in the SIMS screen you are working in
and push out up-to-date academy information and alerts to parents via text
message or email.
SIMS Agora - integrated, online parent payments made simple.
In the finance office
Helping you go the extra mile…
Supporting administration and financial management
Leave the technical work to us
At the heart of operations is the academy and finance office. With an endless
stream of phone calls, visitors and interruptions, time and resource are a
precious commodity. SIMS helps your super efficient staff achieve even more –
lightening their workloads.
IT issues can sometimes cause headaches for
staff. That’s why we offer technical support
for all your software and hardware. Not only
this, but we can also provide temporary or
permanent staff cover for all elements of
SIMS, FMS and your IT infrastructure.
Effective financial management
SIMS Financial Management System (FMS) is the only finance system created specifically for
the education sector and is chosen by over 1,700 academies. Accurately calculate staffing
costs and automatically reconcile payments against individual members of staff, by linking
SIMS FMS with SIMS Personnel.
Simplified admin at the click of a button
SIMS performs countless administration tasks automatically by reusing information already in
the system. You can save your finance office hours of administration by enabling staff to raise
their own orders electronically, eliminating the need to retain large volumes of paper and
improving financial efficiency.
Find the best hardware for your
school
Having trouble choosing the best
hardware and software for your
academy? We can help. We provide
expert advice on choosing the most
suitable solution for all your hardware
and software needs and will source the
latest IT equipment and software for
your academy at competitive rates.
Efficient management, control and reporting of budget
Our ICAEW accredited solution lets you easily manage your budget and meet your reporting
requirements for all your stakeholders.
Become SIMS experts
For SIMS to make a real difference
to your academy, you need to understand
everything it can do for you. We want you to become a
SIMS expert, which is why we offer a wide range of training courses
specifically designed to help you use SIMS more effectively.
How SIMS helps
SIMS Agora – integrated, online parent payments made simple.
SIMS Learning Gateway & SIMS InTouch – a whole academy and home paperless communication solution.
SIMS FMS - the academy financial management system.
SIMS FRS - advanced and graphical financial reporting.
SIMS FPS Web for academies - multi-year financial planning system.
BACS Processing Service - let Capita process all your BACS transactions.
SIMS Dinner Money - simplifies dinner money management processes in primary academies.
Training and consultancy - for office staff and finance managers.
Managed Services – Capita provides staff when needed such as consultants to help customise reports or for finance/statutory reports.
FMS MultiView – enables multi-academy trusts to support the financial management of their academies centrally.
We can train your staff on any of our 120 courses in 20 locations across the
country. Or let us bring the training to you – all courses can be delivered at
your academy or tailored for your specific needs.
Not quite sure what you’re looking for? Let us help you find the right
course for your academy.
For a full range of courses visit www.capita-sims.co.uk/training or
call us on 0800 170 1732
Ways to keep in touch
Make sure you don’t miss out on the latest SIMS news, our events and support
information. Stay in touch in a way that suits you:
‘Achieve’ the SIMS eNewsletter
Sign up at www.capita-sims.co.uk/stay-in-touch to receive
monthly SIMS news sent directly to your inbox with information
and links to case studies and ‘how to’ videos.
SIMS website
Find out how other academies are using SIMS, upcoming events,
SIMS training calendar, top tips and video demonstrations. www.
capita-sims.co.uk
My Account
Sign up to My Account, our free customer portal and join
thousands of SIMS users in the online community. You will have
access to handbooks, help files, event bookings and discussion
forums. www.capita-sims.co.uk/MyAccountLogin
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