This term, we’re bringing you new modules designed to make a real difference in your daily work. Whether you’re a teacher, school leader, or MAT executive, our latest updates in SIMS Next Gen and Group Hub MIS are built to help you achieve better outcomes for your students and schools.
For teachers, Class View will streamline your classroom management, reducing admin time so you can focus more on teaching. Meanwhile, FMS Connected customers will soon have access to additional cloud-based finance reports.
What’s coming your way this term
For teachers:
Class View: Your new in-class teaching tool that brings together key pupil information and essential teaching tasks in one place. With Class View, you can do away with unnecessary admin and run your classroom more efficiently.
Let's dive into the key features:
- Create a seating plan. Reduce distractions and encourage collaboration to improve learning outcomes.
- Take the register. Get a visual summary of attendance at a glance.
- Add positive and negative conduct events. Spot patterns and provide appropriate feedback and support.
- Track key student information such as EAL, Pupil Premium or SEND. Provide personalised teaching strategies to help your students thrive.
- Record assessments. Track student performance, identify areas for improvement, and plan targeted interventions to support student learning.
- Record a medical incident. Maintain an accurate and up-to-date record of health-related issues occurring during school hours.
Conduct Events: Record positive and negative behaviour more effectively.
- Choose your own language for positive and negative conduct event types.
- Decide what data is captured for negative conduct based on severity levels.
- Quickly retrieve records to identify trends or revisit past incidents.
Conduct Dashboards will allow you to review and monitor conduct data for students under your supervision. These will be available early next year.
Online Marksheets: We’re extending this popular module for secondary schools to primary schools, allowing marksheets that are created in SIMS 7 to be made available in Next Gen.
For school leaders:
School Attendance Reports: Stay ahead with a powerful suite of five configurable attendance reports, designed to meet your school’s unique needs and simplify your reporting process.
- Attendance by Category: Present attendance data to key stakeholders, including governors and MAT leaders.
- Attendance by Cohort: Quickly identify attendance trends across different groups.
- Attendance by Code: Access an in-depth view of student attendance patterns and codes.
- Attendance Tracker: Spot patterns over time for the whole school, key cohorts, or individual students.
- Percentage Attendance: Understand the reasons behind absences to take proactive measures.
Finance Next Gen: Simplify financial management with a cloud-based reporting solution that makes it easy to prepare and share reports with stakeholders.
- Ledger Code Reports: See how money is allocated and spent across different categories, such as departments, projects, or expense types.
For MAT leaders:
Group Hub: Take control with our new centralised management solution, designed to give you a holistic view of your trust and streamlines operations across schools.
- MAT Profile: Access comprehensive data on all schools in your trust, including key metrics like attendance rates and Ofsted ratings, all in one place.
- Clusters: Efficiently manage groups of schools for targeted analysis and reporting.
- Access school MIS: Drill down from Group Hub to the relevant school MIS for detailed information about pupils and staff
- Staff Profile: Centralised staff management to ensure smooth, consistent operations across schools
For office staff:
Staff Absences: Keep on top of staff attendance with this module that helps you track, manage, and analyse absences more effectively.
- Edit & Create: Make quick updates to staff absences and see them reflected immediately in the Cover module and Staff Profile.
- Spot Patterns: Identify trends and ensure your school meets its cover needs and statutory obligations.
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Thank you!
As always, thank you for your dedication to improving educational outcomes. Whether you’re in the classroom, the office, or the boardroom, you’re making a difference every day, and we're honoured to support you in your mission.
Stay tuned for more updates, and here’s to a successful term ahead!