st helens la primary school update session 16 october 2008 ruth walker & lisa ruth
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St Helens LAPrimary School
Update Session
16 October 2008
Ruth Walker & Lisa Ruth
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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
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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
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Tracking Pupil Progress in Primary Schools
Natasha Marsh Primary Sector Product Manager
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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.)
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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
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Tracking Progress Marksheet Templates
Provided from May 2008 for optional automaticinstallation, 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.
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RAISEOnline Filters
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Marksheet Filtering
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Multiple filters with Include or Exclude
Include
Exclude
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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.
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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
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Graphing Grade Distribution
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Apply Nested if then else colour to an additional column
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ISP Pupil Tracking Grids
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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.
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Demonstration
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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.
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Primary Curriculum
Allows primary schools to:
• Create Teaching Groups from combined Registration Groups;
• View Assessment data while allocating pupils;
• Filter marksheets by teaching groups.
Benefits:
Create Marksheets and Reports for these Groups;
Makes group allocations easier;
Track progress of target groups.
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Primary Curriculum
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Reporting to Parents
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Easington Colliery School
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Spaldwick Primary School
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Spaldwick Primary School
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Road Map2008
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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
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Primary Curriculum
Allows primary schools to:
• Create Teaching Groups from combined Registration Groups;
• View Assessment data while allocating pupils;
• Filter marksheets by teaching groups.
Benefits:
Create Marksheets and Reports for these Groups;
Makes group allocations easier;
Track progress of target groups.
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Primary Curriculum
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Primary Curriculum
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June 2008
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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
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August 2008
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August 2008Assessment Manager
Improvements to support Primary Use of Assessment Auto install and update of AMPARK resources Further new marksheet filters Pre-installed pupil tracking grids
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August 2008
Attendance Changes to academic year creation Attendance letters Archiving routines
School Workforce Autumn Return 2008
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November 2008
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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
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Assessment ManagerMarksheet to Calculate on Data Entry
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AM7 Marksheet Insert Notes Columns
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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
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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
Roadmap - August 2008
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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
Senior Manager’s Checking Screen
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Profiles 7
Checking
Screen
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Profiles 7 Checking Screen
Showing multiple teachers
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Teacher Pupil View
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Teacher Pupil View
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Road Map 2009
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Release Dates 2009
Main Releases
2nd March 17th June 19th October
Update Release
17th April 17th August 17th December
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March 2009
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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
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Resources and Statutory
FMS
21st Century Trading
Enhancements
CFR 09/10
Personnel
Next of Kin
School Workforce
Census
StatutoryReturns
PLASCPost 16CensusSchool
WorkforceAttendance Ret
CTF 9.0
Fees Billing
Enhancements
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Performance and Curriculum
Options7
Move to .net
Pupil Web Part
Review Course Manager
ExtendedServices
Diary event
Attendance
Performance
Performance
Exams
Primary Review
PartnershipxChange
SEN data
Behaviour and Achievement
FE / Work based
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Core, Attendance andeLearning
STARCore
Senior Leadership Dashboard
Dynamic User Defined Gps
SEN
SIMS Learning Gateway
Governors
Enhancements
Options
Partnership Xchange
Technical
System 7
Reporting
Deployment
TeachersTools
Tabbing
Homepage
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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
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Assessment Profiles
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Add Names to Dictionary
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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’
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Option to Calculate on Data Entry
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Ability to add more than one additional data
column at a time
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Global narrow column setting
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Copy / paste facility for contextual fields into an Aspect
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Import Enhancements
Matching Student button to remain open
‘Overwrite with Defaults’ option for
Assessment
‘Overwrite with Defaults’ option for Analysis
Export Enhancements
Exporting using ASRU
Option to bulk export ‘Unformatted’
marksheets
Suppress duplicate marksheets
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Export Marksheet as Raw Data Only
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Further Information Available…
Viewlets
http://home.capitaes.co.uk/sims/downloads/demos.asp
Quick Reference Guides
www.capitaes.co.uk/SIMSref
‘Achievement’Magazine
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Statutory Returns & Resources
Autumn 2008
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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
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What data will be collectedStaff 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(does not apply to centrally employed staff)
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.
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.
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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.
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What data in which CensusCensus Snapshot Data Continuous Data
Spring Staff Details and Contract / Service Agreement modulesTeacher 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 termAbsence on Census dayAbsence 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 DetailsQualifications for all teachers and TAs working in maths & scienceCurriculum 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
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Suggested timings for key tasks2009 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)
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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.
Benefits to Schools
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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.
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FMS eProcurement
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FMS eProcurement
Demonstration
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OPEN - Start Shopping
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OPEN Searching and ordering items
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OPEN - Shopping Cart
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OPEN – Creating Requisition
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Importing into FMS
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DCSF “Field Trial” Autumn 2008
DCSF nominated Local Authorities
East SussexNorth SomersetSandwell
45 schools
Functionality activated by a licence patch