next generation sims · 2018. 2. 8. · next steps getting more involved with sims next generation:...

Natasha Marsh

Next Generation SIMS

Session overview

This session will provide an overview of SIMS Next

Generation core features for all schools, including:

• Attendance – tablet use

• Pupil Log – the summary page for an individual

• Class Log – a leader board with bulk comment entry

• Conduct Summary – enabling follow-up on events

• Dashboards for school leaders and teachers

Software Demonstration

Next steps

Getting more involved with SIMS Next Generation:

• We will provide logins for access to a primary demo site

for you to explore, along with some activity ideas.

• In the second half of the year we will re-collect data from

interested schools, to provide non-live access to your

own data for review.

• We will also start looking for schools to join a pre-pilot

with a potential to become early adopters.

• Product Managers will contact you with information

about secondary product developments as these arise.

Thank you.

Any questions?

Thank you. Any questions?

Rachael Marshman, Product Manager and Assessment Lead

Assessment in next generation SIMS

Overview: Assessment now and in the future

An enhanced & re-imagined solution supporting schools

however they choose to assess

• Teacher focused

• Different types of assessment

• Curriculum management

• Teacher marksheets

• Reporting and analysis

Assessment: Statutory & internal

Statutory assessments• Used to provide key milestone information to support national

comparisons, performance tables and accountability measures

Internal assessments• Assessment practices to support a schools own assessment policy• Outcomes provide key information to support decisions & evidence

the impact a school is having on children's attainment and progress. • Assessment to support teaching and learning

Summative judgements to formative assessments linked to curriculum statements of knowledge, always assess at the level of detail right for your school

Subject

Subject Strand

Curriculum Statement


Subject Strand



Summative

Summative

Formative (Curriculum)

Formative (granular details)

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Various layers of assessment

Plan, Communicate, Teach, Assess

One central process supporting teachers to manage, maintain and communicate curriculum plans whilst the tracking tools take care of themselves

Programme of Study Scheme(s)

• Curriculum learning objectives, setting out clear expectations for achievement each year

Topics

• Plan your curriculum focus each term, generate topics & tracking that reflects what’s being taught

Data entry (tracking)

• Teachers focus on timely & relevant assessments, adapting to support current needs of the class

One central process supporting teachers to manage, maintain and

communicate curriculum plans whilst the tracking tools take care of

themselves

Plan, Communicate, Teach, Assess

One central process supporting teachers to manage, maintain and communicate curriculum plans whilst the tracking tools take care of themselves

• Focus on assessing criteria that’s important to you

• Set out clear expectations for achievement

• Understand what a child knows and still has to learn

• Gain insights into strengths and weaknesses

• Defines a clear framework for learning

This approach supports assessment for teaching and learning…

Curriculum learning objectives taken directly from Government schemes,

leading publishers, schools’ own criteria and best practice.

ENGLAND

DfE National Curriculum

Early Years Foundation

Stage

NAHT

Rising Stars

Oxford University Press

Schools own scheme

LA scheme

Curriculum Advisors scheme

Personalised schemes

WALES

Literacy and Numeracy

Framework

Key Stage 2 Curriculum

Digital Skills Framework

ABC Steps, routes for

learning

Foundation stage full profile

Foundation stage compact

profile

Personalised schemes

Curriculum: Programme of Study

Topics: Plan, Communicate, Teach, Assess



themselves

• Effective and efficient objective planning

• Mirrored tracking directly linked to teaching objectives

• Instant communication materials to share with pupils, parents & Ofsted

Supporting teaching practices, tackling workload & delivering clear

communications in a single process…

Cross-curricular teaching themes made up of learning objectives

from any number of curriculum subjects.

Topics: Plan, Communicate, Teach, Assess

Marksheet: Plan, Communicate, Teach, Assess



themselves

• Pupil contextual information

• Summative assessments

• Formulas

Define and combine any assessment to support your school’s priorities

and specific data capture needs. Set at a template level…

Marksheet: Plan, Communicate, Teach, Assess



themselves

• Pupil contextual information

• Summative assessments

• Formulas (and conditional formatting)

• Curriculum learning objectives

• Ad hoc ‘teacher’ columns

• ‘Smart’ filters aid focussed display of data

How this simple concept can help support all schools…

Define and combine any assessment to support your schools priorities

and specific data capture needs. Set at a template level…

Marksheet: Teacher view, record/view results

Add a column

within a marksheet.

Marksheet: Add my own column

Add a column

within a marksheet.Add name and

choose Text or

Numeric.


Add a column

within a marksheet.

New column is

added.


Add a column

within a marksheet.

Flood fill, sort and

filter work as for

other columns.


Analysis and reporting

Outcomes: Analysis and reporting (SIMS7)

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Outcomes: Analysis and reporting (next)

Output reports/CAS EYFS Good Level of Development Output.xls.xlsxOutput reports/CAS EYFS Good Level of Development Output.xls.xlsx

Formulas

• Within marksheets and templates

Business intelligence (BI)

• Defined reports with intelligent filters for easy cross

reference of data

Ad-hoc reporting

• Customisable reports supporting the quick build up of

data tables for reporting and review

Parental reporting

• Individual pupil driven reports to help communicate

achievement and key messages to pupils and parents

Make better use of your data, understand key features that support the

calculation, analysis and reporting on pupil attainment and progress

Outcomes: formulas, analysis and reporting

Outcomes: Reporting to parents…

Streamlined approach to creation and generation of parental reports,

identify assessments to include, review and select preferred layout options

Community: Sharing resources

assessment

Community: Sharing resources

• Supporting teachers to manage, maintain and communicate their

assessment focus with streamlined tracking tools that reflect what’s

important to each school

• Provides the evaluation of pupil outcomes against a variety of contextual

information such as learner characteristics, behaviour, attendance etc

• Pre-defined reports and analysis tools aimed to work off our assessments

and yours…

SIMS Assessment continuing to support schools however they choose to assess

Assessment: Plan, Communicate, Teach, Assess

Mandie Kirk

SIMS Finance

• Background

• 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.

SIMS Finance

SIMS Finance features and benefits

Accessibility Web based hosted in Azure, available on mobile devices

Reporting Consolidation, Groups, Graphical

Workflow Inbuilt. Increase efficiency, reduces time and costs

Users No additional charge for users

Functionality Multi-company, central administration of Chart of Accounts, Permissions & Suppliers, Supports local and central bank account (Q1 2018), Supplier Review

SIMS Integration Generation of salary projections from contracts held in both SIMS7 and SIMS Primary representing ~80% of budget (Q1 2018)

SIMS Finance - Presentation

SIMS Finance Presentation

• Consolidation and drill down to transaction

• Dashboards

• SIMS integration

• School comparisons

SIMS Finance webpage and resources

Blogs from Product Managers and guest bloggers

Demo video – coming soon

Join upcoming webinars (8 Feb & 1 March)

& register for updates

These can all be accessed via the SIMS Finance webpage:

www.capita-sims.co.uk/products-and-services/sims-finance

In addition, there are webinars exclusively for partnership schools on 20 Feb & 28 Feb. Registration details will be emailed to you following the event today.

http://www.capita-sims.co.uk/products-and-services/sims-finance

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