St Helens LAPrimary School

Update Session

16 October 2008

Ruth Walker & Lisa Ruth

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

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

Tracking Pupil Progress in Primary Schools

Natasha Marsh Primary Sector Product Manager

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.)

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

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.

RAISEOnline Filters

Marksheet Filtering

Multiple filters with Include or Exclude

Include

Exclude

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.

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

Graphing Grade Distribution

Apply Nested if then else colour to an additional column

ISP Pupil Tracking Grids

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.

Demonstration

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.

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.

Primary Curriculum

Reporting to Parents

Easington Colliery School

Spaldwick Primary School

Spaldwick Primary School

Road Map2008

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

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.

Primary Curriculum

Primary Curriculum

June 2008

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

August 2008

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

August 2008

Attendance Changes to academic year creation Attendance letters Archiving routines

School Workforce Autumn Return 2008

November 2008

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

Assessment ManagerMarksheet to Calculate on Data Entry

AM7 Marksheet Insert Notes Columns

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

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

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

Profiles 7

Checking

Screen

Profiles 7 Checking Screen

Showing multiple teachers

Teacher Pupil View

Teacher Pupil View

Road Map 2009

Release Dates 2009

Main Releases

2nd March 17th June 19th October

Update Release

17th April 17th August 17th December

March 2009

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

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

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

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

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

Assessment Profiles

Add Names to Dictionary

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’

Option to Calculate on Data Entry

Ability to add more than one additional data

column at a time

Global narrow column setting

Copy / paste facility for contextual fields into an Aspect

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

Export Marksheet as Raw Data Only

Further Information Available…

Viewlets

http://home.capitaes.co.uk/sims/downloads/demos.asp

Quick Reference Guides

www.capitaes.co.uk/SIMSref

‘Achievement’Magazine

Statutory Returns & Resources

Autumn 2008

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

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.

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.

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

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)

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

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.

FMS eProcurement

FMS eProcurement

Demonstration

OPEN - Start Shopping

OPEN Searching and ordering items

OPEN - Shopping Cart

OPEN – Creating Requisition

Importing into FMS

DCSF “Field Trial” Autumn 2008

DCSF nominated Local Authorities

East SussexNorth SomersetSandwell

45 schools

Functionality activated by a licence patch