Statutory Returns

End of Key Stage Returns

End of Key Stage

Bulletin on the Scomis Home Page

http://news.scomis.org/new2820/

Contains latest issues and links to updated documentation and user guides

End of Key Stage

Re-Issued Reports

Capita have re-issued the EYFS National Reports and KS1 Student Report because of inaccuracies

Details are on the bulletin with a link to download and import the new reports

End of Key Stage

• Year 1 and Year 2 Phonics wizards will be re-issued on 30th June 2014

• The EYFS Wizard contains last year’s passmark for the Phonics. The DfE will only be advising software suppliers of this year’s passmark on 30th June.

• Bulletin will be kept up to date and new wizard linked in for download as soon as it is available.

School Census Autumn 2014

News and Documentation• Autumn School Census Files are loaded with the

Summer Upgrade.• Fileset 170 is included in the Summer Upgrade• Any new filesets and patches will be automatically

applied to Hosted Schools and posted on the bulletin for non-hosted schools.

• Autumn Census bulletin will be available on the Scomis homepage during June.

School Census Autumn 2014 OverviewCensus Date: 2nd October

Changes to the Pupil Characteristics Module

School Lunch Taken on Reference Date

School Lunch Taken on Reference Date

• All R, Year 1 and 2 pupils will show in a list

• We will give the user the choice of defaulting the ticks from information available in the Dinner Money application or in the Attendance application or no default

School Workforce Census 2014

School Workforce Census 2014 Overview

DfE changes compared to SWC 2013

• Census Reference Date 6th November 2014

• QTS route now to be included for all staff who, since the previous school workforce census, have taken up their first position since qualifying as a teacher, regardless of when they qualified

• School Direct and School Direct (salaried) now included in the range of QTS routes.

School Workforce Census 2014 Overview

DfE changes compared to SWC 2013• Base pay now has to be included even if Scales and Points

are included . Validation rule 4540 has been adjusted to take account of this.

• ‘Advanced Skills Teacher’ and ‘Excellent Teacher’ pay scales have been superseded by 'Leading Practitioner'. Validation rules 4500 and 4505 have been removed to take account of this.

School Workforce Census 2014 OverviewDfE changes compared to SWC 2013• New validation queries added.• Check that birth dates are not defaulting to 1 January• Check that salaries are above the minimum wage and

below the local government maximum• Check that staff are not recorded as working more

than 48 hours per week• New validation error added• Check that Weeks Per Year is not greater than 53

School Workforce Census 2014 OverviewBase Pay and Additional Payments• Schools are NOT being forced to move to the new style of

pay structures in Personnel 7, so it is going to be difficult for the Census to obtain reliable base pay and additional payment information.

• We intend to continue to allow school to adjust base pay manually as necessary.

Scale Information• The DfE still wants this to be included where available and

relevant, e.g. Senior leadership

Pupil Premium 2014-2015

Pupil Premium 2014-15Resources • Report Definition: DfE Ever 6 @ Spring Census 2014

• http://faq.scomis.org/kb11357

• Pupil premium faq• http://faq.scomis.org/kb9401

Pupil Premium 2014-2015 – Calculation Spreadsheet

Pupil Premium Calculation Spreadsheet

DfE CSV file for Financial Year 2014/15• Once the DfE has finalised the structure of the CSV file we

will upload the Capita presentation and spreadsheet to explain how the information can be used to check and understand the funding.

Pupil Premium Calculation Spreadsheet

DfE CSV file for Financial Year 2014/15• We expect the CSV file to include the following information

for each pupil where a school based Premium has been identified• UPN, Surname, Forename, Gender, DOB, NC Year • Deprivation Premium (Y/N), Service Child Premium (Y/N), Adopted

from Care Premium (Y/N), Proxy Looked After Child Premium (Y/N) • FTE (e.g. 1 or .5) • Pupil Premium Financial Year Start Date (01/04/2014) • Pupil Premium Financial Year End Date (31/03/2015) • Cash Amount (takes account of FTE and Proxy Looked After Child

Premium deduction)

Pupil Premium Calculation SpreadsheetCalculation Spreadsheet for Financial Year 2014/15• The spreadsheet will allow the information in the DfE CSV

file to be copied to the CSV_Data worksheet

Pupil Premium Calculation SpreadsheetCalculation Spreadsheet for Financial Year 2014/15• A Rates worksheet has been populated

Pupil Premium Calculation SpreadsheetCalculation Spreadsheet for Financial Year 2014/15• A Calculation worksheet has been populated with suitable

formulas to calculate from the CSV_Data and Rates

Pupil Premium Calculation SpreadsheetCalculation Spreadsheet for Financial Year 2014/15• A Summary worksheet has been provided to summaries

the information from the Calculation worksheet

Content

Pupil Premium 2014-2015 - Maintain

Maintain Pupil Premium for Spring ReleaseTools | Pupil Premium | Maintain

• The DfE will be providing Adopted from Care Premium funding to schools for financial year 2014/15

• This Premium attracts funding at the Pupil Premium Plus rate• The DfE will be providing information about the 2014/15 Premiums

in a new CSV format that includes Adopted from Care Premium• The DfE is planning to make the first version of the new CSV file for

each school available for download in May or June, which means that it May be available before school update to the Summer Release, which will have full support for the new file

• We have added Adopted from Care to our maintain functionality, so schools can enter the information manually if they wish.

Maintain Pupil Premium for Spring Release

Tools | Pupil Premium | Maintain• In the Spring Release we will modify the maintain functionality to add

Adopted from Care Premium to the list of choices for Premium Type. This will make it possible for schools to enter this information manually where they are unable to wait for the Summer Release of the revised CSV file Import functionality.

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