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SIMS Software Update Seminar

Version 1.01. SIMS Software Update Seminar. Jim Haywood (Product Manager for Statutory Returns). Contents. Resources Overview. School Census Summer 2014. School Census Autumn 2014. Resources & Workshops Overview Preparation. School Workforce Census 2014. Resources & Workshop

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SIMS Software Update Seminar

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  1. Version 1.01 SIMS Software Update Seminar Jim Haywood (Product Manager for Statutory Returns)

  2. Contents • Resources • Overview School Census Summer 2014 School Census Autumn 2014 • Resources & Workshops • Overview • Preparation School Workforce Census 2014 • Resources & Workshop • Overview Pupil Premium 2014-15 • Resources • Calculation Spreadsheet • Maintain • Import DfE file

  3. School Census Summer 2014 Content

  4. School Census Summer 2014 - Resources Content

  5. School Census Summer 2014 Resources Resources available from SupportNet via keyword CENSUS14 • News Feed: 21690 • PowerPoint Presentations:- • School Census Summer 2014 Overview: 22125 • Hours for Early Years (Spring Release 2014): 22176 • Adopted from Care (Spring Release 2014): 22158 • Top Up Funding (Spring Release 2014): 22157

  6. School Census Summer 2014 - Overview Content

  7. School Census Summer 2014 Overview Main Changes Compared to Summer 2013 • Phases included • Pupil Referral Unit • All-Through • Items included • Top Up Funding Indicator • Adopted from Care included for School Census Summer for the first time

  8. School Census Summer 2014 Overview Main Changes Compared to Summer 2013 • Attendance Code F (Extended Family Holiday - Agreed) • Should not be have been used for Spring Term - we will check for this and warn as necessary • No longer included in Return

  9. School Census Summer 2014 Overview Coverage • Maintained Nursery Schools • Primary Schools • Middle Deemed Primary Schools • Middle Deemed Secondary Schools • Secondary Schools • All-Through Schools (including All-Through Academies)

  10. School Census Summer 2014 Overview Coverage • Special Schools (including Non-Maintained Special Schools) • Pupil Referral Units • City Technology Colleges • Academies (including Alternative Provision Academies, Free Schools and Alternative Provision Free Schools) • Service Children Education Schools, both primary and secondary, may participate on a voluntary basis

  11. School Census Summer 2014 Overview Dates All ranges are inclusive • Census Day • 15/05/2014 • Attendance • Age: 4 to 15 at 31/08/2013 • 01/01/2014 to 20/04/2014 (Spring Term) • Exclusions • Coverage: Not collected from Nursery Schools • Period: 01/09/2013 to 31/12/2013 (Autumn Term)

  12. School Census Summer 2014 Overview Dates All ranges are inclusive • Eligibility for FSM • Now the same for PRUs and Non-PRUs • Period: 17/01/2014 to 15/05/2014 (since Spring Census) • Learner Support • Age: 16 to 19 at 31/08/2013 • Period: 01/08/2013 to 15/05/2014 (since start of Academic Year)

  13. School Census Summer 2014 Overview Dates All ranges are inclusive • Hours at Setting and Funded Hours (DOB 01/09/2008 to 31/03/2012) • DOB 01/09/2008 to 31/08/2009 • 4 years old at 31/08/2013DOB • Maximum Entitlement to Funded Hours: 25 • DOB 01/09/2009 to 31/03/2012 • 3 years old at 31/08/2013 to 2 years old at 31/03/2014 • Maximum Entitlement to Funded Hours: 15

  14. School Census Summer 2014 Overview SEN Provision • Collected, as for Spring Census SEN Type • Not Collected SEN Type Ranking • Not collected Member of SEN Unit Indicator • Not collected

  15. School Census Summer 2014 Overview Member of Resource Provision Indicator (SEN) • Not collected Class Type for Primary and All Through Phases • Collected, as for Spring Census Attendance for Nursery and Special Phases • Not Collected, as for Spring Census Ethnicity • Not collected for Summer Census

  16. School Census Summer 2014 Overview Service Children in Education • Not collected for Summer Census Unit Contact Time for PRU Phase • Not collected for Summer Census Teenage Mothers Places for PRU Phase • Not collected for Summer Census Childcare Facilities for PRU Phase • Not collected for Summer Census

  17. School Census Autumn 2014 Content

  18. School Census Autumn 2014 – Resources & Workshops Content

  19. School Census Autumn 2014 Resources Resources available from SupportNet via keyword CENSUS14 • News Feed: 22009 • PowerPoint Presentations:- • School Census Autumn 2014 Preparation: 22125 • Programme of Study in Spring Release: 22206 • Programme of Study in Summer Release: 22195

  20. School Census Autumn 2014 UAT UAT Workshops • Bedford: 26th March • Minsthorpe: 8th May

  21. School Census Autumn 2014 - Overview Content

  22. School Census Autumn 2014 Overview DfE Changes to the Pupil Characteristics Module • School Lunch Taken on Reference Date • Post 16 Planned learning hours • Post 16 Planned learning hours previous • Post 16 Planned employability, enrichment and pastoral hours • Post 16 Planned employability, enrichment and pastoral hours previous • Post 16 Full-time employment indicator (on roll pupils only) on Reference Date

  23. School Census Autumn 2014 Overview DfE Changes to the Learning Aims Module • Post 16 Core Aim(s)

  24. School Census Autumn 2014 Overview School Lunch Taken on Reference Date • We will provide a list of all Year R, 1 and 2 pupils for schools to tick to indicate that they are taking a school lunch • We will not check any form of eligibility to free meals • The meal only has to be presented to the pupils; it doesn’t have to be eaten • 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

  25. School Census Autumn 2014 Overview Post 16 QAN Plus Discount Code • The DfE expects to receive QWS QAN plus Discount Code combinations in all cases. • QWS QAN plus Discount Code combinations can no longer be guaranteed to be in line with AO QAN plus Discount Code combinations. • The DfE has provided a document that purports to map between QWS QAN plus Discount Code combinations and the various AO QAN plus Discount Code. We intend to use this document for mapping between the two.

  26. School Census Autumn 2014 Overview Alternative Curriculum • Schools are now using this in a number of different ways • We are looking at allow schools to add alternative curriculum classes to courses, which can then be picked up by Census - I can’t promise this as we have other higher priorities

  27. School Census Autumn 2014 - Preparation Content

  28. School Census Autumn 2014 - Prep using the Spring Release Content

  29. School Census Autumn 2014Preparation Using the Spring Release Additional Information panel of Focus | Student | Student Details • New table provided with a row for each period of Post-16 Employment and columns for: • Start Date, • End Date, • Hours and • Notes

  30. School Census Autumn 2014Preparation Using the Spring Release Basic panel of Tools | Academic Management | Course Manager | Maintain Course • Fields introduced allow schools to record Planned Qualification and Planned Non-Qualification hours per year • These can be used for calculation in Maintain Programme of Study

  31. School Census Autumn 2014Preparation Using the Spring Release Membership and Results panel of Tools | Academic Management | Course Manager | Maintain Course • Core Aim column added to allows schools to view and edit the aim from a particular course. • However, the column only appears when a single year is being viewed. • When anything other than a single year is view a message is display to alert the user to the hidden column

  32. School Census Autumn 2014Preparation Using the Spring Release Membership and Results panel of Tools | Academic Management | Course Manager | Maintain Course • When a single year is viewed the column will include a tick if this course has been selected as the Core Aim for the student • On saving the user is warned where existing Core Aim would be replaced if they proceed • Where only one Core Aim is changed the warning message will also specify the current Core Aim that would be replaced.

  33. School Census Autumn 2014Preparation Using the Spring Release Tools | Academic Management | Course Manager | Course Manager Settings • Default Qualification and Non-Qualification Hours can be entered for each level • On save these default are added for courses at those levels that do not already have hours specified • When a course is created it will inherit default hours as specified for its level.

  34. School Census Autumn 2014Preparation Using the Spring Release Tools | Academic Management | Course Manager | Maintain Programme of Study • New functionality that provides a table with • rows for each student taught in year 12 and above at any point in the chosen Academic, • a column that include all the pupils courses on the relevant Autumn Census date and • editable columns for Planned Qualification and Non-Qualification Hours • Bulk entry facilities are provided including a tick for controlling overwriting of existing hour values • A button is also provided to calculate the hours from entries made in Maintain Course for the courses displayed.

  35. School Census Autumn 2014Preparation Using the Spring Release Tools | Academic Management | Course Manager | Maintain Programme of Study

  36. School Census Autumn 2014Preparation Using the Spring Release Focus | Student | Courses and Course link from Focus | Student | Student Details • View of Planned Qualification and Non-Qualification Hours added

  37. School Census Autumn 2014 – Prep Using Summer Release Content

  38. School Census Autumn 2014Preparation Using the Summer Release Tools | Academic Management | Course Manager | Course Manager Settings • Planned Hours Threshold can be set so hours below that threshold can be highlighted in Programme of Study

  39. School Census Autumn 2014Preparation Using the Summer Release Tools | Academic Management | Course Manager | Maintain Programme of Study

  40. School Workforce Census 2014 Content

  41. School Workforce Census 2014 - Resources Content

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