SIMS Attendance Data Consultancy
What is it?
Our SIMS Attendance Consultancy will begin with a focus on how your school are currently monitoring and reporting on pupil attendance. We will also demonstrate our new Power BI solution to show the functionality and benefits this can give to your school.
Why do I need it?
We will help you to identify the best reporting methods, for use by the school, and delivering this information to pupils and their family, helping you to manage and improve attendance in your school.
We will demonstrate the built-in reports within SIMS to identify attendance concerns in schools (groups and individuals). We will help you track pupil attendance to encourage active, parental communication, by identifying changes in attendance patterns in a timely fashion, which will enhance conversations with parents, and help benefit future outcomes for your pupils.
What are the benefits?
- Provide a structured approach to your attendance strategy, which is driven by data.
- Save time on attendance administration, so that you can focus on implementing strategies for improvement.
- Prepare you for working with the School Attendance Consultant, so their visits are as useful as possible to you.
- Allow attendance managers, pastoral managers and heads of year to have impactful conversations with students and parents.
- Allow senior leaders to have well informed conversations with OFSTED.
What is included?
Our SIMS specialist will:
- Import and customise a collection of SIMS letter templates to help improve attendance communication with your families.
- Import an attendance tracker for use within SIMS, with guidance for best practice.
- Provide expert knowledge on which pre-defined reports to use in attendance, to provide effective and efficient data reporting and monitoring.
They will also provide advice regarding additional ways in SIMS to track attendance for your school which will include:
- Further attendance letter customisation and generation.
- Customisation of the SIMS home page for attendance tracking.
What is excluded?
- Amendments or new requests for SIMS Consultancy services should be commissioned separately.
- Once the consultancy has been completed, additional support requests will be via our ICT Service Centre My Incidents online form or via telephone on 0300 123 6797 (Option 3).
What does it cost?
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Additional information
Is anything required before I can use this service?
Your school must have SIMS operational on a SIMS server hosted within the school to use this service.
How many hours are included as part of this consultancy?
This is wholly dependent on your school's requirements. A no obligation quote for costs and timescale for delivery are provided following an initial consultation. All SIMS consultancies are subject to SIMS consultant availability. This service is offered throughout the academic year.
Are there any restrictions on this service?
Education Digital Services are not responsible for the data included in SIMS. Your school needs to ensure you have up-to-date attendance data within SIMS and all relevant attendance marks allocated for all students, ready for the consultancy.