by David Pott | Mar 18, 2019 | Analysis, Assessment, Assessment Without Levels, EYFS, Intermediate, Primary, SIMS Discover
Primary schools will find these special marksheets and reports incredibly useful when analysing EYFS, KS1 and KS2 results this summer. Updated January 2019 These resources were updated by Capita in January 2019 to include the changes to the PAG groups and national... 
by David Pott | Feb 22, 2019 | Advanced, Analysis, Assessment, Intermediate, Power BI, Training
If you read my article about the SIMS Consolidated Report utility or if you just want to find out about SIMS and Power BI – I’ve developed a free course for you. It’s aimed at school staff with no previous experience of Power BI although you’ll... 
by David Pott | Feb 9, 2019 | Advanced, Analysis, Assessment, Demonstration, Download, KS4 Resources, Performance 8, Primary, Progress 8, Secondary
New analyses with Microsoft Power BI Microsoft Power BI is an analysis tool that allows you to create powerful data visualisations – it’s like Excel on steroids. The BI stands for Business Intelligence and it’s used by many large organisations to... 
by David Pott | Oct 19, 2018 | Analysis, Assessment, Demonstration, Next Generation SIMS, SIMS Next Generation, SIMS Primary
Introduction Last week I met with Graham Cooper and Ben Jones from Capita to talk about progress with SIMS Primary. A few weeks ago I blogged about how quiet progress seemed to be, since the official launch back in January and Graham was keen to update me on recent... 
by David Pott | Sep 7, 2018 | Advanced, Analysis, Assessment, Assessment Without Levels, Intermediate
Hidden away in the summer 2018 release of Capita SIMS was an extra feature that will make the programme of study marksheets much more useful. Since they were introduced in 2015 (as a response to the removal of levels from the curriculum) the programme of study (PoS)... 
by David Pott | Jul 9, 2018 | Analysis, Assessment, Primary
You can now use SIMS to calculate the KS2 value added for your Y6 pupils. This article shows how to do it in simple steps. First, here’s a video to show you how to set up and use the resources: Primary School Accountability In September 2016 the DfE outlined how... 
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