by David Pott | Sep 18, 2020 | Assessment, Primary
For SIMS primary schools in England and Wales there is a free, robust and easily learned assessment system that is already installed with SIMS Assessment Manager. Here’s what it can do. In my next blog post I will show you how to get the system up and running in... 
by David Pott | May 4, 2020 | Assessment
Readers of this blog will know that Power BI is a powerful tool for analysing school data. But for those with responsibility for data across a multi-academy trust (MAT) the gulf between what Power BI promises and what we can deliver, given time-constraints and... 
by David Pott | Jan 7, 2020 | Advanced, Analysis, Assessment, Power BI
In this article, I’ll show you how Power BI can create drillable graphs based on terms, academic years and the days of the week. Edit: There’s lots of really useful comments at the bottom of this article and I do recommend you read them. Whenever we... 
by David Pott | Dec 7, 2019 | Assessment
The Programme of Study marksheets (PoS) are a great way to record formative assessments against the national curriculum. All SIMS schools already have access to this system – there’s no extra charge. Many schools don’t understand how flexible the... 
by David Pott | Dec 4, 2019 | Analysis, Assessment, Power BI
After a first page that should consist of the most important ‘headline’ measures for a school, the next page in any SIMS + Power BI report is probably attendance. Partly, this is because of it’s importance to schools and partly because it is one of... 
by David Pott | Jun 16, 2019 | Analysis, Assessment, Beginner, Intermediate
Why many schools have ‘official’ and ‘unofficial’ results… I find that schools often have two sets of statistics: the official set of statistics that includes the results of all the pupils who will be included in the year’s key... 
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