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... 
by David Pott | Jun 5, 2019 | Assessment, Beginner, Intermediate, Power BI, Primary
Primary schools using SIMS must sometimes feel like the Cinderellas of the assessment world. Most of the new resources created by Capita tend to focus on secondary schools. But Capita SIMS have just released a new primary school assessment system that comprises a set... 
by David Pott | May 10, 2019 | Beginner, Demonstration, Power BI, Training
If you have been using Power BI to create data visualisations for primary schools, you’ve probably run in to this problem: you want the x axis of your graph to run from nursery through reception to year 1 and then to year 6, but Power BI insists on alphabetical... 
by David Pott | Mar 6, 2019 | Assessment, Beginner, Primary, Secondary, Training
It always amazes me how many school jobs require SIMS experience. But if you want a job in a school you need SIMS experience, but to get SIMS experience you need a job in a school! It’s a Catch-22 situation, made all the harder because as a priviate individual,... 
by David Pott | Dec 8, 2017 | Assessment, Beginner, Training
Earlier this year Capita release a new module for SIMS. Called SIMS Interventions it helps schools to record the interventions that schools put in place for their pupils. It also helps schools to record the associated costs and link those costs directly to pupil... 
by David Pott | Dec 8, 2017 | Assessment, Beginner, Primary, Secondary
When you are analysing your assessment data it can be useful to know how many pupils joined and left a particular year group as the cohort progresses through school. This report will list every pupil who was ever in the cohort, regardless of how long they stayed with... 
Comments