 | 20th February What can SIMS.net do for my
school? - a drop in session, aimed at making staff in schools aware of
the features of SIMS.net, will be held at Rochdale CLC (Falinge Park
High School) on Wednesday 2nd March. Further details available by
contacting the EDIT Team. |
| 20th February Procedures for conversion of
primary schools to SIMS.net have now been finalised and remaining
primary and nursery schools will be contacted to invite them on a series
of training sessions in due course. |
| 14th February The first group of 12
primary schools have now been converted to SIMS.net and are to attend
training sessions this week. An e-mail, detailing the processes leading
towards migration will be sent out to remaining schools this week |
| 14th February PLASC processes now
complete. All schools have now submitted an accepted PLASC return. A big
thankyou to all those schools who submitted their returns early this
year and enabled the EDIT Team to focus their efforts on those schools
requiring extra support. |
| 30th January The majority of Rochdale
schools have now submitted a PLASC return. Any school needing support in
completing the return is urged to contact the EDIT team as soon as
possible. |
| 30th January The first group of primary
schools are currently undergoing data checking in preparation for the
migration to SIMS.net. Primary schools should note that there will be no
release of Key Stage Manager this year and that schools wishing to use SIMS
to manage processes will need to be on SIMS.net before the end of May. |
| 30th January The training calendar for the
rest of the term is available
here. |
| 23rd January As was detailed in the e-mail
from Richard Metcalfe earlier this week, as Eid fell on the 20th January
this year. Schools should record the number of free school meals served
on a typical day where Eid has affected the number served on the 20th
January. |
| 23rd January The team is delighted to
announce that all Rochdale Secondary and Special Schools are now fully
migrated to SIMS.net. The team are now in a position to begin the
migration of Primary schools to the new software. |
| 23rd January The PLASC bug fixes have now
been applied to all primary school SIMS systems. Schools will note that
they may now record more than 99 aggregate hours in the non-teacher area of the PLASC return. |
| 23rd January Notes on the configuration of
workstations for use with SIMS.net are available
here. |
| 23rd January Autumn term news items now
moved to the News Archive page. |
| 8th January PLASC bug fixes. A number of
issues have come to light in the PLASC routines. In the case of primary
schools, these will require a new version of Data Manager which will be
deployed via the Rochdale Schools Network and schools will not notice
any difference. In the case of Special Schools, the required fixes will
be applied at the time of migration and no additional action is required
of schools. In the case of Secondary schools, system managers will
receive an upgrade CD which should be applied in the usual way. The
application of this CD (labelled Enhancement Release 3) will bring
schools' systems bang up to date with all the latest PLASC and other
patches. |
| 8th January The Team is pleased to
announce that all Rochdale secondary schools are now running the new
SIMS.net suite of software. This means that the team is now free to
begin the process of migrating all other Rochdale schools. This process
will begin with Nursery and Special schools with primary schools
programmed for the remainder of the term. Schools who previously
expressed an interest in piloting the new software will be afforded
priority and will be contacted soon. The team apologises for the delay
in the deployment of SIMS.net which has been due to factors outside our
control. |
| 8th January EDIT Team Now at full strength
- Following a series of successful appointments, the EDIT Team has been
joined by the several new members of staff and all agency staff have
been released and no longer have any association with the team - for
further details see the EDIT Team
Profile page. |
