Harnessing your data to drive improved teaching and learning

Who benefits?

Senior & middle leaders

TeachersGovernors PupilsData managers

Office administrators

SIMS School Improvement Programme for secondary schools

Use your data to identify school improvement priorities

Maximise the return on your MIS investment

Prove the impact of your improvement strategies

Key packages for secondary schools:

Drive improved teaching and learning by ensuring you’re getting the most out of your data Successful school improvement strategies rely on the effective collection and use of data. Data can be your biggest asset throughout the whole process, from self-evaluation to decide upon and implement your strategies, through to monitoring and reviewing the impact of these on pupil outcomes.

The SIMS School Improvement Programme offers bespoke, advanced tools for developing your school’s assessment policy as well as automated reports for sharing the relevant data with your various stakeholders and the support of expert consultants in developing the use of data in your school. All of our SIMS school improvement consultants have worked as senior leaders and have a proven track record of helping schools provide evidence of improvement to parents, governors and Ofsted.

We offer a range of packages which can be tailored to meet the specific needs of your school.

Effective use of SIMS for school improvement

SIMS Data Dashboard

Ensure your school staff always have up-to-date key data at their fingertips with the SIMS Data Dashboard. Data is presented in easily assimilated charts with the functionality to filter, zoom and drill down. These can be customised to meet the different needs of you staff from the senior management team to teachers, ensuring everyone has easy access to the data they need. This powerful automated reporting service allows you to select from a multitude of insightful data dashboards, such as: • Attendance• Absence• Achievement• Behaviour• Key group performance indicators• Progress and Attainment 8• Staff absence.

Gain intelligence from your data to identify school improvement priorities and prove the impact of your strategies on pupil outcomes. An expert consultant will work with you to review how you are currently using your MIS and how best to develop the effective use of data throughout your school in support of whole school improvement and develop an ‘always prepared’ for inspection policy.

You’ll benefit from:• A SIMS strategic development report and action plan providing

personalised recommendations for developing the use of data to better support school improvement

• Insight into how SIMS can support senior leaders, middle leaders and governors

• Follow-up support from your SIMS school improvement consultant.

Governors

Ensure your school governors have access to the data they need from SIMS, including key performance indicators, attendance, behaviours and academic progress as well as continual professional development and target setting against Ofsted criteria. This package will develop governors’ skills in the analysis of data so that they can not only challenge school leaders, but also support the school in meeting its school improvement priorities.

Self-evaluation

School improvement is most successful when there is a balance of internal self-evaluation and external review. Our consultants take an objective view and evaluate both quantitative and qualitative performance measures. The day provides an opportunity for a thorough review of the school’s approach to self-evaluation, monitoring and performance management using SIMS to provide evidence. There is also a focus on how different areas of SIMS can be used to identify the impact of intervention strategies, as well as the school’s strengths and priorities for development.

Secondary assessment packages:

FREE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT WEBINARS

Key Stage 3 assessment without levels

Key Stage 4 assessment

Expert support in developing your school’s Key Stage 3 assessment without levels policy. You’ll benefit from bespoke data collection and analysis tools and reports that will provide insight into pupil attainment and progress for groups, classes and individuals. This package includes either:• adaptions/edits to the standard Programmes

of Study resources, or,• a bespoke system of marksheets/templates

in SIMS Assessment.

A consultant will work with you to review and develop your school’s Key Stage 4 assessment policy, putting in place resources which allow you to easily analyse key measures of accountability for senior leaders, middle leaders and teachers. You’ll also receive a comprehensive range of analytical reports through which you can navigate to view data for the whole school as well as individual departments at the click of a button. Training for senior and middle leaders on the new resources is provided within this package.

Why not sign up to take part in a free webinar to gain insight into how you can use SIMS to evidence the impact and outcomes of a range of school improvement strategies. For a list of topics visit www.capita-sims.co.uk/sip

An adapted Programmes of Study marksheet

A report from SIMS analysing accountability measures in the same format as RAISEOnline.

“The support that we have had from the SIMS consultants has been fantastic, it has allowed our academy to improve how we gather data but more importantly how we use that data to identify the students that need the greatest support.”

Kelly Moggs, Head of Administration/Exams Officer The Ockendon Academy and Studio School

An expert consultant will work with you to develop your school’s assessment policy in accordance with current best practice.

Examples of bespoke tools:

Want to know more about the School Improvement Programme?

Telephone: 0800 170 1724

Email: info@capita-sims.co.uk

Web: www.capita-sims.co.uk

Who benefits and how?

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SENIOR & MIDDLE LEADERS Access expertise and bespoke tools to improve tracking, monitoring, assessment and communication of the impact of your school improvement strategies on pupil outcomes. Get more from your investment in your MIS to achieve greater cost-effective use of your data systems.

GOVERNORS Gain access to the performance data you need to effectively set targets and monitor and evaluate progress.

DATA MANAGERSUse bespoke tools and automated, scheduled reporting to improve the quality of the data you share with your stakeholders whilst saving valuable time.

TEACHERS Understand how to use SIMS to take increased ownership of your data and inform your planning whilst also saving classroom time.

PUPILS Timely feedback from assessment data with clear next steps for learning.

OFFICE ADMINISTRATORSUp-to-date information that can be used to inform parents and carers as well as teaching staff.

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“The school improvement team have been integral in allowing us to look at data with a different perspective. The data it produces informs so many decisions in our school. The school improvement team have been a real help to channel the way we do things in our school and we’re now doing that with the primary schools too. Their experience is invaluable.”

Tina Sparrow, Data Manager, Passmores Academy