In this course you can learn how FMS operates with a Bank Account.

This course is not suitable for delegates from an independent school.

This course covers the end of year procedures and provides you with an opportunity to consider, prior to year end, the areas that will support the smooth closure of the accounts. It does not cover the Consistent Finance Return (CFR) procedures.

This one day course covers the end of year procedures required within FMS, with reference to the Consistent Finance Return (CFR) where appropriate.

SIMS Financial Management System (FMS) covers the full range of accounting functions required by schools, whether they run their own accounts locally or have their finances managed centrally by their Local Authority. FMS is a finance package that runs separately to SIMS but which can be linked to gain information from SIMS.

FMS can record all order and invoice information for suppliers, recording budgets and commitments along with cash book transactions, petty cash and general journals. It also produces cheque runs and bank reconciliations along with all the period end/year end procedures. It can also store and calculate salary information using SIMS as well as produce sales invoices and record equipment and Assets.

Lesson Monitor provide schools with an integrated classroom and administration tool to monitor students’ attendance and behaviour.
The Lesson Monitor module in a Secondary is used both to record statutory registration and lesson attendance.
Lesson Monitor can help schools reduce truancy and improve safeguarding, while monitoring behaviour trends in the classroom, facilitating early intervention where necessary.

This course explores the reporting capabilities of Lesson Monitor which can provide senior leaders with access to real-time information and help them to analyse and monitor student attendance.

A school’s management information system (MIS) holds a vast amount of data, which if accurately maintained can be used to inform school improvement strategies and support a wide range of school management activities including processing statutory returns.
The school office is the hub of day-to-day pupil data management. Using typical scenarios encountered on a regular basis, this course takes a new user through the main procedures for maintaining accurate and useful data within the school’s MIS.

The school office is the hub of day-to-day pupil data management. Using typical scenarios encountered on a regular basis this course covers procedures for adding new pupils, leavers and importing/exporting Common Transfer Files (CTFs).

This course is intended to help schools create an Options Plan, offer course selections to students online and create a solution that helps to satisfy the students' choices.

This course explores the production of existing reports and the design of custom reports to support the analysis of personnel data.