Purpose: Important Information
Audience: Primary Schools,
Nursery Schools, Special Schools, Pupil Referral
Units
The Year End Notes for SIMS are now on the Portal on the SIMS .net planet which is accessed via the SIMS home page. There is a tick sheet at the
back of the notes for you to complete as you work your way through the
steps
Schools should by now have started
preparations for the next school year in SIMS .net. It is essential
that the next academic year has been added, any changes to registration groups
made and the promotion process run before the end of this academic year
(usually 31/8/09). Once these procedures have been carried out, on the first
day of the new academic year students will be moved automatically into their
new Year Groups, Registration Groups and Classes.
Should you require any further assistance please contact the Helpline
on Tel: 0845 0450973
School
Workforce Census
Purpose: Significant
change to DCSF guidance
Audience: Headteachers,
Principal Administrators, Census contacts
Purpose: Registration
Information
Audience: Headteachers
Please note important dates
and venues for your diary - 09:30 -15:00 - 2 free places per school - programme details will be available shortly.
17th November 2009 - Buckden
Millennium Centre
18th November 2009 - Oliver
Cromwell, March
25th November 2009 -
CPDC
Please note we are unable to accept bookings over the
phone. You may call to check availability on
telephone 01480 376670 or email: ict.courses@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
, unfortunately no places can be provisionally
booked.
CTF Import Tool
upgrade
Purpose: QLA Information
Audience: Primary Headteachers and Assessment Leaders
RAISEonline’s CTF Import Tool has
been upgraded to allow upload of CTFs for use in Question Level Analysis (QLA)
for end-of-year tests in
2009.
What does this mean?
CTFs created this academic year (08/09) will follow the rules
below:
QLA
- Pupils will be imported into this academic year
(2008/09)
Target
setting remains
unaffected.
Key Stage 2 validated in Full
Reports
The Full
Report for schools with KS2 results has now been updated to reflect the
validated 2008 KS2 data released in interactive reports on 28th May.
The
validated data release incorporates approved changes to the data that may have
been requested as part of the DCSF Achievement and Attainment tables checking
exercise for schools with pupils at Key Stage 2. This data set may not reflect
the outcome of any late or ongoing appeals.
The
RAISEonline Full Report can be downloaded from the homepage. It is a static
document containing a range of contextual and attainment reports relating to
your school which will also be used by Ofsted inspectors to inform the
pre-inspection briefing.
Key Stage 3 Data
In
October 2008, the Secretary of State announced significant changes to the
school assessment and accountability system, including the end of compulsory
Key Stage 3 tests
Subsequently, and following representations from head teachers, he
decided not to proceed with collating and publishing Key Stage 3 performance
tables at the school-level for 2008, as to do so would place an unnecessary
burden on secondary schools. Therefore, 2008 Key Stage 3 data will not be released into
RAISEonline
