Iain.Faulkner

Just to echo, you are a total legend for this. Extremely irritating to come in this morning to find Sims not working for us. Don't get me started on Sims forcing us across to NextGen for certain modules, the system is a long way from being ready for proper use.

I think,could be wrong, that they removed it about 6/7 months ago. We'd hoped to deploy it as well. When speaking with classcharts, apparently it will return at some point.

We're hiring for a Senior ICT Technician. Wilmslow High School is a wonderful school and this is a great chance for an experienced Technician to make a step up in a very supportive environment. I'm starting here full time from next week, so you'll be working with me. If you have any questions about the role, please drop me a message. Senior ICT Technician, Cheshire East - Tes Jobs

Of course, drop me a message.

Fair point, I can understand why there could be concerns. They were all genuine reasons for leaving, it's just unfortunate timing that they all came at around the same time. The member of staff that this role is advertising for the replacement for left for a promotion to a Director of IT role, the Senior Technician also left for a promotion at another school.

Just for anyone that's looking for a new role in the new year. I was seconded out to Wilmslow High School, from my Trust role, in November when they lost three members of their IT Team. It's such a brilliant school, great staff an extremely supportive SLT with so much scope to put your stamp on the network in a very large school (2300 students). I think it's rare as well to find this type of role that is on the leadership team. It's a great opportunity for someone. Happy to answer any questions anyone may have, just drop me a message. Senior Leader: ICT & Network Operations, Wilmslow High School - Tes Jobs

Thank you for the suggestion, sadly we spoke to them a while back. They basically told us our kit was worthless and offered us about £1000 for the whole lot

Morning all, I've got a server room full of our old wireless network hardware following a recent connect the classroom project. Rough idea of what we've got - 1 x Cisco 8500 x-Series Wireless Controller 88 x Cisco AIR-CAP2702I-E Access Points 2 x Cisco Catalyst 4500 X-Series Fibre switches – Both 16 port Plus some Cisco Catalyst 2960 X-Series 48 Port PoE All with associated fiber modules and DAC cables where appropriate. It seems such a shame to just dispose of it all as WEEE wastage. Does anyone know of anywhere that might offer us something for them? Thanks everyone

Definitely add the clause about stickers!! We did this project over the last few years and some of them are terrible for stickers!

Yeh we've got schools desperate for a refresh. One rural primary school, with only 60 students, and one secondary school desperate for a refresh. But because we're in "leafy" cheshire/derbyshire these schools are always overlooked.

Thank you for that, I'm currently doing the online payment training course.

Morning all, We moved our Trust across to Bromcom mid way through last year, I will be brutally honest and say that it hasn't been a popular move for a multitude of reasons not all of which are Bromcom's fault. We're looking to make moves to bring a few more of our services into Bromcom and I was hoping to speak with other Schools/Trusts about how they have found using Bromcom for payments (replacing ParentPay), Trips (to replace Evolve), Data Analysis (to replace 4Matrix/Sisra) and lunch ordering for Primary Schools (to replace Cypad). Just looking to see how you find it, is it a working solution that will replace these third party apps, have you had any issues with the initial setup and ongoing usage etc and any advice on how best we roll these out. Thank you all

We've been using Senso for a few years, and I would say that this is a very accurate description of our experience with Senso as a product and their support team.

Also happy to have a chat, just drop me a PM

I'd second this about ParentPay. They were truly dreadful with us, I think for one of our Primary schools it was nearly 12 weeks before they managed to do everything that was needed.