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Northern Sands I think that we all, in essence, agree with you about training and support. Marvellous that you have managed the all through aspect, it is the way that some academies are going. Tough to do when they are all starting afresh at once. All teachers will benefit from seeing other sectors of provision, they just have to take a deep breath and . . .jump in!

Hi Within the parents details there should be a correspondence box, only tick this if it is for an non resident parent (all resident parents want correspondence so the majority of parents do not need this ticked). You can then run a report for all those parents who are non resident. It works!

Dear Klop Make sure you have enough time to train people, choose a year group to do dry runs before going live. Attendance by SLG is none starter for all the schools I have worked in. Be ready with laminated guides (how to.... to stick on all the walls next to the computers. Laptops bring their own problems with family use at home and no up to date antivirus. Be sure you have someone in school who knows about academic management, T6 and alternative curriculum.

Are you working in a secondary school? you can configure homepages just for head of house that will pick up their pastoral role from pastoral structure, so they only see their house details. If you are in an independent school, try it as well! Scheduled reports are great but guess where they pick up the reminder from - the home page!! Vegetarian but dont hold it against me!

I think that schools do not see the cost involved when not using sims in the classroom. Primary schools are very conservative when dealing with IT and data with certain staff making decisions that they are really not in a position to make.Schools can save hundreds of pounds in paper, many hours of valuable SLT time and engage parents so much easier by adapting electronically - the teachers themselves spend hours collecting data that is already on the system. By keeping staff at arms length from the data, office staff are implying that teachers are not professional and are incapable of maintaining a simple database. But how many of the teachers have bank accounts, have mortgages and shop on line. Keep trying to crack this intrangience, it is well recorded that when teachers have a shared ownership of data, the pupils' level of achievement increases, parental involvement increases and the school itself raises standards.