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Closing date extended to 15/07

We're looking for an IT Technician at Valley Park School in Maidstone, Kent. All details at the website below: https://www.valleypark.viat.org.uk/2212/vacancies/careers/60/it-technician

Thank you everyone, it's good to get a consensus on these things. I'm sure it's not unusual for a lot of schools, however we've not been around for long enough for it to have been a regular occurence in the past!

Hello all, I have the unusual situation of an ex student now being added on SIMS as the parent of a new student. In this case would you link the existing contact from their student days, as the parent record for the new student? Or would you create a new contact for the parent?

Thanks guys, I thought this would be the case. HR seem OK with putting the employment dates in now, so hopefully they can make it part of their procedure for adding new staff in SIMS.

We have numerous staff who have joined us through Schools Direct, or on a long term agency cover basis who don't appear as "Current Staff" in SIMS. HR have added them with a Service Agreement only, but no employment start date. Is this a normal way to handle staff in these situations? It's frustrating that they don't appear in searches for current staff. Would there be anything stopping them from having employment dates as well as service agreements? Or would this make the workforce census records incorrect, as we'd have more employees listed than we really have?

Hello We're looking for an ICT technician. You must complete an application form to apply. Full details are here: Vacancies - Valley Park School Chris

Valley Park School is looking for an ICT Technician Details here: Vacancies - Valley Park School Pay scale: £17,714 to £19,742 per annum, full time.

I'm just wondering whether other schools use SIMS in the same way as us... Staff leavers kept in SIMS as current staff to keep their timetable in SIMS, so that it can be assigned to cover. Until they have permanent replacements then we can't delete the old teachers apparently. Given that we have a seemingly constant stream of staff leaving and a slightly less constant stream of new staff joining, our SIMS staff database will never actually be up to date! Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks guys. In the end our LA support company advised to select 3 updates (SIMS Autumn, SIMS database 114 and SIMS database 118) to install together. In the end the SIMS server agent was the problem, the GUID didn't match between the agent installed and that in the database. Once that was fixed the updates started going through no problem.

Yes, it's another SOLUS 3/Autumn update thread! We're still on Summer 2, do we need to install SIMS Database 2013 Autumn (3.62.114) first or can we skip straight to SIMS Database 2013 Autumn (3.62.118)? I tried installing .114 and got the "Tolerance not met for target SIMS Database" error after half an hour. I just noticed in the "SOLUS3 Agents" section that our SIMS server is showing a message "Warning - an unknown agent on this machine has attempted contact", it says Offline and that it has Agent version 3.4.118, even though the agent on the machine says it's on 3.6.94. I can't uninstall SOLUS3 agent on the SIMS server, so how do I fix this? Is this what's causing my problems with the database upgrade?

Hello all, We are currently advertising for an ICT Technician to join us. The vacancy details are here: Valley Park School - ICT Technician Vacancy Closing date is Friday 25 May 2012. Any questions feel free to ask via PM or this thread. If you know of anyone else that would be interested in applying, please inform them of the vacancy. Chris

Good to know! I've been looking at prices online for a rough guide, but I'll definitely talk to you (Millgate) amongst others closer to the time.

Ok that's probably a good thing anyway, likely it's not about to be discontinued or anything like that. Currently we have an 8 module switch but realistically I think we'd only need to fill 4 of the modules at least initially so we'd have consider whether the larger chassis was worth the extra cost. 36 fibre modules? Can I ask why you need so many? We only have 6 currently to travel between buildings. While I'm on the topic, does anyone use the 10gigabit modules at all? Is it worth it or overkill for a pretty standard secondary school?

Thanks for the replies so far. Given that we use our switch for routing, I think I can rule out the 4xxx series in our case. @Millgate thanks for the offer but I'm not quite at that stage yet - our next budget will start in September. I will however keep you in mind for closer to the time if I can convince SLT of the need for it. Seems to be a lot of love specifically for the E5406zl, are there any viable alternative models without going through the roof on price?