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Thanks, that's really helpful, I will PM you in the New Year if that's ok with you.

Registers ARE taken at the beginning of the lesson, everyone in attendance is given a default '2' and any who show outstanding behaviour or poor behaviour have their code changed during/end of lesson. The behaviour features ARE used and from what I can see are used to good effect, as I stated previously SLT believe this is an additional layer of information. I read the article yesterday, I'm not a member of our SLT but that is pretty much the approach they appear to take. I will assume that my original query can't be done.

Thanks for the feedback CAM. It is not being used for AM/PM so there should be no registration issues. Their argument is that even though they are adding a number instead of a '/' it is still recording attendance at lessons, just adding an extra layer of information. The fact that the teacher has given them a number in the lesson means they have attended the lesson and whatever the number is gives an indication of their attitude in lessons. We carry out a similar process for our reports already as yourselves, a staff judgement on the student's attitude to learning included on their report for each subject. I think I will give it up as a bad job. I can extract the information via a report to excel and carry out some analysis that way but hoped I might be able to do it directly within a marksheet. I suppose thinking about it I could do the analysis in excel, create some aspects in SIMS to suit, then import to SIMS. This way I could include on marksheets and reports.

Thanks for that! But our SLT have implemented the above and I'm now left to try and extract the data they require (yes, maybe they should have thought about that before). So wondered if anyone had been through something similar?

I've a feeling this isn't possible but just have to ask Within our SIMS some extra codes have been added that the teachers add for lessons. So for each student, rather than just a '/' or 'L' etc they will add a number depending on behaviour during a lesson i.e. 1 to 4. I have now been asked whether for each student an average of these lesson marks could be calculated over a period of time to include in marksheets. Also whether this average could be included on student individual reports. Has anyone else been down this route?