Search the Community

Hi We are using Sims behaviour in school, and up until now we have always produced reports based on a COUNT of the number of behaviour concerns a pupil has, and our behaviour specialist call up lists of selected types of behaviour, for instance ignoring the concerns that are purely about a pupil forgetting equipment. We have recently decided to use the points system, allocating a greater number of points for harsher behaviour types to collate a better picture of the behaviour or students, however this is causing me some difficulty producing a report of this. I have a report that shows me the total points, in a date range, but when I run it it produces a different row for every behaviour instance a pupil has, so each pupil appears multiple times, and when i ran the report for a form class I received 2100 entries, when all I wanted was each pupil to appear once, with the total points for that time for both behaviour and achievement. Anyone got any ideas how I can do this? I can send/upload the exported report if that helps someone look at it - or i am happy to use a report someone else has created, if someone was so kind. (Couldn't attach as the file extension is not allowed) Thanks Ieuan

Hello, I am trying to come up with a way to track rewards (in our school they are House Points) given by staff and hopefully in the process streamline the data collection for rewards. The SIMs manager in our school say there is not a way to log awards without it counteracting the behaviour points as the two are intrinsically linked but I have spoken to some colleagues who believe it is possible but do not know how. Has anyone else found a similar issue and found a way around it? Thank you!!

Hi, apologies if this has been discussed before but I couldn’t find anything on the forums. From the beginning of this academic year we have reintroduced a house system into school. The students are receiving lots of points which is great, but the problem for us comes to reporting on the points totals, specifically concerning House events. For example, PE run a sports afternoon with various competitions happening. At the end of the afternoon points are awarded to the individual winners, but we also look at the bigger picture when it comes to overall House performance and reward points accordingly to each house. The problem occurs at this point since there is no House entity within SIMS (that I’m aware of) that we can assign the points to. As a work around for this we have decided to award these performance points to the House Captains so we can run reports on overall House points totals monthly/termly etc, but the issue arises when we come to run individual student/form points totals. I know that we can remove the overall points totals from the House Captains individual points totals by filtering out the House Event Achievement Types to give more accurate results. Though this is a simple solution that requires little effort, this solution isn’t liked by the staff in charge of the House system since its open to human errors. ie when entering the awards, choosing the wrong Achievement Type would mean that the filters wouldn’t remove the points from the reports when being run so would therefore give false points totals for the House Captains. We can't be the only school that has come across this problem, so I was hoping if anyone knew of a more elegant solution to this, or can anyone suggest any alternative methods of storing points? Ideally we would like to remove the link of Event House points to individual students and somehow award them directly to the House, but we’ve been searching unsuccessfully for a way to do this for a while. (One crazy idea was to create a fake student entry per House to award the points to, but I put a stop to that because it would affect the census etc.) Any and all ideas are welcome Cheers guys Jon

Hi All Has anyone got JAva,html,asp, flash code that will show house points/atenadance figures etc on a web page We want to put the total figures on a web pages for pupils to see and i want to be able to have some update totals and the graph chart change automatically. Thanks Stuart