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Good evening all, I've always wondered if there is an official calculation to work out attendance summary data? For example, I'm not entire sure how SIMS calculates the % attendance for the entire school. I've tried to manually calculate this in the past and then compared it with the summary data SIMS reports and it's a little off. We now have Go4Schools and that displays a summary but it also states underneath the figures "* Please note - the attendance statistics include school leavers who are not included in the on roll count." So does SIMS also include leavers into the overall cumulative percentage attendance figures? Is there an official calculation? Aaaargh!! There's no transparency! Also, sixth form attendance is not a legal requirement, we take it anyway for fire regs and safe guarding etc but are they included in the whole school summary? Go 4 Schools show a % attendance by year and an overall, which presumably includes years 12 + 13. We're only interested in years 7-11. Is it the end of the world to take years 7,8,9,10 & 11 overall percentages and get the average of them? This is just a random rant, it's not the end of the world. If someone has discovered the official calculation for these summaries, please let me know. *rant over*

Our sixth-formers have study periods. These are added to the option blocks on the model in Nova -T and they appear on student timetables in SIMS. These sessions are not supervised, however they appear on the SIMS register. This means that students appear to be absent because they can't be marked in. If I remove the study periods from the model blocks on Nova-T what impact will this have?

Hi I apologise for my lack of knowledge!! SIMs reporting is new to me I’ve been asked to create a report for students with a social worker who have an unauthorised absence on the day. I want to run the report and (hopefully) it will give me all the students with social workers who have an unauthorised absence. I can only work out how to do it from the start of the school year to the current date not for that day only. I would be grateful for your help Emma

One of my Schools have asked me to look at the possibility of adding in attendance codes for their lessons: 1 - Excellent Effort in Lesson 2 - Fair Effort in lesson 3 - Poor Effort in Lesson I know this is possible in setups and they can be assigned to /\ marks so attendance percentages not affected. My issue is then with reporting this information - when I try and run reports on codes on my test data I can't see these codes? using group reports by code etc. Has anybody else seen a system of using bespoke codes - any help will be appreciated

Some of our students do not follow the full curriculum. They have study periods in the school library whilst their peers continue with their lessons. Is it possible to create a lesson in Nova-T where students from different year groups could all access the library and appear on the SIMS register? We want to be able to use the cover facility in SIMS to cover the sessions - will this work without allocating a named teacher?

I want to export an attendance summary (registration certificate) to send out with the school reports (one per child) this isn’t usually an issue we just print them and sort them however this year all reports are being emailed. Because I am going to be emailing them to parents via a mail merge I need each file individually and I need it to have a logical name. For example it could be Attendance00XXXX (with the 00XXXX being the child’s admission number) or any other unique identifier perhaps YRXSurnameInitial PDFs would be perfect but I will take whatever I can! Is there a magic way to generate this through SIMS to save me a HUGE amount of time? Thanks in anticipation

Hi When I go to Reports > Attendance > Letters > Print Letters, on one particular PC, it comes up with a blank list, but other computers have templates listed. Does anyone know why this is and how to fix it? Thanks Paul

Hi everyone, I am currently going through final stages of testing the SIMS parent app. One of our members of staff also happens to be a parent so she is kindly testing it out for me. One small problem I am having is that the attendance figures shown only seem to go back to the date I managed to setup the parent app service rather than going back to the start of the school term but all the school weeks are showing in the app. If you click on a register mark for one of the previous weeks it just says unavailable. Is there a way to configure the dates for attendance going out of SIMS ? Thanks, Jonny