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This one day session is designed for all staff working directly with autistic pupils, including teachers, teaching assistants and lunchtime staff.

This training will broaden your understanding of autism and provide you with tools and strategies for everyday use in the classroom.

The SIMS conference in the afternoon splits into two separate workshops/presentations. If you book on this one, you will be directed to the Assessment event.

SIMS Assessment

Save time and money with SIMS assessment and the South Glos. IMS team resources.

Meeting both statutory requirements and local strategies the IMS team can provide you with the tools for quick and easy assessment recording and analysis in SIMS. The SIMS Assessment module is included in the annual entitlement of your SIMS package and our standard resources are incl ...

SIMS Finance is CAPITA’s new financial management solution for MATs which provides academies or multi-academy trusts with a streamlined, complete and consolidated picture of their finances.

Finance officers from MATS and business managers generally wishing to learning about this new product may wish to attend.

The product will become available for maintained schools over the next 12 months and may appeal to schools currently using SIMS FMS.

Cost: £50 - One delegate per school – no charge to schools who subscribe to t ...

The SIMS conference in the morning this year will focus on:

• SIMS – next generation which will look at developments towards the SIMS cloud based version which will be rolled out to primary schools over the next two years and secondary sites in subsequent years.


• Power Bi dashboards - to support SIMS graphical data analysis supporting school self-evaluation


• Parental Engagement solutions in SIMS – notably the SIMS Parent App and how this can support schools’ engageme ...

• An overview of working activities involving risk of injury from working at height


• Actual cases & examples of criminal & civil litigation


• The occurrence of bad practice in the workplace


• Legal responsibilities and HSE video guidance for;

- Planning work at height (appropriate for managers, team leaders, supervisors and operatives)
- The actual need for supervision of work at height
- Organising work at height, including selection of most appropriate (safe) equipment
- Selection of appropriate access equipment and ne ...

We will be covering Speech, Language and Communication Needs, Good
practice in Early Years and Accessibility/Managing Children with Physical
Disability and Medical needs.

Guest Speakers will be:

Elizabeth Fox - Speech and LanguageTherapist, SW lead, C&D Independent Speech &
Language Therapy

Linda Boyce Special Needs Advisor (PD) and pdnet Champion

SENCos may book on the date that suits them best.

An agenda will be sent after the half term break via email.

This course aims to help administrative staff get the most from their SIMS system in terms of productivity and efficiency. We will look at maintaining a tidy database by removing duplicates. Also covered will be methods of internal communication within SIMS, creation of tailored User Defined Fields as well as other time saving hints like setting up shortcuts within SIMS .net.

In this session you will consider:

• The range and nature of needs in your classrooms


• Strategies and approaches that will support children


• Sources of information and support.

In this experiential workshop you will find out what causes stress, the results of stress, recognise internal and external stressors, and look at positive ways of dealing with stress. We take a look at anger as an emotion, and contributor to stress, and how to manage anger in a constructive way. Finally we look at the importance of
mindfulness in support of wellbeing and will experience some relaxation exercises.

The course consists of two separate sessions, am & pm - delegates should attend for the whole day.

The Special Education Needs (SEN) software in SIMS enables the SENCo to manage the recording of all aspects of the SEN process in accordance with the requirements of the code of practice, building on information already held in SIMS such as pupil addresses, contacts and academic information and also enables the recording of the details of external specialists and organisations.