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Spring Census Information
Please forward to the relevant person in School who deals with the School Census for both SIMS and Arbor To run the Spring Census, SIMS must be upgraded to the Autumn version of SIMS 7.202. The version of SIMS can be checked via Help | About SIMS.net on the Homepage...
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas from everyone at Connect-Up we wish you a safe and happy new year! We will be closed on the 24th of December and back on the 4th of January 2022.
Phonics screening check 2021 Autumn Term
Cancellation of the phonics screening check in June 2021 means incoming year 2 pupils did not take the check in year 1. In the 2021 to 2022 academic year, it is statutory for schools to administer a past version of the phonics screening check to year 2 pupils during...
SWC Patch and Fileset required
ESS have informed us that It is not recommended for schools to submit their SWC 2021 return until they have applied:- English Consolidated Database Patch 3 for the Summer Release 2021. All previous patches for the SWC have been withdrawn. Patch 3 will include the...
School Workforce Census
Dear Colleague,We wanted to advise schools that the current fileset for the school workforce census is fileset 1905 or higher. Schools can import fileset 1906 or 1907 if they wish however, they do not contain any updates for the workforce census but do contain all...
English Consolidated Database Patch 1 (Patch 26794) – Schools Census Autumn 2021
English Consolidated Database Patch 1 (Patch 26794) – Schools Census Autumn 2021 – Available via SOLUS3 – IF YOU HAVE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING ISSUES WE WOULD RECOMMEND APPLYING THE PATCH. Issue: The populate from exams routine in Update Post-16 Prior Attainment is...
Fileset 1907
We can confirm fileset 1907 is now available via SOLUS3. The following change required for schools with a post 16 only. School Census Autumn 2021 (State Schools in England) SIMS XML content file – updated to ensure that the following two prior attainment tags...
Company Announcement
School ICT Services Ltd acquires Connect Up Support Services Ltd We are delighted to announce that School ICT Services Ltd (School ICT) has acquired the share capital of Connect Up Support Services Ltd (Connect Up), bringing the Connect Up business under the...
Planned ScholarPack maintenance
Connect-Up have been notified of the following: Next week on Tuesday 1st of June and Wednesday 2nd of June we will be performing some essential maintenance to ScholarPack servers. Access to ScholarPack will be present for most of this period, but you may experience an...
ConnectEd 2021
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