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Attendance

The Sims Attendance module allows you to:

• Print Manual Registration Sheets/OMR Sheets
• Enter Registration/OMR Sheets Data into Attendance
• Print Absence Sheets/OMR Sheets
• Enter Absence Sheet/OMR sheets into Attendance
• Deal with missing Marks and unexplained absences
• Print Reports and Letters.

Attendance Course Outcomes and Outlines

This course will enable users to record Statutory Attendance, making it easier to:

• Produce letters to parents chasing unauthorised absences or lates.
• Create reports for Head Teacher’s Governor’s and EWO’s.
• Produce the DfES return for authorised and unauthorised absences in minutes.
• Print Official Registers
• Create School Prospectus Analysis

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Knowledge Required

This course is for users who have a good working knowledge of the Sims Database.

Useful Reports for Pupil’s Attendance Records

These reports can be used for Pupil’s End of Year Reports to parents.

Select the route:

Reports|Whole Group Student Report|Student Analysis by Attendance Category.

Reports|Whole Group Student Report|Student Analysis by Attendance Code.

Downloads for Hertfordshire Schools

Please be aware of our new guidelines regarding Attendance Codes for Dual Registered Pupils and Exceptional Circumstances which can be read by clicking on the link below:

• Word 2003, 75kb/1 page, 17/01/2012, changes_attendance_codes_d_and_y.doc.doc

Lesson Monitor Reports

• Acrobat pdf, 769kb/30 pages, 25/11/2008, lesson_monitor_reports.pdf

Attendance 7 Training Manual

• Acrobat pdf, 2.2mb/53 pages, 29/05/2009, attendance_7_training_manual.pdf

SITSS Attendance Code Booklet

• Acrobat pdf, 898kb/11 pages, 21/06/2006, s626.pdf

Adding an Exceptional Circumstance

To enter your exceptional circumstances within Sims .net go to Focus > Attendance > Exceptional Circumstance. For further details please see the document below.

• Acrobat pdf, 52kb/2 pages, 24/06/2011, creating_an_exceptional_circumstance.pdf

Fire Drill

• RptDef file, 16kb, 01/09/2010, fire_drill.RptDef

• Acrobat pdf, 201kb/5 pages, 06/09/2010, fire_drill_document.pdf

Children Looked After Attendance

• Executable, 344kb, 14/10/2011, cla_sender.msi

• RptDef file, 17kb, 14/09/2011, hcc_children_looked_after_attendance.RptDef

• Acrobat pdf, 422kb/14 pages, 14/09/2011, cla_attendance_instructions.pdf
• Acrobat pdf, 139kb/3 pages, 14/10/2011, installing_the_new_cla_sender.pdf

Defining and maintaining Early Years Provision

• Acrobat pdf, 457kb/9 pages, 12/01/2011, defining_and_maintaining_early_years_provision.pdf