Streamline your day. Speed up admin tasks. Reclaim your time.
If you work in a school office, you know the juggling act - managing absences, updating records, printing timetables, answering calls... and that’s all before 10am.
SIMS Next Gen is built for you. With a fresh, intuitive design, it’s easy to pick up, quick to navigate, and built to save you time. No training needed.
Here are 10 modules making life easier for school office teams today. If you haven’t logged in yet, now’s the perfect time to take a look.
1. Seating Plans
Quickly create and save reusable room layouts for any classroom setup. Ideal for planning cover lessons, SEND arrangements, or exam settings – no more starting from scratch every time.
2. Staff Profile
View and update key staff information — including roles and responsibilities, working patterns, contact details, and absence status — all in one place.
3. Staff Absences
Track past, present, and future absences in one clear view. Record reasons, set follow-up actions, and manage attendance thresholds without switching screens.
4. Staff Timetables Calendar
See full staff timetables in a visual calendar format and view multiple timetables side-by-side. Perfect for planning cover or checking availability at a glance.
5. Pupil Profile
All your key pupil information in one place. From contact details and medical needs to consents and SEND/ALN - everything you need, just a click away.
6. Pupil Timetable
Access a full timetable for any pupil directly from their Pupil Profile or Class View - with the option to print whenever you need it.
7. Fire Registers
View school-wide fire registers, identify and update missing pupils, and quickly search for and update individual attendance records.
8. Custom Groups
Create and manage pupil cohorts for interventions, communications, and reporting. Bulk assign or edit groups with just a few clicks.
9. Conduct Management
Log behaviour incidents, exclusions, or suspensions - with guided steps that show only the fields you need, based on the situation. Configure events to capture the right information at the right time and made mandatory based on the severity level.
10. Coming Soon: Attendance Management
Live with early adopter schools, and launching in July, this new module will bring all attendance tasks into one place - including registers, absence logging, holiday requests, and more. Bulk messaging to parents will follow in October.
Ready to claim back hours every week?
Log into SIMS Next Gen today and take a look around — or speak to your support team for a quick demo.
Thousands of SIMS users are making the switch from SIMS7 to SIMS Next Gen. Don’t miss out on the time-saving tools built just for you.