A continuous multi-year programme of customer driven innovation, designed to add-value to your investment in SIMS. Discover the next generation of school MIS.

SIMS Next Gen

SIMS Next Gen for school leaders

Making every day easier

In today's fast-paced educational landscape, school leaders face significant challenges in managing operations and maximising resources. SIMS Next Gen is designed to streamline critical tasks, providing innovative, cloud-based management tools that enhance operational efficiency. By embracing SIMS Next Gen functionality, you can make your funding go further, ensuring every pound is well spent.

Additionally, SIMS Next Gen boosts staff morale and aids retention by equipping your team with the best tools for the job. With SIMS Next Gen, school leaders can focus on strategic decision-making, fostering an environment where both staff and students thrive.

Improving operational efficiency

Streamline your school's administrative tasks and enhance efficiency with our new and improved Next Gen modules.

Driving student success

Support student achievement with data-driven insights and tailored interventions that promote academic excellence.

Retaining high-quality staff

Attract and retain top talent with efficient management tools, creating a supportive environment for educators.

Do you lead a Multi-Academy Trust?

SIMS Next Gen streamlines administrative tasks, enhances data-driven decision-making, and fosters collaboration across your trust. With robust features and real-time insights, it's the ultimate tool to support your strategic goals and drive educational excellence.

Discover SIMS Next Gen for Multi-Academy Trusts

Attendance reporting

As part of our SIMS Next Gen evolution, we've collaborated with our customers to dive deep into attendance reporting. We're excited to launch a suite of five highly configurable reports this term, designed to streamline the entire attendance reporting process.

These ultra-flexible reports allow schools to compare various configurations in one place, eliminating the need to download multiple reports.

Our product team invested significant time with customers to understand their needs and preferences for data segmentation and display. This feedback has shaped our new reports, ensuring they offer built-in flexibility to meet customer demands and save time.

School reporting

This autumn term (2024), we are introducing a comprehensive range of reports and visualisations designed to empower schools in making critical decisions about student safety, welfare, and learning potential.

With easy-to-understand visuals, educators can quickly grasp complex data and make informed decisions to enhance the overall learning environment. Our goal is to equip schools with the necessary resources to ensure every student reaches their full potential in a safe and supportive setting.

Coming autumn 2024.

Download the brochure for all the features of SIMS Next Gen

"It is more efficient; it is quicker for me to analyse the attendance and contact any parents or families if needed to."

Emma Pascoe, School Secretary , Weston Primary School

“Since we started using FMS Reporting we have noticed the simplified navigation and modern look, as well as how easy it is to use. We are able to benefit from the new online reporting option which is a lot easier to understand and work with. We now have the ability to easily filter information within the reports as well as export all reports to all current file formats with no re-formatting required, saving valuable time.”

Danny Stenhouse, Business Manager, Heygarth Primary

"We were very quick to move to Next Gen when the opportunity presented itself and we've found ourselves thoroughly impressed. Teachers quickly warmed up to Next Gen once they experienced its speed and simplicity first-hand. From a technical standpoint, the transition to Next Gen in classrooms has been seamless. This shift has not only streamlined daily tasks but with Next Gen being the primary system across 90% of our computers, has also allowed for easier and quicker software upgrades and maintenance. Overall, we are very happy with what we have seen from Next Gen so far and looking ahead we're excited to explore other available features."

Mark Simpson, ICT Network Manager, Newport CE Primary School

That’s just the start

We’re investing £40m in SIMS Next Gen - our management information system for the cloud. Our multi-year programme of innovation will be complete by the end of 2026.

View our roadmap to see what’s available now and what’s coming.

Are you interested in learning more about SIMS Next Gen?

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