Courses continue in the Summer Term 2009 for the School Workforce Census, for all non-pilot schools. Non-pilot schools will need to make their first return in October 2009, ready for full implementation in January 2010. ITASS will book schools on to these courses.

The new Dinner Money 7 software for primary schools should be released in June 2009. Tamsyn Murray will arrange for a group of schools to pilot the new software, and she will book schools on to the training course.

All other courses are open to schools to book your own places. These include courses for new users of Pupil Records, SEN, Personnel 7, FMS, Attendance 7, Assessment Manager, and School Census. There are also short courses in selected areas of FMS, and full-day courses in MS Office products.

All schools are advised to consider a refresher course in SIMS .net End of Year procedures and/or Dinner Money End of Year Procedures. Courses are also available for new and existing users about processing End of Key Stage results in Assessment Manager.

The termly IMS User Group meeting for admin staff in primary, nursery and special schools is on Thursday 7 May 2009. You are asked to book a place for this in the same way as for training courses, so that we know numbers in advance.

The programme of training for Address Management is still not confirmed, pending the resolution of software issues.

View our training courses.