Independent schools introduction

At Capita we have forged close links with many bursars, director of studies and head teachers in more than 500 Independent schools in the UK and over 30 countries world wide.

This has given us a unique insight into the challenges independent schools face and enables us to focus on developing products and services that help them achieve the things that are important to them, such as simplifying the admissions process, to the analysis of pupil achievement and managing pupil fees and school finances.

Committed to supporting all schools we can help to:

Manage finances and resources

• Simplify the process of managing your school’s finances and budget planning, ensuring all your resources are utilised effectively.
• Payments for school trips or extra-curricular activities can be made online, saving time for school office staff and offering parents more choice.

Simplify the way your school manages pupil fees

• Annual, termly and interim invoicing for school fees, trips or exams can be generated at a click of a mouse.
• Detailed records of payers’ accounts can be stored and analysed so you can keep up to date with the status of your fees debtors as information stored.
• Maintain control of your school’s cash flow by enabling you to process school fee payments and refunds quickly through direct debit transfer.

Ensure admissions are easy to manage in your school

• Record and monitor each step of the allocation of school places to ensure your school’s admissions are completed efficiently.
• Pupils are automatically selected who best fit your selection criteria.

• Pupil achievement or incidents of poor behaviour can be recorded for individual pupils or groups directly onto the register as the lesson is taking place.
• See at first glance how pupils have performed in previous lessons that day or that week
• Record attendance simply so that teachers can be kept fully informed of their pupils’ whereabouts throughout the school day.

Raise standards throughout your school

• You can make use of the information your school records on SIMS each day to inform better decision-making and raise standards across your school.
• Ensure your school’s information is always up to date and easily accessible to those that need it with our SIMS management information system.

• A complete record of assessment grades and homework marks can be stored electronically enabling you to track each pupil’s progress easily and accurately measure the success of teaching strategies.
• Manage the whole examinations process - entering candidates for assessment, sending coursework to the examinations board, forecasting pupils’ grades and receiving exam results online.
• Enable teachers to engage pupils with more personalised anytime, anywhere learning.
• Professional, constructive pupil reports can be completed in no time to strengthen home-school links.
• Parents can be kept informed of their child’s progress via the web so that they can provide better support at home.

Efficient curriculum and timetable planning

• You can organise classes easily for GCSE options, grouping students of similar ability in classes of the optimum size for the subject being taught.
• Enable teachers to organise and print students’ timetables effortlessly, ensuring there is no clash in subject classes.

Don’t take our word for it.