Partner Exhibition

Blue Hills Software Co. Ltd.

Blue Hills Software has been successfully providing specialised management software and support to thousands of schools for more than 10 years. Our aim is to combine innovative ideas and excellence in practice into practical web-based management applications.

Provision Map Writer is a web-based application for the strategic management of inclusion right across the school. Track money spent and staff hours. Log interventions and pupil involvement. Track outcomes and evaluate progress.

The link with SIMS allows automatic scheduled import of pupil and teacher information.

Bluewave SWIFT

Bluewave SWIFT is a partnership including Bluewave International Ltd, Education Leeds and Leeds City Council.

We have three key deliverables:

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive Quality Standards Framework for schools and Local Authorities.
• Deliver and maintain this Framework through a sustainable IT platform.
• Collaborate with stakeholders in applying the Framework to their own key deliverables.

Working directly with schools and local authorities and focussing on the processes around school improvement, we are bridging the gap between ‘data’ and ‘information’. Our objective is to enable coherent management of these processes, using quantitative data to support qualitative self-evaluation.

HCSS Education Ltd

HCSS currently work with over 50 Local Authorities and are the market leaders for providing multi-year budgeting software to schools. In February, 2008 a ‘link’ module was released enabling users of FMS6 to import data from HCSS’s FPS.Net and FPSadvance.Net software into FMS SQL Server thereby significantly reducing the level of data entry.

HCSS’s FPS.Net and FPSadvance.Net software can be tailored to meet your Local Authority’s LMS delegated scheme, the effect of allocating budgets in 2009/10 can be easily seen in future years. Reports for Governors can be presented either as bar chart/pie charts together with the budgets entered into the software.

A key benefit of HCSS’s FPSadvance.Net software is the ability to link the School Development Plan (SDP) to the budgeting process. Users of FPSadvance.Net have access to a SDP template which enables them to produce a fully costed SDP. Associated costs are automatically fed through to the 5 year financial planning module thereby satisfying DCSF and OFSTED requirements.

Training and software support packages are available.

Micro Librarian Systems Ltd (MLS)

MLS is the UK’s leading supplier of Library and resource management systems to Education and with over 25 years experience and a client base in excess of 11,000 schools you can be assured of excellence and innovation.  In today’s rapidly changing technologically enabled environment MLS have taken great steps through the development of visually engaging and media rich user interfaces as well as learning platform integration to ensure the library is at the heart of the schools learning experience.  MLS offers full integration with SIMS and SIMS Learning Gateway and is Capita’s preferred partner for library automation.

Truancy Call

Truancy Call sends to parents whose children are absent from school, an automated phone call to their landline or mobile phone (in English and a variety of other languages), a text message to their mobile phone and an email. The parents are then required to respond to these messages by the same manner. Should a parent not respond an hour later they will be called again (text messages sent once only) then repeatedly until the parent responds up until 8pm (over a third of parental responses occur between 6-8pm).

Responses from parents are stored next to each pupil for the school to listen to or view. Each parental response is timed, dated and stored indefinitely. Once listened to or viewed on screen, the person operating Truancy Call can add the appropriate attendance code and date the student is expected to return and this is written back on to SIMS Attendance.

Not only does the system provide First Day Contact, it does more. Rather than just sending a one way message which will result in a mass of parents/guardians calling back and clogging up school reception. Truancy Call, allows parents/guardians, as part of the automated phone call, to say a reason for their child’s absence into the phone and should they have received a text message, then they can text the reasons for their child's absence back.

UniServity

The UniServity cLc (connected Learning communities) is the market leading Learning Platform on the BECTA Learning Platform Framework. The UniServity cLc provides a secure social learning environment and tools to enhance learning, collaboration, communication and administration. The cLc serves as a container for favourite Web 2.0 applications, creating safe spaces to empower students and teachers; enabling co-construction; local and global collaboration; authentic learning and formative assessment. The cLc serves circa. 2 million learners and teachers across 21 countries. The cLc places schools in a secure, contained, systemised, pedagogically-sound, sustainable 21st century learning framework.