Course Overview

This course bundle covers preparing the school's pastoral and academic arrangements necessary for the new academic year.

The course will take approximately 7-8 hours to complete.


What will you learn?

This course bundle will cover:

  • setting the academic year
  • creating academic structures in the new academic year
  • allocating students to bands and classes
  • printing timetables from SIMS
  • creating the new academic year
  • making pastoral structure adjustments
  • performing the pastoral promotion
  • new intake routines including importing ATF and CTF files
  • process leavers
  • general housekeeping.

Course Bundle

SIMS Preparing for a New School Year Secondary (Part 1 Pastoral)

The course can be purchased in separate parts or as a bundle. Part 1 covers all pastoral related tasks for the new academic year

School ICT

School ICT

£85

SIMS Preparing for a New School Year Secondary (Part 2 Academic)

The course can be purchased in separate parts or as a bundle. Part 2 covers effective management of curriculum tasks for the new year.

School ICT

School ICT

£85

Will I get a certificate? 

On Completion of the course you can claim a School ICT certificate of course completion.


How long do I have access to the course? 

You will have a year to complete the course.  


How much is this course?

£130 exclusive of VAT


How do I purchase the course?

To purchase this course via your school/organisation you can pay by invoice. Please E-mail: [email protected] specifying if you have a purchase order and which course(s) you wish to purchase.  We require the name and address of the person paying for the course. If you are in a school this may be your Finance department. If you are purchasing a course for another member of staff, we will also need their name for the certificate and their email address to enroll them on the course. The student will receive an email once the course is available to access.

To purchase this course privately you can pay by bank transfer. Please contact our Finance team on 0345 2226802 to make a bank transfer. The course will be accessible on receipt of payment. We need your full name and an email address to enroll you on the course.  

Terms of usage.

  • Courses will be accessible for 12 months from the date of purchase.
  • Once access has been granted to distance learning, no refund will be given.
  • Under no circumstances should the course content be downloaded, copied or shared with other schools.
  • Under no circumstances should your access details be shared.
  • Support queries should be directed to [email protected]


Please see our FAQ page for more information.