International schools
No matter where your school is located in the World, you can still provide everything expected from the best of British education.

As an international independent school you have all the challenges of your UK counterparts plus many more.

The challenges and opportunities

You are striving to provide an exceptional British education and marry it with the culture, language, traditions and perhaps even the curriculum of another country.

 Your pupils come to you from a variety of backgrounds and with a number of different educational goals. It is vital that you are able to deliver learning that meets their expectations and those of their parents. This may involve offering a combination of UK qualifications and others, such as the IGCSE and International Baccalaureate programmes.

Parents expect to be updated on their children’s progress even when they are in a different country or time zone.

Pastoral care of your pupils needs to be handled delicately and effectively to account for different cultures and faiths.

The SIMS answer

Now imagine you have a management system that can give you an at a glance picture of every child in your school with details of their education history, academic goals and family situation; a system that can track progress and drive achievement in multiple curriculums and share the relevant data with parents online at any time.  SIMS is such a system and will help you meet the challenges that you face.

“Because SIMS is so widely used in the UK it is immediately familiar to most of our new international teachers. It is so flexible you can automate and integrate many of the tasks undertaken by teachers and administrators every day. This reduces workload and at the same time makes us more efficient, effective and professional." Shaun Williams, Principal, British International School, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

SIMS is the most popular management information system with international independent schools from Africa to Vietnam.

• A snapshot of school performance
  Place yourself at the controls of the flight deck for your school. At your fingertips will be a display showing actual performance against targets for achievement, attendance and behaviour. This information helps you ask the right questions and make better decisions on the issues that matter to you.
• Improve pupil motivation
  Share information on actual performance against targets with pupils on a regular basis so they take responsibility for their own progress. Give teachers access to tools that reward achievement instantly, helping pupils stay on track by celebrating excellence. 
• Manage different curriculums
  Set appropriate targets for each subject, relevant to the programme of study, making it easier to manage a mix of qualifications being taught side-by-side.
• Eliminate repetitive tasks
  Free skilled staff to add value by automating or simplifying their routine and cut out unproductive tasks such as manual register taking, letter writing and gathering pupil progress data for parental reports. No more double data entry is required – information on a child or family only needs to be entered once.
•  Improve communication internally and externally
  Access a full pupil performance history so you have everything you need for a frank conversation with parents about their child. You can easily share this online so parents can keep up to date with a child’s progress via the web too. The information also provides an invaluable starting point when discussing performance of individuals or teaching groups with staff.

We understand the unique challenges faced by international schools. We can offer SIMS as a modular solution for your school to ensure that you have all the benefits of the leading UK management information system without having to pay for anything that’s not relevant to your needs.