Admissions and Applicants
Admissions for 2025/2026
SIMS ATF Import and Applicant Housekeeping 2025.pdf
Download your School's ATF via the Admissions Portal Admissions Portal
Any issues please email: admissions@buckinghamshire.gov.uk
SIMS Guidance
SIMS Guidance
Step by step SIMS guidance. Scroll down and click on the relevant SIMS Module for guidance notes.
- Admissions and Applicants
- Administering and Maintaining SIMS
- Assessment
- Attendance & Lesson Monitor
- Behaviour and Achievement
- Cover
- Common Transfer Files
- Data Cleansing & Housekeeping
- Data Collection 2025 - EYFS, KS1, KS2 & Phonics
- Discover
- End of Year
- Exams
- Funding and Monitoring in SIMS Interventions
- Interventions
- In Touch
- Options
- HR / Personnel
- Profiles
- Pupil Data
- Reporting
- School Census (Pupil)
- School Workforce Census
- SIMS to SAP
- Special Education Needs
- Single Central Record (SCR)
- Options
Administering and Maintaining SIMS
This section is currently being updated. All information will be replaced with current versions.
Assessment
Attendance & Lesson Monitor
Behaviour and Achievement
Cover
Common Transfer Files
Data Cleansing & Housekeeping
Data Collection 2025 - EYFS, KS1, KS2 & Phonics
Discover
End of Year
Please email admissions@buckinghamshire.gov.uk to request your ATF.
Enter ATF in the subject line.
Exams
Useful Links:
For JCQ regulations on the publication of Examination results see here.
For Pearson guidance on receiving BTEC Results files by EDI ( Electronic Data Interchange) see here
16 to 18 qualifications, discount codes and point scores – GOV.UK
Key stage 4 qualifications, discount codes and point scores – GOV.UK
Funding and Monitoring in SIMS Interventions
Interventions
In Touch
Options
HR / Personnel
2025 Teachers Pay
2025 Teachers Pay Guidance SIMS 2025 Teachers Pay Related Guidance And Import File Notes
2025 Teachers Pay Import Files
SIMS Teachers Pay Award 2025 (LF) (London Fringe Schools)
SIMS Teachers Pay Award 2025 (ROE) (Rest of England Schools)
Please download the relevant zipped folder for your School. Extract the folder save the Guidance Notes and BOTH xml files to the SAME location.
IMPORTANT - You must have the two Import Files saved in the same location for successful import into SIMS:
· one ending in .xml
· one ending .xml.signature
2025 Bucks Pay
2025 Bucks Pay Import Files are available here SIMS Downloads / Personnel
2025 BP Guidance Notes - BP Import Guidance
Profiles
Pupil Data
Reporting
School Census (Pupil)
School Census Autumn 2025
Autumn 2025 School Census Return in SIMS Presentation - Primary, Infant, Pru's & Special Schools Autumn 2025 Preparing & Producing School Census Return in SIMS - Primary, Infant, Pru's & Special Schools Autumn 2025 School Census Return in SIMS Presentation - Post 16 Schools Autumn 2025 Preparing & Producing School Census Return in SIMS - Post 16 SchoolsSchool Workforce Census
SIMS to SAP
Special Education Needs
Single Central Record (SCR)
To download the latest SCR Report click SIMS Downloads / Single Central Record