In consultation with the DfE, SIMS now has a range of attendance subcodes which can be applied to the AM/PM session marks I (illness) and X, to enable schools to record additional COVID-19 reasons regarding a pupil/student’s absence.

Read more: SIMS Attendance sub-codes

An example of every Attendance Report available in SIMS is given, together with the route from which to find it, and in which particular circumstances it might be useful, e.g. for Ofsted.

SIMS Attendance Reports Catalogue22/06/2016, 13:33

If a pupil has left the school and you’ve made them a “Leaver” in SIMS prior to completing their attendance records, you can still edit their attendance for when they were at school.  Use the following instructions to do this. 

SIMS Attendance - Editing attendance marks for a leaver10/02/2016, 15:21