Deadline 18th Jan - Statutory Spring School Census
***Important message to all Warwickshire schools***
The second statutory school census return of the 2018/19 academic year will take place on Thursday 17th January. Deadline for submission to the Local Authority (LA) is Friday 18th January.
As in previous years, the 2019 spring school census will be used in the calculation of the pupil premium and the early years block of the dedicated schools grant. The Department for Education (DfE) will also be sharing a provisional extract of year 6 data to the Standards and Testing Agency (STA) on 7 February which will be used to populate the system for registering pupils for the Key Stage 2 national curriculum tests. Where census data has not been returned, the STA will be reliant on schools to manually enter these pupils into the pupil registration system to ensure they are correctly registered for the Key Stage 2 tests.
It is therefore vitally important that you are satisfied with the accuracy of your schools’ return before uploading it to the LA, and that it is returned by the prescribed deadline.
Prior to each census, the ICT Development Service (MIDAS) up-load census documentation to the Warwickshire Learning Platform (WeLearn365) which can be found at: http://bit.ly/midaspages and on the download site http://wsd.we-learn.com/downloads. These will assist you in preparing and running your census returns.
If you have any technical queries regarding the SIMS system and generating the return please contact the ICT Development Service Desk on 01926 414100.
If you have any other questions about this data collection, please contact Michelle Ali, Insight Service on 01926 742169 or by e-mail insight@warwickshire.gov.uk
Thank you for your continued support with these collections.
Insight Service
Commissioning Support Unit, Resources Directorate