3D illustration of The Evolution Of Storage Devices to showcase the difference between a Cloud MIS and an onsite hosted MIS such as SIMS

Bromcom vs SIMS

SIMS have dominated the MIS landscape for many years. Now, in an environment which has required adaptation and flexibility to accommodate school’s needs, we look at the advancements in cloud-based MIS’s and how Bromcom is a better solution to match your school’s ambitions.
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How to Run a Successful Summer School

Dedicated funding has been awarded to schools up and down the country for summer schools to bridge a knowledge gap exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Bromcom explores the advantages of a summer school programme and steps educators can take to ensure pupils make academic progress and rediscover their passion for school.
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Cyber Security in Education – Combatting Threats to Schools

Cyber threats to schools have become prevalent throughout the pandemic and schools have lost coursework, data and money in the process. Bromcom looks at the importance of keeping your data secure and how the cloud can provide protection which a school-based server cannot.

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Bromcom’s New Generation MAT Finance with Martin Holyoak

When considering finance within the context of a MAT, there are a range of different perceptions amongst small, medium or large trusts. When it came to creating our own MAT Finance product, we wanted to ensure that it could incorporate all sizes of MAT.
school budget

Time to give it a rest, teachers – Teacher wellbeing over the summer break

The summer holidays are finally upon us and it really is time for teachers to give it a rest. In this blog we examine why the teaching community needs a break, now more than ever, and the steps educators can employ to feel rejuvenated for the next academic year.
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A to Z School Budget Guide for School Business Managers

Examining the ways in which School Business Managers can maximise their budget and the products Bromcom can provide to support the financial administration of a school or MAT.
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Setting the pace for School Improvement

Educational Consultant, Scott Biggs, explains how to manage the pace of decision-making to stimulate rapid school improvement.
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Cultivating Capacity in Schools

The next instalment of our blog series considers the different areas of staff management that contribute to School Improvement.
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Developing Stronger School Improvement Strategies

Strategy is one of the key components when looking at School Improvement. Bromcom can offer schools a toolkit that both supports its development and removes implementation barriers.
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Sustainable School Improvement

Within this series of blogs, we will unpick and explain each of the different components within the School Improvement Formula.
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How does Bromcom support the assessment process?

The key to creating an effective learning environment is achieving the right balance of formative and summative assessment strategies to support teaching and learning. Find out how Bromcom can support the needs of your school.
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Harness the power of Google for education by integrating your MIS

The advantages of having access to the Google Workspace (formerly known as G Suite) through your school MIS.
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Professional Development - Top 5 skills and qualities of a teacher

What are the qualities that make a good teacher? And how can school leaders develop their staff? Tips and advice for school professionals.
Office 365 as part of your school MIS

Using Office 365 as part of your school MIS

An automated integration that will give your school the seamless experience it needs to run smoothly and efficiently.
All inclusive MIS

The advantages of a one-stop-shop MIS

An all-in-one solution or a one-stop-shop MIS is all a modern school needs to run efficiently.
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Data protection essentials – What does GDPR mean for schools

How important is it to protect your school data? And does your school comply with GDPR guidelines? Every school should ask these questions.
Mental Health and Wellbeing in Schools

16 steps for supporting mental health and wellbeing in schools

Mental Health and Wellbeing in education are familiar topics. We explore the best practices schools can put in place.
Parent-Teacher Communication

Step by step guide: 11 great ways to build parent-teacher communication

Read this guide to learn all the ways your school can communicate effectively with parents.
30 Days Test Trial

Launching our tech 30-day test drive and working with local IT support teams

Try out our Cloud-MIS for 30 days. It’s free!
School Improvement

School improvement through intelligent technology

Read this blog on how technology can be used to implement a successful school improvement plan.
Exams 2020

Exams 2020

As I have mentioned before ‘These are strange times’. Having to wander round Tesco’s wearing a mask, finding myself comparing different types of hand gel and walking around with my invisible 2 metre force field...
Primary Tracker

Primary Tracker’s 2020 evolution (so far)

Many of you have been in touch about the Primary Tracker, so we thought it was time to give you an update on its progress and how much it has changed since we last featured it here on the Product Blog...
Digital Transformation

Schools digital transformation

Not so many years ago, a school’s paper budget would have been significant as demands for test papers, worksheets and so on would have been a full-time job. Students handed in their homework in hard copy and...
Product Release Webinar

Product release webinar

As schools draw to a close for the summer the agile development process here at Bromcom just keeps rolling.
Leadership

Leadership

When as humans we reflect on the many achievements of leaders through the ages, we always find many supporters and detractors of their ideas and methodologies...

MAT User Group

Product development webinar

The best part about my job is working with customers to make sure that our products meet, or more importantly, exceed their requirements. It’s all about YOU!

MAT User Group

MAT Vision user group

MAT Vision is the hub of a Trust’s Management Information System. More than just a warehouse for trust-wide data, MAT Vision is at the centre of the trust’s operations by facilitating the management and organisation of data across Bromcom CloudMIS. Powerful and highly flexible analytics allow a trust to understand school performance and target school improvement.

DfE Taking attendance

DFE guidance – how to record attendance and absence from next week

Please read Bromcom’s guidance on how to record attendance in the MIS, including using four NEW codes which will be available from Monday 1 June...
Distance Learning

Did you forget your training?

I always feel invigorated when I leave a training session. I’ve ingested the knowledge of an expert and cannot wait to make my school better by applying it. I get back to my desk and try out a couple of new reports that I didn’t know about and ‘BOOM’ the information is flashing up on screen...
Distance Learning

Bromcom education: continued improvements

As we all began to digest the Prime Minister’s announcement on Sunday night a number of documents began to land in my inbox. These were the details relating to the re-opening of schools when the government feels we can enter Stage 3 of the Covid unlocking process..
Distance Learning

Transition to distance learning

If you have ever followed the day of a child in a school, you will soon realise that it’s hectic. It is likely to cover five different subjects, contain two breaks and lots of social interaction with peers and adults...
Distance Learning

The difference between remote and distance learning

As an educationalist we are in strange times. Following the initial government announcements regarding lockdown, we had limited time to change the way we support our young people. Not only from a learning and teaching perspective...
Distance Learning

Bromcom insights: bringing you data at your fingertips

How many times in a school are you asked simple data questions that you know should be at the tip of your fingers, but with so much going on during the school day it’s completely escaped your mind...
Distance Learning

Top 10 reasons to choose Bromcom when deciding on a new cloud MIS provider

As an MIS supplier, we’re often asked ‘Why Bromcom’? What is it that makes us stand out in the marketplace and why should a customer choose Bromcom over another MIS Provider...
School Closure Update

Bromcom support for school closure update

Yesterday the Government announced its free school meals voucher scheme...
School Closure Update

Bromcom support for school closure

We are continuing to monitor the Government advice to ensure that our customers get everything they need from us during this difficult period...
Student Portal

How using the student portal can support remote learning

In these unprecedented and challenging times, the message from our customers is clear: Schools are not closing from today (23/03/2020). Closing is the wrong word, schools are CHANGING....
Communication Log

Using the communication log

Here at Bromcom we understand the difficult circumstances that our schools are currently facing. Over the next few days we will continue to highlight features of our MIS system that...
School Closure Update

Support for school closure

We have created some short videos to help you through the difficult situation that schools are finding themselves in. In these videos we will show you how to do the following tasks...
OneStopShop

One-Stop-Shop

Back in the decade of big hair, New Romantics and the Rubik’s cube, cars were rolling out of showrooms with cassette decks, proudly emitting the occupants’ music choices with a gerbil like quality that’s hard to forget...
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NEW UX: Global search tool

As more and more of what is useful to us becomes digitised and embedded in the systems we use, the need to efficiently and effectively sift through the reams of information becomes ever more important....
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Parent App: MyChildAtSchool

Bromcom’s Parent App, MyChildAtSchool, gives schools a simple and convenient way of engaging with parents, while simultaneously reducing the school office’s workload...
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BETT 2020 newsletter

BETT 2020 Newsletter
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Bromcom's finance blog 4

Welcome to the fourth product blog for Bromcom’s Finance module. To coincide with release 8.1, I am exploring the methods of reporting and why Bromcom’s Reporting options are so great and outdoing the competition.
Product Blog

Product blog

It’s been a while since we updated the Product Blog, and I thought it was high time that I should share with you some of the recent MIS developments we’ve released, and what’s in the pipeline for the next couple of months.
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Bromcom primary tracker

Before joining the company early this year, I recalled hearing from schools that Bromcom was in constant development mode, pushing its products to their absolute limit...
Finance3

Bromcom's finance

Welcome to the third product blog for Bromcom’s Finance module. So much has happened in the past few months; it has been a blur. We have had...
PrimaryTracker

A new Primary Tracker for assessment

The first main release of Bromcom’s MIS is almost due to go live. As I promised in my last blog in February, we’ll be introducing functionality for Clubs and Trips, so I thought I’d give you a bit more information about some of the options we have built into Clubs, bef...
BI-G

The start of something BI-g

Although the move to academies and multi academy trusts has been controversial, it is undeniable that we are seeing more innovation from MATs than was the case when schools were run by local authorities. This is unsurprising given that in MATs schools are united by vis...
ProductBlog1

Product blog

Hello, and welcome to the Bromcom Product Blog. So far this year we have been busy continuing to make the improvements to the user interface that John mentioned in his blog post last year. This work is ongoing, and there is much more to come, but I wanted to share with...
Finance

Bromcom's finance

Welcome to the second product blog for Bromcom’s Finance module and welcome to 2019. I hope you enjoyed your time-off with family and friends and wish you a successful year. 2019 is a milestone in the development of Bromcom Finance as it goes live and starts to reall...
MATVision

Bromcom's MAT vision

Bromcom’s MAT Vision has removed a great barrier to efficiency many of our MAT customers faced as it means data flows automatically from Bromcom and SIMS MIS systems into a central warehouse and so they no longer need to manually chase schools for data and manually add...
BettShow2019

Visit Bromcom at The Bett Show 2019

Date: Wednesday 23rd January 2019 – Saturday 26th January 2019 / Location: Excel London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London, E16 1XL / Hall: N1-19 / Bromcom Stand: B320 / Bromcom has been the innovator of School Management Information Systems for 30 years. Bromcom is...
ProductBlog2

Product blog

Welcome to the last product blog of the current year from the team here at Bromcom. Let me take the opportunity to wish you all a merry christmas, a happy new year, feliz navidad, season’s greetings, happy holidays and all that stuff. In the vein of looking forwards a...
Finance2

Bromcom's Finance

Welcome to the first product blog for Bromcom’s new Finance module. Being new, I will start by giving a brief walk through of its key facilities and put it in the context of Bromcom’s offering. Bromcom Finance is an optional suite of functions that extends the Bromcom...
Analytics

Bromcom Analytics

This Autumn we are proud to launch Bromcom Analytics, a set of Reports and Dashboards that combine metrics from across the MIS in one place, allowing you to take the pulse of your school’s performance in seconds and investigate troublesome indicators to get the story b...
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Product blog

Welcome to Bromcom’s product blog, this is going to be the first of an ongoing series of articles from the product management team covering a broad range of subjects from current best practice to upcoming developments and everything in between. They will be coming ever...
Exams 2020

What is an MIS or Management Information System?

We often hear the terms 'MIS' and 'Management Information Systems' in schools but what do they really mean and how can they make a positive impact?
How to write school reports

School report writing: an ultimate guide with examples

How to write school reports and share them with parents.

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The best assessment for learning strategies in primary schools

When it comes to assessment, what are the best practices? What are the pros and cons of Summative vs Formative assessments? This post will try to answer all your questions.
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What you need to know about school timetable software for students and teachers

All you need to know about school timetables, how to organise them and how they can help curriculum coverage for primary and secondary schools.
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How to improve attendance in schools and useful strategies about statistics

Tips on how you can improve your school attendance throughout the year.
MATs and centralised data

Why should MATs centralise their data?

Having all your data in one place is key to a successful improvement strategy. Any MAT should invest in a system able to centralise all data.
Exams 2020

How technology can help improve education

Read this blog on how technology can help improve education. You will love it for strategizing school improvement.
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Switching MIS – Why should your school switch, and how difficult is it?

Is your MIS up to its task? Here are the reasons why you should consider alternative options...
What is SIMS?

What is a School Information Management System (SIMS)?

SIMS, School Management Information Systems, School Information Management Systems, School Information Systems… What are they? Are they the same? All your questions answered.