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Bromcom considers Change Management across schools, trusts and LAs

Change Management: Adopting a new MIS with minimal upheaval

Change within an educational setting is always daunting. Bromcom explores the theory behind Change Management and underlines some key steps to take to ensure support from across your community.

Procuring via G-Cloud: The swift process to obtain a new MIS and Finance package

Procuring via G-Cloud: The swift process to obtain a new MIS and Finance package

The decision, made by ESS, to extend their contract to a three-year term has left schools up and down the country feeling disillusioned.
True?; Five wooden blocks with 'True' text of concept

Debunking the myths around changing MIS

The idea of switching is touted apologetically or whispered just in case it might be taken seriously. How did our common assumptions get so far from reality?
Close up of two primary school boys interacting in class - Wraparound Childcare allows children to be supported outside the traditional schooling hours

Wraparound Care

Wraparound Care is a provision offered by Primary and Secondary Schools up and down the country. Bromcom explores the importance of pre and post school support from both an academic and social perspective, while highlighting how our system can help your school to manage a wraparound programme.
3D illustration of The Evolution Of Storage Devices to showcase the difference between a Cloud MIS and an onsite hosted MIS such as SIMS

Reception Baseline Assessment

With a host of changes to Primary Education for the 2021/22 academic year, Bromcom takes a look at the Reception Baseline Assessment and what this newly implemented examination means for teachers and students alike.
3D illustration of The Evolution Of Storage Devices to showcase the difference between a Cloud MIS and an onsite hosted MIS such as SIMS

MAT Centralisation

In the latest Bromcom blog instalment, we explore the updates made to the EYFS framework, their importance from both a statutory and non-statutory perspective and how our Primary Tracker can help to ensure you are fully equipped to deal with early years education.
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.
Smiling student girl wearing school backpack and holding exercise book ready for summer school

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.
school cyber security

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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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.
school budget

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.
bromcom supporting assessment

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.
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.
GDPR and data protection in education

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.
School Improvement

School improvement through intelligent technology

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

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...
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....
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...
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...