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Class View

Run your classrooms more efficiently

Class View brings together key pupil information and essential teaching tasks in one place—reducing admin and giving teachers more time to focus on their students.

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Built exclusively for SIMS Next Gen

Unlike third-party products, any updates made in the Next Gen MIS appear instantly in Class View.

Get more time in your day

Teachers can speed up daily tasks. Take the register in under 15 seconds and create a seating plan in less than a minute.

New features on their way

Our teams are busy planning some much-anticipated additions—like messaging, homework, and parents evening. Keep an eye on the roadmap for updates.

No additional cost for SIMS customers

Class View is included in your SIMS contract, meaning you can enjoy its benefits without any extra expense*

*Class View is part of the Engage package and is available at no extra cost to SIMS customers until 31 March 2027. From 01 April 2027, it will be chargeable as part of Engage package.

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Take the register and monitor attendance

Quickly identify where attendance is dropping below KPI thresholds enabling timely interventions and improved student support.

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Create a seating plan

Reduce distractions, encourage collaboration, and ensure students who need extra support are seated in positions where they can thrive and enjoy learning.

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View SEND Log

Access up-to-date SEND data in the classroom and respond to individual needs, ensuring personalised support for each student.

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Record medical incident and log conduct event

Get an up-to-date record of any health-related issues that occur during school hours. Helps manage classroom behaviour by tracking individual student conduct patterns.

"Moving to the cloud-based system eliminated our reliance on an aging server, ensuring constant availability and improved data security. Additionally, automating fire registers and other administrative tasks promised significant time savings and increased efficiency."

Debbie Stewart

Eastfield Primary School

"With SIMS Next Gen, we can access critical data quickly and easily, which has improved our ability to make informed decisions. It is so much easier to manage our student data."

Debbie Stewart

Eastfield Primary School

"Since implementing SIMS Next Gen, we’ve saved a significant amount of time on administrative tasks, which has allowed us to focus on more important things, like teaching and learning."

Debbie Stewart

Eastfield Primary School

"SIMS Next Gen offered the opportunity to bring our systems in line with other cloud-based tools, ensuring staff could work efficiently from anywhere."

Geoff Worth

Pate’s Grammar School

"It encourages staff to think strategically about seating arrangements, which ultimately improves teaching and learning outcomes."

Geoff Worth

Pate’s Grammar School

"The flexibility and efficiency that SIMS Next Gen has brought to our school have been transformational. From streamlining admin tasks to enabling remote working, it’s saving us time and helping staff focus on what truly matters - teaching and supporting our students."

Geoff Worth

Pate’s Grammar School

"It’s made everything so much easier and more organised. I can’t imagine going back to the old way of doing things."

Sara Andrew

Pontesbury CE Primary School

"It’s made payroll easier, as I can quickly verify absences without having to track down missing details. Now, I don’t have to second-guess whether I’ve recorded something correctly. It’s all there at a glance, and I have complete confidence in the data."

Sara Andrew

Pontesbury CE Primary School

Everything you need. Packaged your way.

There is no ‘one size fits all’ here because we know that all schools and trusts are different. That’s why we offer you the flexibility and adaptability to choose from a range of solutions to help your unique school or trust thrive.

Included in

Optimise

Tools and insights to help your school thrive
Includes:
  • Attendance and unexplained absence messaging
  • Assessment, performance, and exams
  • Census and statutory returns
  • Conduct management
  • Class management (Class View and Seating Plans until March 2027)
  • Reporting, data, and insights
  • Timetabling, options, and cover
  • Pupil and staff data
  • SEND management
  • Interventions
  • SIMS Next Generation
  • Trust centralised performance management (Group Hub until March 2027)
  • Hosting and support (optional)
Learn more

Engage

Communicate and collaborate quickly and easily
Includes:
  • SMS/email messaging
  • In app notifications
  • Parent & student app
  • Data collection
  • Attendance insights
  • Conduct insights
  • Assessment insights
  • Clubs & activities
  • Timetable
  • Reports
  • School calendar
  • Homework *H2 2026
  • Parents' evening booking *H2 2026
  • Google & Apple single sign-on *H2 2026
  • Class management (Class View and Seating Plans)
Learn more

Pay

Make everything from clubs to dinner money seamless
Includes:
  • Menu selection
  • Clubs & trips
  • Wraparound care
  • Shops & donations pages
  • Single basket checkout
  • Automatic top up
  • Reporting & insights
  • MIS and catering integration
  • Settle to multiple accounts
  • SIMS Dinner Money
  • Group management application
Learn more

Finance

Budgeting, resource allocation, and reporting simplified
Includes:
  • Suppliers and supplier payments
  • Income and debtors
  • Budgets and staffing including personnel links
  • Chart of accounts
  • Financial tasks
  • Data exchange with a local authority
  • Statutory reporting
  • Users and permissions
  • Period and year end
  • Equipment / asset management and loans
  • Transactional reporting and audits
  • Hosting
  • Support and FMS extra database (optional)
Learn more

Secure

Education-focused data protection and cyber security
Includes:
  • Complete data protection compliance platform
  • Attack surface management
  • Managed awareness training and phishing
  • Threat intelligence updates
  • DPO support service
  • ICO-registered DPO contact
  • Office 365 / Google security review
  • Cloud endpoint security review
  • Cloud data governance review
  • Cloud audit log review
Learn more
Included in

Optimise

Tools and insights to help your school thrive
Includes:
  • Attendance and unexplained absence messaging
  • Assessment, performance, and exams
  • Census and statutory returns
  • Conduct management
  • Class management (Class View and Seating Plans until March 2027)
  • Reporting, data, and insights
  • Timetabling, options, and cover
  • Pupil and staff data
  • SEND management
  • Interventions
  • SIMS Next Generation
  • Trust centralised performance management (Group Hub until March 2027)
  • Hosting and support (optional)
Learn more

Engage

Communicate and collaborate quickly and easily
Includes:
  • SMS/email messaging
  • In app notifications
  • Parent & student app
  • Data collection
  • Attendance insights
  • Conduct insights
  • Assessment insights
  • Clubs & activities
  • Timetable
  • Reports
  • School calendar
  • Homework *H2 2026
  • Parents' evening booking *H2 2026
  • Google & Apple single sign-on *H2 2026
  • Class management (Class View and Seating Plans)
Learn more

Pay

Make everything from clubs to dinner money seamless
Includes:
  • Menu selection
  • Clubs & trips
  • Wraparound care
  • Shops & donations pages
  • Single basket checkout
  • Automatic top up
  • Reporting & insights
  • MIS and catering integration
  • Settle to multiple accounts
  • SIMS Dinner Money
  • Group management application
Learn more

Finance

Budgeting, resource allocation, and reporting simplified
Includes:
  • Suppliers and supplier payments
  • Income and debtors
  • Budgets and staffing including personnel links
  • Chart of accounts
  • Financial tasks
  • Data exchange with a local authority
  • Statutory reporting
  • Users and permissions
  • Period and year end
  • Equipment / asset management and loans
  • Transactional reporting and audits
  • Hosting
  • Support and FMS extra database (optional)
Learn more

Secure

Education-focused data protection and cyber security
Includes:
  • Complete data protection compliance platform
  • Attack surface management
  • Managed awareness training and phishing
  • Threat intelligence updates
  • DPO support service
  • ICO-registered DPO contact
  • Office 365 / Google security review
  • Cloud endpoint security review
  • Cloud data governance review
  • Cloud audit log review
Learn more