A secondary school MIS
A secondary school runs on its timetable: hundreds of lessons a day, cover for absent staff, lesson registers, behaviour, homework and assessment. PMC People is a secondary school MIS that brings all of it together, with HR built in.
What a secondary school MIS needs to do
An MIS for secondary schools has to keep up with the timetable. In a secondary school, the MIS is used by every teacher, every lesson. Registers, behaviour and homework have to take seconds, cover has to be arranged before the first bell, and heads of year, the SENCO and the data manager each need their own view of the same pupils.
What a secondary school uses
Timetables and cover
Timetables for every member of staff, student, class and room from your timetabling software, and daily cover that already knows who is off sick or on leave.
Lesson registers
A register for every lesson, with students missing from a lesson after being marked in that morning picked out.
Behaviour
Achievements and incidents with points, actions and detentions, suspensions and exclusions with the DfE’s reasons, and reports by year group.
Homework
Homework set for one class or several, handed in through the portal, marked with feedback, and missing homework logged in Behaviour.
Seating plans
Each room drawn once, every class planned by drag and drop or auto-arranged around seating needs and keep-apart rules.
Assessment
Data drops, markbooks and targets, analysis by subject and student group, and reports to parents.
SEN
The SEN register, one-page profiles teachers see for the students they teach, support plans, EHC plan reviews and a provision map.
The parent and student portal
Parents see the day, timetable, attendance, behaviour, homework and reports; students sign in for homework and their timetable.
The school census
Built from your records and checked against the DfE’s rules.
Why PMC People suits a secondary school
- One system for staff and pupils
- Cover, timetables and the staff records come from the same place.
- Roles that fit
- Built-in roles for teachers, tutors, heads of year, heads of department, the SENCO, the designated safeguarding lead, the cover manager and the data manager, each seeing their own part.
- Fast for teachers
- Registers, behaviour and homework in a few clicks, on any device.
- Your data stays with you
- On your own server.
Questions about a secondary school MIS
Which timetabling software does it work with?
The timetable is imported from your timetabling software as a file of classes, weeks, days, periods, rooms and teachers, over a one- or two-week cycle.
Can we move from SIMS?
Yes, including classes, the timetable, attendance and behaviour history. See moving from SIMS.
Does it work for a multi-academy trust?
Each school runs its own PMC People today. Several schools in one installation, with trust-wide reporting, is coming next.
More about PMC People as a school MIS
See a secondary school day in the demo
The guided tour shows timetables, cover, registers, behaviour, homework and seating plans.