SIMS Parent

Education Software Solutions Ltd

About this app

Please note
For security, this app requires an invitation code from your child's school.

Be proactive
Engaging with your children's education is key to their success. Help them stay on track with due dates by seeing their:

- Homework
- Calendar
- Timetable
- Extra-curricular activities

Track progress
See the information needed to understand your children's education and their overall performance better. Securely view your children's records:

- Assessment results
- Truancy
- Behaviour: good and bad
- School reports

Stay connected
Get alerts. Send and receive messages. Schools can send you alerts and messages straight to your phone.

All your children in one place across schools
With SIMS Parent, you can see all your children's data even if they attend different schools. (Requires schools to set up access for SIMS Parent)

Safeguarding
Help keep your children safe. In an emergency, up-to-date information helps schools meet their safeguarding obligations. Manage what information the school holds right from your smartphone.

About SIMS
SIMS: the School Information Management System at the heart of 21,000 UK schools.

Ratings and reviews

I tried registering with Google, and having made my way through the rather convoluted process, I've gotten the rather helpful error "invalid site" and can't proceed any further. I can't try again because my invitation code has "already been claimed", so I'm stuck with no information on how to proceed or who to contact for help. For first impressions, this app appears to be as user friendly a kick in the nuts and as well thought out as anything that starts with "hold my beer" and ends in A&E.

The worst app I have ever used. Notified that my sons has a new achievement, clicked on the link then spent 10 mins watching it loop round telling me my session had expired, taking me to the log in page, opening up, then telling me my session had expired again. When it finally loaded, it wouldn't show the achievements, so a pointless exercise. I really hope that it's a freebie for the school. If they're paying for this, they should ask for a refund.

Very helpful app in principle, apart from one killer flaw: it keeps logging me out and forcing me to log back in again every time I use it. App notifications still appear, so I'm clearly logged in, in some sense — but then when I select the notification it says "Your session has expired. You will need to sign in again." This makes it almost useless, sadly. But when actually logged in, functionality is great.

What's new

Maintenance release.