Class Charts is an online system used to track achievement and behaviour throughout the school day. We believe in working closely with parents, and one of the key benefits of using Class Charts is that we are able to securely share your child(s) achievement and behaviour report with you, and so keep you up to date in real-time.  Students are also able to track their own achievements and behaviour.

If a detention is set for your child, you will receive an email or a smartphone app notification providing full details of the detention.

Parents/Carers will be provided with a unique parent code enabling you to register on the system in September. 

Further guidance on using the Class Charts can be found using this Quick Start Parents Guide.

Free mobile phone apps for IOS and Android are also available to parents from this page or the app store.

If you have more than one child in the school, then you can enter additional codes once you have created an account and are logged in.

All homework is set using ’Google Classroom’.  Setting homework in this way will ensure your son/daughter has clarity over what is being asked of them, and in many cases, it will also include resources to assist them with the work.  In this first instance, once the work is complete, your son/daughter simply needs to mark the work as ‘done’ through either the website or the free mobile app.

In September, you will receive an email from Google asking if you would like to join your son/daughter’s classes.  This will be sent to the primary e-mail address that you have given the school.  We have found that sometimes you may find these e-mails end up in your junk/spam mail box, so please check there if you don’t receive these e-mails.  You will then automatically receive an email either weekly or daily (your choice) summarising the home learning that your son/daughter has been set.

Your son/daughter will be shown how to access Google Classroom through their ICT lessons, but if they wish for any more information, please direct them back to their Tutor.

If your son/daughter downloads the free mobile or tablet app (all platforms are supported), please remind them that they must log in using their school e-mail address and password, not any existing Google accounts.  The same is true for accessing Google from any web browser. If you want to change your settings, require support, or find out more about Google Classroom, please follow this link: Goo.gl/9GYJSK

We have a convenient way for you to access, review and request changes to the data held on you and your children, as well as view key term dates.  You can access our Parent app and website at your own convenience via smartphone, tablet or PC – anytime, anywhere.

What will you find in SIMS Parent:

•   School term, inset dates and contact details available at the click of a button
•   Access to update your contact details, so we always have the most up-to-date information in case of an emergency
• If you have more than one child at Sandhurst School, you’ll have access to this information for all your children from the same app.

Getting started

• We will be sending you an activation e-mail to the contact e-mail you supplied to us in September. Simply click on the link from your tablet, PC or smartphone to activate your account.
• You can then log in using your normal Facebook, Twitter, Google or Microsoft username and password.
• From your smartphone or tablet, download the app from the Google Play or Apple App Store - search for SIMS Parent.
• From a PC or Windows phone, log in online at www.sims-parent.co.uk   

Please note that your activation email is unique to you and should not be used by anyone else.  Your activation email will expire after 90 days if it is not used. Please contact the school if you require a replacement after this date.

Sandhurst School uses Studybugs as a secure system for reporting your child’s absence due to illness. This system is a platform which is supported by the NHS and the Department for Education.  

We would like to ask all parents/carers to please get the free Studybugs app, or register on the Studybugs website, and use it to tell us whenever your child’s ill and unable to attend school.

To get the app or to register via the website, please visit the Studybugs website. 

If you do not have access to the internet and/or to a smartphone, then you are still able to report a child’s absence via telephone. 

Top 3 reasons to use Studybugs:

1. It’s integrated with our systems, so we know right away if your child is unaccounted for.
2. It’s quick and easy to register and use. Furthermore, it will automatically remind you to keep us posted.
3. You’ll be helping the NHS and other public health organisations improve children’s health.