In SIMS, the pastoral structure can be divided into School Tiers. If your school uses tiers, then each year group is associated with one tier. Examples of tiers might be Pre-Prep (Nursery), Prep (Junior), Senior, Sixth Form, Boys, Girls, etc.

With the Multiple Timetable licence you can create a separate timetable 'segment' for each tier or you can merge tiers together for the purpose of timetabling/lessons.

Each part of the school will have a separate timetable definition (SPL file) in Nova-T6. In SIMS, a master timetable cycle is created to support the number of periods and times of each of the separate timetable segments. Each model (timetable) will be imported into SIMS independently.

Yes, in SIMS each period within a timetable segment has its own start and end times.

Yes, each segment can have a different number of periods. However, the number of days must be consistent across the different timetables.

Yes, either as a timetable period (teaching or non-teaching) or as a gap in the time between the AM and PM lessons.

Yes, school tiers can be set up for the Boys and Girls with separate year groups for the year 7 Boys, Year 7 Girls, Year 8 Boys etc. Then the Boys and Girls Tiers can be timetabled separately.

Yes, rooms can be shared across separate timetables, though this must be co-ordinated.

Yes, teachers can be shared across separate timetables, though this must be co-ordinated.

Yes, teachers and rooms can be exclusive to one timetable segment.

No, the software can automatically schedule on one timetable but not across two or more. You can specify when the teacher is planned to teach in other timetables. This will prevent the teacher from being scheduled at that time.

A new report in Nova-T6 enables you to check for clashes to separate timetables including any transition time between each part of the school.

Yes, in Lesson Monitor setup you can specify the periods for which lesson marks are to be used for AM/PM registration in each segment separately.

Multiple Timetables need a common number of days across all the segments. When the prep school timetable is complete, the timetable can be doubled up.

Each of the timetables for the various parts of the school can be worked on independently or concurrently as they have separate SPL files. As usual, only one person should would on a particular SPL file at once.

Yes, Cover can be arranged for the whole school or on a tier by tier basis.

Yes, Options can be used with Multiple Timetables as it works with curriculum years and pupil selection.

Yes, however the Home Page will display missing register notifications for all classes in the prep school.

The periods are given different names, e.g. S1, S2, S3 in the senior school and P1, P2, P3 in the prep school. SIMS now shows the names of the periods (rather than just the period number/index).

Before the curriculum is sent to SIMS, a new report can be run in Nova-T6 to compare the two timetable (SPL) files and check for clashes. This may be set to take into account any required 'transition time' between parts of the school.

For teachers who teach in different parts of the school. timetables will need to agree when the teacher is available to teach in each part of the school. Each timetable can then assign 'placeholder' NCCs to the teacher to prevent them from being scheduled to teach when they are not available.

Yes, each part of the school can define their own activities. However, if the same Alternative Curriculum code and subject are used then that activity will be common across the whole school.

The Cover Diary enables cover for each part of the school or for the whole school. Staff can be marked as absent, e.g. to attend an internal meeting. Cover can then be assigned to their classes, if required.

Yes, it will be possible to print a timetable for all periods across the school, showing the prep school and then the senior school. A new menu is available with Multiple Timetable called 'Set Current Tier', if set to Any, all timetables will be printed. However, if set to Senior school, only senior school timetable periods will be printed etc.

Yes, it is possible but you will need to be aware that these lessons may have overlapping times.

A national curriculum year can be supported in more than one timetable. However, a pastoral year group can only exist in one tier and so can only be given one timetable segment.

Yes, providing your school is using one of our partner timetabling products. There are no essential features in Nova-T6 to support Multiple Timetables, although you may find the new Multiple Timetable Conflict report useful.