A new service pack for SMART Notebook 10 collaborative learning software will be made available soon. This software update will be accompanied by a revised licensing agreement, which will confirm the permitted use of SMART Notebook software.
In advance of this update, the attached letter clarifies the SMART Notebook software license to help you make more informed choices. It has come to our attention that misleading or incorrect information about the use of SMART Notebook software is circulating in the marketplace.

Read the licensing letter

IMPLEMENTATION OF DROUGHT MEASURES

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United Utlilities have imposed a domestic hosepipe ban in response to exceptionally low reservoir levels in the North West of England, a result of the lowest rainfall in the first half of the year since records began.

The ban restricts the use of hosepipes or sprinklers for watering private gardens and washing private cars. 

Under the circumstances, Trafford Council is implementing its Climate Change Adaptation Plan which aims to minimise water consumption by the Council in order to protect the remaining water supply for Trafford residents.

Consequently, watering in parks within Trafford will only take place where absolutely essential, and ponds and lakes within parks will not be refilled during the drought period.

The Council encourages schools and other educational settings to keep water consumption to a minimum, and where possible refrain from the use of hosepipes or other water-intensive activities, including taking care not to leave taps running and conserving water at every opportunity.

For more information and latest updates on the drought situation, please see the United Utilities web site at www.unitedutilities.com

Trafford Council supports the Use Water Wisely Campaign.

IMPLEMENTATION OF DROUGHT MEASURES

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     SCHOOL FINANCIAL SERVICES
Do you need any help with any clerical work? Is your secretary off on long term

sickness, or just simply snowed under?

If the answer is yes, then we can lend a hand.

The CYPS Schools Financial Services, Admin Assistants, can help you out by

providing clerical assistance, either on a short or long-term basis.

We can provide a half day a week clerical support e.g. if your school has either

absences or have a new secretary or bursar requiring training. These duties

include processing of orders and invoices via SIMS and file transfers.

http://www.traffordlearning.org/trafford/Sections/public_html/atoz/documents/WEBUPDATECLERICALSUPPORTFLYERJune2010.doc

Urmston Grammar School has 200 tables to give away.  The dimensions are 55cm x 55cm and they are 70cm high.  If you would be interested to take some or all, contact Mark Whitehurst at Urmston Grammar School 0161 748 2875

Due to routine maintenance, the Espresso Home Access service will be unavailable during the following periods:-

• Friday 5th February 6pm until midnight 6pm on Friday 12th February until 6pm on Sunday 14th

Espresso would like to apologise in advance for any inconvenience this will cause and thank you for your patience during this time. 

LETTER From School Financial Service (please click link for Formatted version

The purpose of this letter is to remind you from 1^st January 2010, the standard rate of VAT will revert to 17.5%.  A VAT guidance leaflet is available via the schools intranet.

From 1 January 2010, schools will need to be careful that they are using the correct standard rate of VAT when coding up transactions on FMS 6. 

Where schools changed the default Standard VAT ledger codes on FMS 6, they will now need to change the default code back.

If you have any queries concerning these instructions please contact your Finance Support Officer in the first instance.

If you have any further queries please contact Sarah Lloyd or Danielle Taylor on telephone number 0161 912 4784.

Yours faithfully

Sarah Lloyd and Danielle Taylor

Assistant Managers of Schools? Financial Services

http://www.traffordlearning.org/trafford/Sections/public_html/atoz/SFS_ATOZ_School_VAT_P1.jsp

The passwords for accessing file transfers on the finance area of Trafford Learning Website have been reset. An email confirming the new passwords has been sent to all the registered schools.

If you have problems when logging on with your User ID and password please enter your registered email address in the 'Have you forgotten your password?' area and IT will re-send your password.

If you still have problems logging onto the system please contact Danielle Taylor or Linda Bilsborrow  through the link at the bottom of the page.

Changes have also been made to where this section of Trafford Learning is accessible from and this is causing problems for some schools, however, this issue will be resolved over the next few days.

We have been advised that Lloyds TSB have introduced a new bank statement format and statement numbering system and future statements may be numbered from 1 to 99

You may find that Lloyds TSB bank statements you are now receiving will be in a different range of statement numbers and will commence at statement number 1.

If you receive statements in the new range of statement format i.e. statement number 1, please check the opening balance on bank statement 1 agrees with the closing balance on the last bank statement the school received for that bank account.

We have contacted Capita as the SIMS FMS6 system does not presently allow you to record duplicate statement numbers and this new range of statement numbers will already have been used on FMS6. Capita are presently looking at updating their software to take account of this.

As an interim measure we have taken advice from Capita and recommend using a prefix of 10 plus the two digit statement number when inputting the bank statement to FMS6.

For example bank statement number 1 would be recorded on FMS6 as 1001 and bank statement number 12 would be recorded on FMS6 as 1012.

Please pass a copy of this letter to the appropriate person in school.

If you have any queries , please contact your support officer, Danielle Taylor or Sarah Lloyd.

Yours faithfully

Danielle Taylor

For  formatted version please click : http://www.traffordlearning.org/trafford/Sections/public_html/atoz/NOTICE_P1.htm