Hi Ali,
Sorry this is rather late but I missed your post at the time. I'm in a similar situation (school using iSAMS with little else other than some spreadsheets to manage HR data), and am mid-process with implementing Natural HR. It's working reasonably well so far, and I am confident that it will be the right solution for us long term - but what you gain from implementing a system that's nicely customisable is at the expense of it being an out-of-the-box solution. Ultimately it should talk to iSAMS - we've commissioned NHR to do the development work with iSAMS on this, so that we don't have data duplication to worry about.
Very happy to talk about it off-line if that's helpful.
Nina

In reply to Nina Waters:

Hi Nina,
Thank you so much for your reply. Yes, I would be really interested in talking to you further about this especially the talking to ISAMs bit - I have just had a quick look on NaturalHR and the website doesn't really sell itself without booking a demo. Is the performance management section relevant to teachers? IE can it take into account lesson observations etc?

Anyway, if you fancy talking more about it that would be fantastic. (I'm new-ish to this platform and wondered how I message you privately?)

All the best
Ali

In reply to Ali:

Hi Ali,
I think you can message directly somehow - but my email is nina.waters@emanuel.org.uk. Thanks, Nina