Combinative Education

A real privilege to speak at University of Roehampton today on leading teacher development.

We explored what the literature tells us about effective professional learning — and, critically, the role of leadership in turning evidence into sustained practice. From intentional design and coherence, to culture, trust, and implementation, the session centred on how leaders create the conditions for teacher growth that genuinely improves outcomes for learners.

Encouraging to engage in such thoughtful discussion about moving beyond performative CPD towards development that is purposeful, evidence-informed and values-led.

Thank you for the openness, challenge and ambition in the room.

✨ Is school still the right fit for your child in 2026? ✨

As the new year approaches, many families are quietly asking themselves this question.

Across the UK, we’re seeing declining engagement with traditional schooling, alongside changing family needs. Work is more flexible. Families are travelling more. Children are navigating anxiety, overload and systems that don’t always adapt quickly enough.

More parents are exploring Elective Home Education (EHE) — not as a last resort, but as a thoughtful, proactive choice that reflects modern family life.

💬 Have you noticed any of this in your own family?
• A child who’s disengaged or overwhelmed?
• A schedule that no longer fits rigid school structures?
• Work or travel commitments that require flexibility?

At Combinative Education, we support families who want something different — without compromising on quality, structure, or outcomes.

🔹 High-quality bespoke tutoring
🔹 Flexible learning schedules that work around real life
🔹 Guidance and confidence-building for parents during transition
🔹 Specialist SEND support, including anxiety and school refusal

We combine deep expertise across mainstream, specialist and alternative education with an understanding of how families are living and working today.

✨ If you’re rethinking education this year, you’re not alone — and you don’t have to figure it out alone.

👉 Tell us in the comments:
What’s the biggest challenge your family is facing with education right now?

📩 Or get in touch for a confidential conversation:
📧 [email protected]
📞 07835 338881 (also on Whats App)
💬 DM us here

✨ Season’s greetings from Combinative Education ✨

As the year draws to a close, we’re taking a moment to pause, reflect, and say thank you.

Thank you to the school leaders, teachers, support staff, families, and partners who continue to show up every day with courage, compassion, and unwavering commitment to children and young people.

This year has reminded us that education is never just about outcomes — it’s about people, belonging, and hope. About holding high expectations and deep humanity. About combining expertise to meet needs, even in the most complex circumstances.

Over the holidays, we hope you find rest, joy, and time with the people who matter most. May the new year bring renewed energy, clarity of purpose, and moments that remind you why this work matters so deeply.

From all of us at Combinative Education — warm wishes for a peaceful holiday season and a hopeful, impactful year ahead 💛

✨ NPQ Results Day! ✨

A huge well done to every leader receiving their NPQ outcome today. These programmes demand resilience, reflection and a real commitment to improving outcomes for children — and you’ve done it.

Our consultansts are facilitators and leadership coaches, we're continually inspired by the calibre of leaders stepping forward across our sector. Today is a reminder of the power of evidence-informed practice, collaboration and professional growth done well.

👇 If you received your result today, tell us:
• Which NPQ did you complete?
• What’s one thing you’re proud of from your journey?
• What impact are you excited to make next?

🎉 Let’s celebrate your success and amplify great leadership across the system. Congratulations to all the new NPQ graduates — your impact starts now. 👏📚

📣 Schools: Final January INSET Capacity Now Open

If your January INSET needs high-impact, evidence-informed professional development, I have one final slot available for:

🔸 SEND & inclusive classroom practice
🔸 Behaviour & culture reset sessions
🔸 Adaptive teaching & scaffolding (GRR)
🔸 Leadership development for middle & senior leaders
🔸 Quality assurance: deep dives, curriculum audits & subject-specific CPD
🔸 Alternative Provision / managing provision reviews

Every session is research-driven, aligned with current national frameworks, and grounded in first-hand experience working within high-performing trusts, improving provision in complex settings, and delivering national NPQs.

It’s practical, tailored, and designed to shift practice the very next day.

📅 January INSET: One remaining slot
➡️ DM us
📧 [email protected]
📞 07835 338881 (WhatsApp available)

🚨 Schools break up next Friday — final 10 days to book January consultancy or interim leadership support.

Many schools are currently refining their provision management, SEND pathways and intervention frameworks — while also navigating capacity gaps in senior and middle leadership.

If your school or trust needs rapid, high-quality support, we have capacity to tak on one new client in January for consultancy or interim leadership.

Areas we can support with include:
🔸 Interim Leadership (SENCO, AP Lead, AHT Inclusion, Head of School)
🔸 Provision management & clarity of offer
(provision mapping, intervention strategy, graduated approach, EHCP pathways)
🔸 Behaviour & inclusion frameworks
🔸 Culture reset planning
🔸 Rapid school improvement diagnostics
🔸 SEND strategy development
🔸 Attendance improvement
🔸 Leadership coaching (SENCOs, Senior & Middle leaders)
🔸 AP or internal provision review or design
🔸 Quality assurance & inspection readiness

We bring extensive experience across mainstream, AP, special and trust-level leadership — including within some of the UK’s highest-performing and most innovative trusts. Schools choose to work with us because we bring immediate clarity, strong systems, and high-impact implementation ( 👀 at our reviews).

If your Spring Term priorities include:
✔ Strengthening your graduated approach
✔ Improving management and impact of provision
✔ Embedding sustainable SEND systems
✔ Stabilising leadership capacity
✔ Reducing operational pressure on SENCOs and SLT
✔ Creating inclusion frameworks that work for staff and pupils
✔ Ensuring consistency, compliance and readiness for inspection

…then this is the ideal moment to secure support / additional capacity before term ends.

One January partnership available.

If your school would like to discuss consultancy or interim leadership, please get in touch.

➡️ DM us

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📞 07835 338881

🌟 Impact is best measured by the people who experience it — and this collection brings together 10 powerful voices from across the education and therapeutic landscape.

In this carousel, you’ll hear from:
👩‍🏫 teachers shaping learning every day
📚 middle leaders driving curriculum and culture
🏫 senior and associate senior leaders leading whole-school improvement
🏢 executive leaders and CEOs overseeing strategic transformation
🧠 clinical and therapeutic staff working at the heart of SEMH, SEND and pastoral provision

Each perspective is different — but the message is consistent:
partnerships with our founder Areyauna and Combinative Education creates clarity, direction, and lasting positive change.

These testimonials reflect the breadth and depth of our work:
✔ developing confident, future-ready leaders at every level
✔ transforming behaviour, inclusion and pastoral systems
✔ strengthening SEND and SEMH practice across mainstream, specialist and AP settings
✔ raising teaching & learning standards with rigour and humanity
✔ supporting professional growth, wellbeing and excellence
✔ aligning educational and clinical approaches to strengthen whole-provision outcomes

📖 Swipe through to hear their words.
And if we've worked together before — we’d love to hear the impact you experienced too.

💭 Where does technology fit into the new curriculum changes?

The new National Curriculum proposals strengthen the basics — literacy, numeracy, knowledge sequencing and inclusion. All vital. All welcome.

But in a world transformed by AI, automation and data — we have to ask:

Why isn’t technological fluency treated as a core entitlement?
Yes, there are positive signals:
🔹 A broader Computing GCSE is being developed — covering AI literacy, data use and digital ethics.
🔹 Schools will be encouraged to embed digital, media and financial literacy across subjects.
🔹 A possible new post-16 qualification in Data Science and AI is being explored.

But here’s the catch:
🧩 Computing is statutory at every key stage — yet the GCSE is not mandatory.
🧩 It sits outside the “core buckets” that shape national accountability (English, maths, science, EBacc).
🧩 Most pupils can still complete their schooling without any formal qualification in digital or AI literacy.

So while the curriculum talks about preparing young people for life and work, it still treats technology as a subject rather than the infrastructure of modern learning.

As AI advances faster than any policy cycle, the risk is clear: we produce digitally-literate teachers and digitally-illiterate systems.

If we truly want to prepare children for a future that doesn’t yet exist, we need a curriculum that not only teaches about technology — but teaches through it, with it, and to question it.

👇 What do you think? Should digital and AI literacy now be considered a core entitlement, alongside reading and maths?

🌍 Delivering the NPQH International Programme

Combinative Education are proud to be part of the NPQH International journey through our partnership with Best Practice Network International — supporting headteachers and aspiring school leaders across the globe to develop the knowledge, confidence, and strategic expertise needed to lead thriving schools.

Through our work with world-class education groups such as GEMS Education, Nord Anglia Education, and other leading British international schools, we’re helping to shape leadership practice that’s both globally minded and deeply rooted in educational excellence.

We're privileged to have Areyauna R. co-facilitate alongside Hardial Hayer (Headteacher of the Year) — whose insight and experience add extraordinary value to every session. Together, we’re building a community of leaders committed to delivering impact, inclusion, and innovation in every context.

✨ If your school or trust is looking to design a personalised professional development pathway for your leaders — from aspiring heads to executive teams — get in touch to see how we can combine our expertise to meet your needs.

👉 Direct message
📧 [email protected]
☎️ 07835 338881

A brilliant day at the TES SEND Show in London! 💡

At Combinative Education , we’re always looking for ways to grow our knowledge and strengthen the support we provide — and today was full of inspiration and insight.

We attended the Ofsted session exploring the changes to the Education Inspection Framework, which now includes a SEND lens — a positive step towards ensuring that inclusion sits at the heart of educational practice.

We also joined an incredibly thought-provoking session with Dr Asha Patel, delving into the power of trauma-informed practice in education. Her passion on understanding the stories behind behaviour really resonated with us and reinforced the importance of asking ‘why’ when examining behaviour before we consider ‘how’ we go about our approaches. 🌱

Between sessions, we explored the exhibition stands, discovering innovative resources, tools, and services, and enjoyed connecting with so many professionals who share our commitment to improving outcomes for all learners.

It was a day that reminded us why we do what we do — combining our expertise to meet your needs.

👉 If you were at the Tes SEND Show too, what inspired you most?

✨ Last week one of our consultants had the privilege of facilitating with the National Institute of Teaching at Harris Institute, working with Year 2 Early Career Teachers from across Harris Federation.

It was truly inspiring to see such dedicated educators come together — sharing strategies, reflecting on their practice, and investing in their professional growth. Their energy, openness, and commitment to continuous improvement are what make this profession so special.

At Combinative Education, we believe in empowering educators at every stage of their journey — combining our expertise to meet your needs through bespoke coaching, facilitation, and leadership development that creates lasting impact.

🌟 A huge thank you to the National Institute of Teaching, Harris Institute, and all the incredible ECTs who continue to shape the future of education.

The Education Committee’s new report, Solving the SEND Crisis, makes one thing crystal clear: the future of SEND provision will demand clearer national standards, stronger accountability, and more inclusive practice in every school and college.

For leaders, this isn’t just about compliance — it’s about creating sustainable systems that meet rising need while building trust with families and staff.

We bring a proven track record of working in and alongside award-winning, outstanding specialist schools, helping leaders strengthen SEND provision across online, hybrid, and in-person settings. Whatever the school / trust needs, we have the expertise and experience to help.

Here’s how we support school and trust leaders:

🔹 Auditing and strengthening SEND provision

🔹 Preparing for forthcoming national standards and Ofsted scrutiny

🔹 Building whole-school inclusive practice and staff confidence

🔹 Developing strategic pathways for sustainable provision and funding

If your organisation is ready to move from firefighting to future-proofing, let’s talk. Together, we can ensure your SEND strategy is not only inspection-ready but genuinely transformative for your learners.

📩 DM us or email [email protected] to get the conversation going.