Natalie Combes

Natalie Combes serves as a Senior Lecturer Practitioner at Anglia Ruskin University within the School of Education (Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences). With 20 years of primary teaching experience across London and Essex schools, she currently teaches Year 2 while holding leadership roles including Non-Core Subject Leadership Team member, Apprentice Teacher Mentor, and Senior Mental Health Lead.

Her academic qualifications include:

• PGCE Primary Education from the Institute of Education, UCL
• BA (Hons) English Literature from the University of Leicester

Research emphasizes language acquisition in early education through vocabulary development and classroom discourse, alongside mental health integration in school systems and cross-curricular data literacy implementation. Her recent work produced a London Borough of Newham policy paper embedding data skills from Early Years to Key Stage 4.

No scientific awards were documented in source materials.

Natalie actively mentors apprentice teachers and Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs), leveraging her network of headteachers and education specialists. She bridges academic theory and classroom practice through concurrent university teaching and primary school leadership.