A timetable that works – without the stress, late nights, or compromises!

For many schools, timetabling is one of the most demanding tasks of the year.
It’s complex, time‑intensive, and often carried by one or two key staff under significant pressure.

When it works well, it underpins everything.
When it doesn’t, it creates ongoing challenges for students, staff, and leadership.

Navigate works alongside schools to deliver clear, well-constructed timetables — and a process that is more manageable, more transparent, and better aligned to your school’s priorities.

The reality for many schools

Across the schools we work with, common patterns emerge:

  • Heavy reliance on one key person
  • Structure and priorities not clearly defined early
  • Timelines compressing toward the end, often resulting in later delivery
  • Last-minute changes impacting staff and students

These challenges are common — but they are avoidable with the right structure and support.

How we support your school

We work flexibly, depending on your needs and internal capacity.

1. Review and advice

An independent assessment of your timetable and approach.

  • Review of your structure, constraints, and priorities
  • Clear, practical recommendations

2. Structured support

Working alongside your timetabler throughout the process. (This is great for new, or inexperienced timetablers!)

  • Input at key decision points
  • Guidance on structure, constraints, and trade-offs
  • System training
  • Support through grid build and finalisation

3. Full timetable delivery

We take responsibility for building your timetable.

  • End-to-end construction
  • Close collaboration with leadership
  • A structured, well-managed process
  • Using your own timetable software (normally Edval), OR, we can provide the timetabling system for you too!

Recent work

We have supported a range of independent and Christian schools, including full timetable builds under significant time pressure.

For example, at Broughton Anglican College, we were engaged to deliver a complete K–12 timetable within a very limited timeframe:

“Navigate’s expertise and independent perspective helped us deliver a high-quality timetable before the start of the school year.”

Tim Hewitt – principal – broughton anglican college

View case study: Building a K-12 timetable at speed for Broughton Anglican College

Our approach

Timetabling is both a technical and strategic task. Getting it right requires more than fitting subjects into a grid.

Our approach is:

  • Independent – objective advice, focused on what is best for your students
  • Structured – a deliberate process that reduces pressure and uncertainty
  • Practical – grounded in real school experience
  • Collaborative – working closely with your team

Start the conversation

If you’re reflecting on your recent timetable, or preparing for your next cycle, we’d love to chat with you.

Introducing Navigate Timetables – Powered by Atlantis!

Navigate Education is an authorised partner of Atlantis, Providing Next-Gen timetabling, in the cloud. Navigate Timetables provides you with a fully featured timetabling system with all of the features and functionality you’ve come to expect from legacy systems, built on new algorithms to provide outstanding timetabling outcomes for students. We can provide Navigate Timetables for your school, including all of the training and support you need to make the most of this new system.

Or perhaps you’d prefer to completely outsource all of your timetabling requirements. If this is you, then perhaps our Timetabling as a Service model might work for you. For a monthly fee we’ll take care of all of your timetabling needs, including providing access to Navigate Timetables including the Cover Module to run your daily covers – all neatly integrated with your School Management System.

Please contact us now to learn more about how Navigate Timetables can help your school.

Read about how we supported Broughton Anglican College through their timetabling challenges.

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