• School Culture - you will establish and sustain an effective school culture by setting the strategic direction, managing human and financial resources and fulfilling all statutory duties to enable a sustainable and thriving school community.
• Teaching - you will learn how to establish and support effective teaching across your school to develop and embed your teacher’s pedagogical knowledge and classroom skills to enable the best outcomes for all children and young people no matter what their starting point is.
• Curriculum and Assessment - you will learn how to support and sustain high quality planning, teaching, learning and assessment by ensuring the implementation of effective and coherent policies. Appropriate and well-designed professional development for the teachers in your school will align with these priorities.
• Behaviour and Support - you will be able to establish and sustain high standards of behaviour and learning across the whole school community, including liaising with and training key stakeholders to ensure a safe, inclusive learning environment for all.
• Implementation - you will learn how to implement change successfully within your context by understanding the stages of implementation and aligning it with wider school improvement priorities.

Our participants have outlined many benefits to studying for an NPQH. Overall, they outline how the programme has given them professional confidence, time and space to reflect on themselves and the kind of leader they want to become and increased knowledge in their chosen area of study.

You will be able to:

• Develop the skills, confidence and knowledge to implement new professional development initiatives successfully through a supported implementation project.
• Challenge pre-conceived ideas.
• Understand how to develop a culture in a school and know how to model it as school.
• Strengthen and affirm your thinking and understanding of high-quality leadership approaches.
• Learn how to provide a framework that encourages a safe, sustainable learning culture for pupil progress.
• Access research and materials and have many opportunities to discuss a variety of professional development approaches and models with other teachers.

We know that our children and young people need teachers who are committed to their education and are confident learners themselves. Our programmes have been developed with teachers and leaders to:

• Create professionally confident teachers and leaders.
• Grow the next generation of leaders with the skills and knowledge to use the evidence-base for the benefit of their children and young people.
• Retain the best teachers who are excellent, collaborative role models for their schools and communities.
• Inspire leaders who can harness the power of rich learning environments for their children and young people no matter the current circumstances.

18 months followed by an 8 day open book summative case study task.

Venue: - Pate's Grammar School - Cheltenham.

Programme Overview

18 month programme comprising:

• Induction Conference - (full day - face to face)
• Facilitated face to face Peer Learning - (4 x 4.5 hour sessions)
• Face to face delivery events - (3x full day)

Supported by:

• Online Learning
• School based implementation project
• Mentoring

Engagement - There must be a minimum of 90% engagement in the programme for participants to be eligible for final assessment

Assessment - Each NPQ is assessed using a case study approach completed within a specified eight day window at the end of the programme

Anyone working in a school, in early years or in childcare can register for an NPQ. You will need a TRN (teacher registration number). If you are not a teacher, the DfE registration process will guide you through how to request one. If you are working in early years or child care you will need the Ofsted unique reference number (URN) of your setting.

Not everyone will be entitled to full funding. Please see the section below for details.

FREE for all state schools in England in 2023/2024 

Currently the DfE are funding all NPQ's for academic year 2023/24 for participants from all state schools in England.  However, your school will incur costs in covering your absence so that you can attend in-person events.  Teachers from Independent schools are welcome to apply, but will need to self fund.

Full funding is available for all NPQs for teachers and leaders employed by:

• state-funded schools
• state-funded 16 to 19 organisations
• independent special schools
• virtual schools (organisations run by local authorities that support the education of children in care)
• hospital schools
• young offender institutions

Additional funding available for small schools 

Targeted support funding is available for some schools. This money goes directly to schools to support participants to do an NPQ. It’s not available for the early headship coaching offer.

• State-funded primary schools with 1 to 150 pupils: Your school will receive a grant payment of £800 for each teacher or leader you employ who starts an NPQ in the 2023 to 2024 academic year.
• State-funded primary schools with more than 150 pupils: Your school will receive a grant payment of £200 for each teacher or leader you employ who starts an NPQ in the 2023 to 2024 academic year.
• State-funded secondary schools with 1 to 600 pupils: Your school will receive a grant payment of £200 for each teacher or leader you employ who starts an NPQ in the 2023 to 2024 academic year.

Please note that funding is only available for each teacher, for each NPQ once i.e. the same teacher cannot repeat the same NPQ and be funded twice.