HISP Teaching School Hub offers the following NPQs:

Specialist NPQs:

That can help you develop your classroom teaching or specialism:

• NPQ Leading Teacher Development (NPQLTD) - a course to help teachers learn how to become a teacher educator and successfully support teachers to expand their skills in their educational setting.

• NPQ Leading Teaching (NPQLT) - a course to help teachers and middle educational leaders learn how to lead the teaching and learning of a subject, year group or phase.

• NPQ Leading Behaviour and Culture (NPQLBC) - a course to help teachers and educational leaders learn how to create a culture of good behaviour and high expectations in which staff and pupils thrive.

• NPQ Leading Literacy (NPQLL) - a course to help teachers learn how to effectively teach and promote literacy across their whole educational setting, year group, key stage or phase.

• NPQ Leading Primary Mathematics (NPQLPM) - a course to help teachers learn how to use mastery approaches and teach maths effectively.

Leadership NPQs:

Can help you develop your leadership skills or progress to a leadership role:

• NPQ Senior Leadership (NPQSL) - a course to help teachers and leaders develop leadership knowledge and expertise to improve outcomes for teachers and pupils in their educational setting.

• NPQ Headship(NPQH) - a course to help headteachers and leaders in educational settings develop the knowledge behind expert leadership and apply it to become outstanding headteachers.

• NPQ Executive Leadership (NPQEL) - a course to help educational leaders develop the expertise needed to be an outstanding leader, leading improvements across a group of educational settings or multi-academy trust.

• NPQ Early Years Leadership (NPQEYL) - a course to help current or aspiring managers of nurseries develop expertise in leading early years education and staff and organisational management.

• NPQ for Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators (SENCOs) (NPQ for SENCOs) - the mandatory course for special educational needs co-ordinators to learn how to effectively perform the SENCO role.

Early Headship Coaching Offer (EHCO):

If you are in your first 5 years of headship, you may also be eligible for the early headship coaching offer.

This targeted one-year support package has been tailored to the needs of new headteachers. It provides unassessed structured support, coaching and networking opportunities based on the best available evidence about what makes an effective headteacher.

To take the early headship coaching offer, you need to be undertaking, or have completed, the headship NPQ and be in your first five years of headship.

Course Structure:

NPQs are developed in collaboration with the sector, informed by the best available research and evidence endorsed by the Education Endowment Foundation. 

Each NPQ is underpinned by a content framework that sets out what participants should know and be able to do after completing an NPQ. NPQ training providers use these frameworks to design their courses.

Courses last between 12 and 18 months, depending on your chosen NPQ.

If you pass your NPQ, you can access your teaching qualifications to get your certificate.

Course Eligibility:

NPQ for Leading Primary Mathematics (NPQLPM): 

Before applying for this NPQ, you should have a secure understanding of mastery approaches to teaching maths from the Teaching for Mastery programme, or an equivalent programme.

NPQ for Early Years Leadership (NPQEYL): 

You need to have a full and relevant qualification to at least level 3. Full and relevant qualifications are defined as qualifications that demonstrate depth and level of learning appropriate to specified outcomes of full early years, childcare or playwork qualifications. The qualification should have valid, reliable assessment and awarding procedures and must include an element of assessed performance.

You also need to be, or be aspiring to be, a:

• manager of private, voluntary and independent nursery
• headteacher or leader of a school-based or maintained nursery
• childminder with leadership responsibilities