National Professional Qualification in Leading Literacy (NPQLL)

You’ll become an expert leader of literacy and learn its importance in enabling young people to reach their full potential.

Eligibility: Designed for teachers who lead, or aspiring to lead, on literacy in any phase of education. This includes teachers, heads of departments, teaching development leads and senior leaders.

Duration: A 12 month specialist qualification 

Curriculum:

This programme follows the Department for Education’s National Professional Qualification for Leading Literacy Framework.

You will

• Learn how to support staff of all subject specialisms to develop pupils’ language and literacy skills
• Learn how pupils develop aspects of literacy, including:
  • understanding how children learn to talk, and how developing effective spoken language supports literacy development at every age and stage
  • understanding how children learn to become fluent readers and how teachers can help with this, from primary all the way through to secondary
  • exploring the importance of subject-specific vocabulary and different strategies for teaching this
  • knowing how to support pupils’ writing – whether learning to write in primary school, through to writing academically at key stage five
•  Learn how to support, develop and teach pupils literacy using evidence-informed approaches
•  Learn how to lead literacy through curriculum, culture and motivation
•  Understand how effective literacy education can support your school
•  Contribute to effective professional development for literacy; linking it to teaching, the curriculum and assessment across the school.

How you will learn:

The programme is delivered with a mixture of face-to-face and virtual sessions. The programme starts with a full-day Conference to introduce you to the structure and content of the course, allowing you to meet your Visiting Fellow and the wider NPQ cohort.  

Each of the six courses within the programme is taught through a combination of self-study modules, a mixture of virtual and in-person Clinics, and peer-led Community sessions. You will also be allocated a study partner to complete online learning with and discuss reflections. 

The North-West London Teaching School Hub team will be supporting you throughout your learning journey on the programme, tracking your progress and acting as your point of contact. 

Assessment:

There is no project work required for this NPQ. At the end of the 12 month course, you will be given an eight-day assessment window to sit an ‘open book’ style assessment in which you respond to a short case study. We will offer a webinar and live clinic before the assessment window to support you in preparing for your assessment.

Cost:

From September 2024, a limited number of fully-funded NPQLL spaces will be available for participants working in schools with the highest 50% of pupil premium pupils.

Fully-funded spaces are filled up quickly, therefore we always advice early applications.

If you do not work in an eligible school, or all fully-funded spaces have been filled, the cost of the NPQLL is £899 + VAT.

If you’re unsure whether you will qualify for this ‘pupil premium’ based on funding, please use the Ambition Institute online eligibility check tool, and/or contact us at npq@northwestlondontsh.org.uk and we will advice.

Facilitators:

Emily Walker-Nolan

Middlesex Learning Trust

Jennifer Afghan

Middlesex Learning Trust

Further Info:

Only in exceptional circumstances may a participant request either a deferral or withdrawal from their programme. Participants should be aware that there is a process to follow which is outlined in Ambition’s Institute’s Deferral and Withdrawal Policy

A participant considering withdrawal from an NPQ Programme should be aware that it is Department for Education Policy to only fund an NPQ course for a participant once. This means that a participant who starts a Department for Education funded NPQ course, and then withdraws from that course, will not be funded again for the same programme.