National Professional Qualification in Leading Primary Maths (NPQLPM)

You’ll become an expert leader of primary mathematics and learn how to embed high-quality mastery approaches to maths teaching in your school.

Eligibility: Designed for teachers who lead on teaching maths in primary schools. To apply, you must be familiar with mastery approaches to teaching maths, or be a subject leader in a primary school which has already engaged in the Teaching for Mastery programme or a similar programme.

Duration: A 12 month specialist qualification 

Curriculum:

This programme follows the Department for Education’s National Professional Qualification for Leading Primary Maths framework.

 You learn how to:

• Understand what good primary maths teaching practice is and how to implement it.
• Embed mastery approaches to teaching maths in your school.
• Lead your school to teach maths effectively, working collaboratively with senior leaders and teachers.
•  Develop your ability and capacity to improve the provision of maths across your school.
• Equip staff to plan effective primary maths lessons and stimulate your pupils’ thinking.
•  Help colleagues to adapt their maths teaching to meet different needs.
•  Align your professional development with wider school improvement priorities.

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, the DfE has changed NPQ funding. For NPQLPM, funding is available to all publicly funded schools and 16 to 19 educational organisations in England. 

Fully-funded spaces are limited and 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 NPQLPM is £899 + VAT.

Facilitators:

Sana Khokhar

North-West London Teaching School Hub

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.