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Date

Starts on 01/06/2025

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Duration

12 months

Designed for

Aspiring middle leaders

Middle leaders

Curriculum

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Our NPQLT offers you a tailored programme of professional learning for the following colleagues:

  • For teachers who have, or are aspiring to have, responsibilities for leading teaching in a subject, year group, key stage or phase.

The programme will support you and your setting as follows:

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

Assessment

In order to complete NPQLT, you will be required to:

  • Attend all programme sessions.
  • Ensure a minimum of 90% engagement with the programme.
  • Complete a summative case study style assessment.

To support you in the completion of NPQLT, our offer includes as standard:

  • An engaging curriculum which blends face-to-face, online and self-study and which exemplifies the DfE standard for teachers’ professional development.
  • A supportive facilitator and peer network.
  • Local cohort groups to reduce travel time.

The Framework:

National Professional Qualification (NPQ): Leading Teaching Framework (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Dates, times & locations of training sessions

June 2025 – June 2026 (12 months)

Face-to-face sessions will be held at The Education Exchange, Spawd Bone Lane, Knottingley, WF11 0BZ.

Facilitators

Our facilitators are expert teachers and proven leaders working in schools throughout the hub communities.

Shane Lavery, Assistant Principal, Lower Fields Primary Academy

Shane Lavery is currently an assistant principal at Lower Fields Primary Academy. He has been a Year 6 teacher for the last nine years. He is also English lead, a role he has held in three different schools over the last eight years. In this role, he is tasked to ensure that all systems and approaches are informed by the most up-to-date evidence. English literature is a huge passion of his, having studied it at university before training to be a teacher. Additionally, as an Early Career Facilitator, he strives to develop new teachers to be the best that they can be.

Jane Elsworth, Deputy Headteacher and Director of Huntington Research School

Jane is a Deputy Headteacher and has had a number of secondary phase senior and middle leader roles in her career. She is a geography specialist and has over 25 years of teaching and leadership experience. Jane has led Huntington Research School since 2018 and has been a member of a number of EEF and DfE working groups, for example, The Pupil Premium Strategy and effective implementation practices.

Helen Bellinger, Programme Design & Development Lead, Exchange Teaching Hub, Knottingley.

Helen Bellinger is the former Director of Doncaster Research School having 30 years’ experience in teaching, leadership and school improvement roles. She has a proven track in supporting schools to improve outcomes for pupils as an Executive Headteacher, System Leader, School Improvement Partner, Pupil Premium Reviewer and Consultant. Helen has worked with many new and more-experienced school leaders. She has a strong awareness of both the challenges and opportunities which school leadership brings and is passionate about helping leaders to be the best they can be.

Next Steps

Apply now

We advise that you complete a pre-registration with your chosen provider for the best chance of securing funding.

The Department for Education (DfE) registration portal for the Spring 2025 cohort will open on the 10th February 2025, if pre-registered, your chosen lead provider will let you know when to register with the DfE.

 

🔗DfE Registration

For an exploratory conversation about which NPQ is right for you, contact NPQS@exchangeteachinghub.org.uk

Further Info

Scholarship funding

Funding for Spring 2025 will target those teachers and leaders who work in the most challenging schools or educational settings, serving more disadvantaged communities.

Scholarship funding to cover the full NPQ course cost will be available to teachers and leaders from:

  • the 50% of schools with the highest proportion of students who attract pupil premium funding
  • 16 to 19 educational settings identified as having high disadvantage
  • For the early years leadership NPQ, highly disadvantaged early years settings will also be eligible.

Scholarships will continue to be available to all teachers and leaders from publicly funded schools and 16 to 19 educational organisations for the following NPQs:

  • Leading primary maths
  • SENCO  (NPQSEN)
  • Headship (NPQH)

For the early headship coaching offer, funding to cover the course fees will be available if you are in your first 5 years of headship in England in a state-funded school or state-funded 16 to 19 organisation. You should also be doing or have done the headship NPQ.

For more information, follow the link below.

🔗NPQ Funding – Department for Education

Deferral or Withdrawal from an NPQ Programme

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 the following policies:

UCL’s NPQ Deferral and Withdrawal Policy. 

BPN’S NPQ Deferral 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.