What is the NPQEYL?
Who should take the NPQEYL?
The National Professional Qualification for Early Years Leadership is aimed at experienced and effective practitioners who have, or aspire to have, additional responsibilities within their setting, or to run a setting such as a nursery. Currently, you will need to be qualified to at least Level 3 to take this course. You might be an Early Years teacher in a school, work in a nursery, or be a childminder who aspires to expand their provision and lead other colleagues. Whatever your current role or career aims, the NPQEYL will develop your ability to lead others in the Early Years to provide an excellent experience for young children.
What is the NPQEYL?
The National Professional Qualification for Early Years Leadership will equip you with the knowledge, skills, experience and network to know how to lead an early years setting. This course builds on the knowledge you already have as an experienced teacher, childminder or member of staff at a nursery, and focuses on what you need to know and be able to do to lead colleagues to help children develop in the most crucial years of their lives. You will learn:
- How to establish and sustain your nursery’s strategic direction
- How to embed an excellent culture in your nursery
- How to develop a high-quality curriculum which supports the development of very young children, including their language development, communication and literacy
- How to support children’s behaviour and social and emotional development in your setting
- How to monitor the progress children are making in your setting, and how to ensure all pupils’ needs are met without creating unnecessary workload
- How to develop your colleagues’ practice
- How to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders
- All the critical operational aspects of running a nursery, including safeguarding, admissions, risk management, HR and finance
Why do the NPQEYL with the National Institute of Teaching?
Expertise from the frontline: professional development delivered by people who work in schools, right now. Teachers want to learn from other teachers. Our programme content is delivered by excellent teachers and leaders working in brilliant schools, right now. They speak your language; they understand the challenges you face. Benefit from their deep expertise, real-world insights and practical strategies that have been tried and tested in today’s classrooms.
We show as well as tell. Our strong exemplification helps you put what you’ve learned into practice. We give useful and practical advice on how to problem-solve and apply learning in your own context, via exemplars from some of the best teachers and school leaders in the country.
Get a backstage pass to some of the best schools in the country – without leaving your office See what really happens on a normal day in a great school with our virtual visits – through the eyes of a great leader, but with expert narration to unpack and explain how practices were decided on, developed, implemented and sustained. You can experience the energy and dynamism of live teaching in action without the need for travel or disrupting a lesson.
Be part of something bigger. Join a movement of teachers creating lasting change.
✅ Be part of a network of passionate educators
✅ Be a catalyst for change
✅ Develop yourself, support others
Unlock the power of research. Our NPQs blend seamlessly with our in-house research and best practice function. Gain exclusive access to up-to-date research and invaluable insights, empowering you to implement evidence-based strategies in your practice.
Find out more about our NPQs here.