What is the NPQH?
What is the NPQH?
The National Professional Qualification for Headship will equip you with the knowledge, skills, experience and network to know how to lead a school. This course builds on the knowledge you already have as an experienced teacher and senior leader, and focuses on what you need to know and be able to do to effectively lead a school. You will learn:
- How to establish and drive your school’s strategic direction
- How to set whole-school culture, creating a safe and secure environment for pupils and adults to learn, work and develop
- How to ensure curriculum and lesson planning is effective across all areas of your school
- How to develop and maintain the quality of teaching in your school
- How to design and implement assessment practices which produce valid and reliable data, and how to drive actions based on this data through others
- How to ensure all pupils experience success and enjoy a positive school experience, including those for whom school is more challenging
- All aspects of statutory compliance you need to know as a headteacher, including safeguarding, exclusions, risk management, HR and finance
- How to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders
- All aspects of governance and external organisations you will need to manage as a headteacher
Who should take the NPQH?
The National Professional Qualification for Headship is aimed at experienced and effective senior leaders who have moved into, or aspire to move into, headship. You might be a serving Deputy Headteacher or a current Headteacher – whatever your current role or career aims, the NPQH will develop your ability to effectively lead a school.
Why the NPQH with the NIoT?
Our programmes are school-led: they are delivered by individuals who work in schools, right now. That means they have the in-depth, domain-specific knowledge to help you grapple with content at the right level, and to support you to problem-solve and apply learning to your own context.
Our programmes are centred on impact: our aim is for your practice to improve and develop in your current context, and for you to be ready and to take the next step in your career as a result of learning with us. We have designed our programmes carefully, and work closely with school leaders through our regional structures, as well as working with participants, to ensure our programmes are impactful in your context.
Our programmes are respectful of your time: we know you spend most of your time doing the most important job there is – serving the children in your community. That’s why our programmes are designed to be flexible, to deliver exactly what you need in the most time-efficient manner possible, and to have impact.
Our programmes are rooted in research: every aspect of what you learn is based on the best available research as well as what we have seen and experienced to work best in our founding multi-academy trusts and associate colleges.
Our programmes allow you to build a community: our in-person local seminars are focused on peer learning and problem solving together. As well as applying your learning to your own context, you will have the opportunity to build your network and support one another’s development beyond your time learning with the NIoT.
Find out more about our NPQs here.