NPQLPM (National Professional Qualification for Leading Primary Mathematics)
- Programme starts: Autumn 2025 (date TBD)
- Duration: 12 months
- Cost: £1,375
Interested in enrolling in this NPQ programme for Autumn 2025?
The first step is easy. Just let us know your interest by completing the NPQ Interest Form, and we will take you through the journey step-by-step.
This programme is for:
- Teachers and leaders with responsibility for leading maths across a primary key-stage or school, or those who want to have this responsibility.
- Teachers familiar with mastery approaches to teaching primary maths, who want to improve leadership skills in this area.
- Subject leaders in a school already engaged in the primary Teaching for Mastery programme or similar programme.
What you will learn:
- Developing Primary Mathematics – you will learn how to shape a culture of maths across your Primary setting and develop a deep understanding of how pupils learn mathematics becoming skilled in leading staff to develop pupils interconnected understanding of concepts, their procedural fluency and automaticity in key number facts.
- Teaching – you will learn how to support teachers at all levels in your school, key stage or phase to develop their knowledge and classroom skills in teaching primary mathematics
- School culture – you will strengthen your ability and that of your colleagues to contribute to a school culture in which pupils can thrive and succeed and have a positive attitude towards mathematics.
- How pupils learn – you will deepen your knowledge of the best ways to develop, adapt, embed and practice good models of learning across the whole school community, key stage or phase.
- Subject and curriculum– you will learn how to support and improve high quality lesson design, teaching, learning and assessment in primary mathematics.
- Professional development – you will deepen your knowledge of the best ways to provide effective professional development in mathematics curriculum, pedagogy and assessment across the whole school community.
- Implementation – you will learn how to implement change successfully within your context by understanding the stages of implementation and applying them with the support of your facilitators and colleagues.
Interested in exploring other NPQ Specialist Programmes?
Click on any of the programmes below to learn more.
NPQ Leading Teacher Development (NPQLTD)
For teachers who have, or are aspiring to have, responsibilities for leading the development of other teachers, curriculum leads, mentors or trainees in their school.
Cost: £1,375
NPQ Leading Teaching (NPQLT)
For teachers who have, or are aspiring to have, responsibilities for leading teaching in a subject, year group, key stage or phase.
Cost: £1,375
NPQ Leading Behaviour and Culture (NPQLBC)
For teachers who have, or are aspiring to have, responsibilities for leading behaviour and/or supporting pupil wellbeing in their school.
Cost: £1,375
NPQ Leading Literacy (NPQLL)
A teacher who has, or aspires to have responsibility for leading literacy across a year group, key stage, phase or school.
Cost: £1,375
What’s unique about our programme:
In addition to the DfE required content, our programme includes an Implementation Project which provides you witha great opportunity to reflect on and apply what you have learned throughout the programme in the context of yourschool, aligning to the EEF process model for school improvement (not assessed).
Programme route map:
Interested in the detailed structure, timeline and the hours you can expect to invest in the programme? Click on thebelow route map to learn more.
Assessment and accreditation:
To receive the DfE accreditation, you will need to (1) ensure 90% engagement in the programme throughout, and (2)pass the open-book summative case study task scheduled for an eight-day period following the programmecompletion.
Interested in exploring other NPQ Specialist Programmes?
Click on any of the programmes below to learn more.
NPQ Leading Teacher Development (NPQLTD)
For teachers who have, or are aspiring to have, responsibilities for leading the development of other teachers, curriculum leads, mentors or trainees in their school.
Cost: £1,375
NPQ Leading Teaching (NPQLT)
For teachers who have, or are aspiring to have, responsibilities for leading teaching in a subject, year group, key stage or phase.
Cost: £1,375
NPQ Leading Behaviour and Culture (NPQLBC)
For teachers who have, or are aspiring to have, responsibilities for leading behaviour and/or supporting pupil wellbeing in their school.
Cost: £1,375
NPQ Leading Literacy (NPQLL)
A teacher who has, or aspires to have responsibility for leading literacy across a year group, key stage, phase or school.
Cost: £1,375
Benefits to you:
Benefits to you: s in a school already engaged in the primary Teaching for Mastery programme or similar
programme.
You will be able to:
- Develop the skills, confidence and knowledge to implement a detailed and coherent mathematics curriculum successfully through a supported implementation project.
- Develop the skills to implement meaningful interventions as part of a whole school, phase or key stage mathematics approach.
- Learn how to help pupils develop ways to improve their automaticity, fluency and problem solving skills developing confidence that transpires into academic progress.
- Learn practical approaches to develop pupils’ logical thinking and reasoning skills in your school context.
- Recognise the key elements of pupils’ mathematical learning trajectories from Reception to Key Stage 2.
- Access research and materials and have many opportunities to discuss mathematical approaches and the mastery model with other teachers.
Benefits for your school:
- Create professionally confident teachers and leaders.
- Grow the next generation of leaders with the skills and knowledge to use the evidence-base for the benefit of their children and young people.
- Retain the best teachers who are excellent, collaborative role models for their schools and communities.
- Inspire leaders who can harness the power of rich learning environments for their children and young people no matter the current circumstances.
Watch: Laura Yandell, Deputy Head, AISL Harrow Hong Kong International School, discusses how NPQ programmes help develop a strong leadership pipeline for the school.
Interested in exploring other NPQ Specialist Programmes?
Click on any of the programmes below to learn more.
NPQ Leading Teacher Development (NPQLTD)
For teachers who have, or are aspiring to have, responsibilities for leading the development of other teachers, curriculum leads, mentors or trainees in their school.
Cost: £1,375
NPQ Leading Teaching (NPQLT)
For teachers who have, or are aspiring to have, responsibilities for leading teaching in a subject, year group, key stage or phase.
Cost: £1,375
NPQ Leading Behaviour and Culture (NPQLBC)
For teachers who have, or are aspiring to have, responsibilities for leading behaviour and/or supporting pupil wellbeing in their school.
Cost: £1,375
NPQ Leading Literacy (NPQLL)
A teacher who has, or aspires to have responsibility for leading literacy across a year group, key stage, phase or school.
Cost: £1,375
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