NPQ in Early Years Leadership (NPQEYL)

Programme Breakdown

The NPQEYL is designed for setting leaders qualified ideally to at least level 3, who are or are aspiring to be: a nursery manager, headteacher of school-based or maintained nurseries, or a registered childminder with leadership responsibilities. Settings must be Ofsted registered.

Designed with busy early years practitioners/teachers in mind, the NPQEYL is delivered using a blend of online seminars, flexible online learning and face to face conferences.

How will I learn?

You will broaden your leadership knowledge and gain the specialist expertise needed to tackle your organisation’s improvement priorities with content covering the breadth of knowledge you need as a leader.  

Modules include:

• Organisational management
• Culture
• Child development and curriculum
• Communication, language and literacy
• Personal, social and emotional development
• Assessment
• Additional special educational needs and disabilities
• Professional development
• Working in partnership
• Implementation

How will I benefit?

• Get the tools to implement and sustain meaningful change in your setting.
• Learn how to create an effective culture and align your staff in your setting’s mission.
• Build a thriving environment in which all staff  and children feel supported and valued with opportunities to develop.
• Become a part of the community of leaders across Early Years settings and contexts and learn how they faced and overcame similar challenges. 
• Learn how to embed a culture where all children can succeed
• Greater insight into the systems and sources of effective leadership practice