Leading Primary Maths
We are pleased to partner with education charity Ambition Institute to deliver the new NPQ in Leading Primary Mathematics.
In 12 months, participants will become an expert leader of primary mathematics and learn how to embed high-quality Mastery approaches to maths teaching in your school.
Those doing the training will learn:
- A new NPQ for primary maths leads
- Flexible learning to suit your timetable
- Fully funded for state schools
- Gain an NPQ in Leading Primary Mathematics
Benefits for you
Excel as a teacher
Delve deeper into the nuts and bolts of what makes an effective primary maths teacher, what good maths teaching looks like, and how you can lead others so they can learn from you.
Develop a positive maths culture
Learn how to create a positive attitude to maths in your primary school. You will learn how to develop systems that help your pupils overcome any maths anxiety and build their resilience to solving maths problems.
Design an effective maths curriculum
As a leader of maths, you will learn how to implement and lead an effective maths curriculum. You will be able to identify the maths knowledge that pupils need, identify gaps in their understanding and make changes to improve outcomes.
Build on your existing mastery expertise
This new NPQ will support you to embed mastery approaches to teaching maths in your school. You will also benefit from the design expertise of Ark Curriculum Plus, who have been working with primary schools for over a decade to develop effective approaches to teaching and leadership.
Invest in your future
Ongoing professional development helps you to grow and thrive as a primary maths leader. You will follow an evidence-informed framework and gain a professional accreditation at the end of the programme.
Train to your timetable
This programme is designed to fit around your teaching role and much of the work can be completed in bite-size chunks around your existing work timetable.
Connect with your peers
You will train alongside other teachers from similar school contexts. You can share your experiences and build a strong support network.
Benefits for your school
Improve maths teaching
Your maths leaders will learn techniques to improve the teaching of maths across your school. This includes creating an effective school-wide teaching through the careful sequencing of lessons as well as supporting teachers to understand and use evidence informed approached to maths teaching.
Create a ‘golden thread’
The new NPQs are all aligned. So, no matter what career stage your teachers are at, by joining this programme, they will benefit from an evidence-based framework. They will also share a common language with other NPQ participants that they can pass on to colleagues.
Access the latest learning
Teachers will bring evidence-based teaching and learning into classrooms, meaning high-quality teaching and improved pupil outcomes.
Identify future leaders
Competent and confident teachers who excel in their roles will be more likely to apply for middle or senior positions in your school when they arise.
Retain your teaching talent
By allowing teachers to develop and nurture their talents in specialist areas such as maths, you are investing in their future. This will boost their confidence, making them feel supported and less likely to apply for jobs elsewhere.
Tap into a network
Your teachers will train alongside peers from other schools with similar contexts, supported by facilitators who fully understand your needs.
Why choose CET?
Ambition Institute has designed this ground-breaking new NPQ to help you learn the essential knowledge and skills to successfully lead high quality, maths development and teaching in your school.
Ambition’s approach uses the latest research to help you put your learning into practice. You’ll train alongside other literacy leaders with similar responsibilities.
This is a new National Professional Qualification (NPQ) developed by the Department for Education (DfE). Each of the new NPQs share the same common language and framework to help drive improvement across schools and other educational settings.
With no project work and minimal time out of school, this NPQ is designed to fit around your busy timetable.
Curriculum
What you will learn
This programme follows the Department for Education’s National Professional Qualification (NPQ): Leading Primary Maths framework.
On this programme, you will learn how to:
- Understand what good primary maths teaching practice is and how to implement it.
- Embed mastery approaches to teaching maths in your school.
- Lead your school to teach maths effectively, working collaboratively with senior leaders and teachers.
- Develop your ability and capacity to improve the provision of maths across your school.
- Equip staff to plan effective primary maths lessons and stimulate your pupils’ thinking.
- Help colleagues to adapt their maths teaching to meet different needs.
- Align your professional development with wider school improvement priorities.
Note: programme content is subject to change.
How you will learn
Our NPQLPM is designed so you can engage in live, facilitated sessions alongside modules you can complete at any time.
The first cohort will start in February 2024.
The programme includes facilitator-led sessions with your peer group that focus on decision making. The programme starts with a one-day live conference.
Note: programme content is subject to change.
Assessment
Our NPQ courses no longer include a large project at the end. Instead, you will sit an ‘open book’ style assessment in which you respond to a short case study.
The assessment window starts at the end of the 12-month programme and runs for three months.
During this time:
- You will be given an eight-day window to complete the case study.
- There are two assessment windows every year, and participants can sit the assessment twice, if they need to.
- You need to pass the assessment and engage with 90% of the course to qualify for the NPQ accreditation.
- We will offer two webinars and live clinic in advance of the assessment window to support you.
Cost
Department for Education NPQ scholarship funding is available for this NPQ to all publicly funded schools and 16 to 19 educational organisations in England.
DfE-funded scholarships are available for this NPQ for all those who meet the following criteria:
- Teachers who have, or are aspiring to have, responsibilities for leading primary mathematics teaching across a school, key stage or phase.
- Be familiar with mastery approaches to teaching maths or be a subject leader in a primary school which is already engaged in the Teaching for Mastery programme or a similar programme.
Check if you are eligible
If you’re unsure whether you will qualify for this ‘pupil premium’ based on funding, please use Ambition’s online eligibility check tool.
To secure your funded place ahead of cohort launch, apply now.
*Currently nurseries are not available yet on the tool. If you work in a nursery, please contact Ambition directly at npqadmissions@ambition.org.uk
If you do not work in an eligible school, the NPQ for Leading Primary Maths costs £899 plus VAT.
To apply, you must be a teacher who has, or is aspiring to have, responsibilities for primary leading teaching in mathematics, numeracy, curriculum, teaching and learning, phase or a primary classroom teacher aspiring to lead.
Deadline for Online Applications:
Spring 2025
Contact npqs@cumbriaeducationtrust.org for further information
