NPQ Leadership induction – Autumn 2024

This year, we are putting a strategic spotlight on how we can maximise the impact of NPQ programmes to support the development of high-quality leaders for our schools – and help to retain them to lead schools in this area. 

To launch this with Autumn 2024 NPQ Senior Leadership and NPQ Headship participants, we took the decision to host a local induction conference, face to face, with delegates, speakers and facilitators.

Through delivering the conference in this way, we intended to give participants:

• A sense of belonging through increased networking opportunity with delegates on their course
• A focus on the place-based programme through increased emphasis on leadership here 
• Motivation and inspiration through the opportunity for additionality into the content

It is worth noting that the usual delivery of this part of the course is a national online session, run by UCL, with upwards of 300 delegates from across the country.

We invited a number of different people to be part of the facilitation, to introduce participants to colleagues from the area/sector:

Drew Duncan, the previous CEO of Tame River Education Trust, and one of EMTSH’s NPQ leadership facilitator and quality assurers, provided a Key Note focused on ‘why lead, and why lead here’ – this provided participants with a strong sense of motivation and an understanding of the local contextual priorities. 

Dr Andy Hodgkinson, Deputy Programme Director at UCL’s Centre for Educational Leadership, delivered the core components of the programme – this connected participants into the provider, UCL, and gave them a strong sense of the rich development the programme would offer them. 

• Louise Astbury, Director of Pinnacle Learning Research School, provided the session on the implementation project – utilising local knowledge to make suggestions about priorities for projects and how to structure projects for success in school.
• Five past delegates from NPQSL and NPQH courses spoke about their experiences, top tips and career opportunities having completed the NPQH/NPQSL with EMTSH. Click here or visit our news section to read some case studies from other previous participants.

Picture L-R: Neil Venables-Greaves – The Blue Coat School, Ed Mayell – Droylsden Academy, Jason Chadwick – Old Trafford Community Academy, Sahrish Mir – The Hathershaw College & Alan Brown – Hawthorns School,

Click here to read some of the feedback from the conference.

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