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NCETM Accredited PD Lead Early Years 2025/2026
 

NCETM Professional Development Lead Accreditation is designed for those who lead professional development for teachers of maths.

 

Who can take part?
These programmes are for expert teachers of maths who have existing commitments and responsibility for designing, leading and evaluating maths teacher professional development, and who will lead maths professional development beyond their own institution. Participants must be based at a school/institution in England. Learn what's involved in the application process by downloading this information document.
 
What is involved?
The PD Lead Programme is designed for participants who are working with other teachers to enhance teaching and learning of maths.
Participants benefit from the equivalent of three one-day workshops (face-to-face and online). The completion of an Accreditation Evidence Document, which facilitates critical reflection on participants’ learning and the professional development they design, deliver and evaluate over the year, is also required. Participants will design, lead, review and refine a programme of support for maths teacher professional development, drawing upon a range of evidence-informed models and activity.
 
What will you learn?
  • You will design, lead, review and refine a professional development programme
  • You will critically evaluate your own professional development programme against your intended outcomes
  • You will identify key principles of maths CPD design and the implications of these for the programme you design 
  • You will recognise the key distinction between teachers’ knowledge of maths, and teachers’ knowledge of teaching maths
Participants will also have the opportunity to pay to work with the University of Chester and gain an academic award (PG Cert) for completing an enhanced version of the programme.
 
What is the cost?
The Professional Development Lead Programmes are fully funded by the Maths Hubs Programme so are free to participants and their schools.

 

How do I apply?
To find out more and apply, please visit the NCETM website.

 

Applications for the Professional Development Lead Programme close at 5pm on Friday 14 March 2025.

 

Podcast
 
New Early Years podcast episode on doubles
Two NCETM Early Years specialists take a look at doubles, one of the most useful and powerful foundational maths concepts. Take a listen here

 

How Early Primary Maths Influences School-Wide Teaching
Check out the NCETM Maths Podcast here
Two teachers at a school following a programme that concentrates on building firm foundations of early maths understanding explain how it has led to positive changes in the way maths is taught right up the school. 

NCETM resources

 
Materials to support Early Years and Year 1 teachers can be accessed on the NCETM website here
 

 

Numberblocks support materials

Article ImageNumberblocks, first broadcast in January 2017, is a pre-school BBC television series aimed at introducing children to early number.
The NCETM materials use each episode as a launch pad. They are designed to assist Early Years (and also Year 1) practitioners to confidently move on from an episode, helping children to bring the numbers and ideas to life in the world around them.
The materials are designed to be used in conjunction with the Numberblocks episodes.

 

Number Blocks at Home
Numberblocks at home: support for parents 
https://www.ncetm.org.uk/classroom-resources/ey-numberblocks-at-home