Early Years NPQ experiences please

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I'm thinking of taking up a funded NPQ in September and would be very grateful if you could share your thoughts and experiences please. I'm a qualified teacher in a maintained nursery school, with quite a bit of experience including deputy headship in a small maintained nursery school. Is there anyone with experience of the NPQ for Early Years Leadership? Is it more suitable for someone with less experience than myself? Or perhaps you are a nursery teacher who has taken on a different NPQ? I have no wish to teach in Primary, and I'm a bit concerned that the other NPQs might be more relevant to primary/ secondary but am open minded at the moment.

The other NPQs are very primary /secondary focussed. I've done one and we've done very little on EYFS and then only related to Reception, not even nursery.

Our EYFS lead has looked at the EY NPQ but worried that it's not so relevant to her because we only have reception classes and the NPQ seemed to be more relevant for those working 0-5.

I suppose it depends what you want your NPQ for. If you want EY knowledge and practice, do the EY NPQ. If you want to go into deputy and headship, do the NPQSL or NPQH but accept that you will primary be talking about primary and secondary and you'll have to relate the content to EYFS yourself. The case study will be primary or secondary in all NPQs other than the EY one so you may have to study a secondary case study and data but the course content may still be applicable to your role in a nursery school.