The Online Classroom & Term Dates

Accessing your lessons

Each week comes with a set of written information about your course and a recorded lesson for you to complete. This video lesson is available in the course menu.

Lessons are available at weekly intervals to allow you time to complete assignments and revise the content so far. It is important that you don’t rush through the course material as you will need time to practice the techniques that you have learnt.

Live Assistance:

Each week during term times, our distance learning students are invited to a live study group which is run to discuss your progress with your tutor. Although students will be at different points of the course, this is a great opportunity for you to ask any questions that you have and study alongside other students.
The weekly study groups are run every Tuesday at 4pm. All timings are UK Time. A link to the session is available on your feedback page.

These study groups are not recorded for data protection.

Assignments

Each week you will be set an assignment to complete that covers the course material for that week and previous learning. Assignments are uploaded using the course assignment tool and will be marked and returned to you within 14 days. Please read the Submitting Assignments lesson carefully.

Holidays & Important Dates

Tuition availability is based around term times only. No classes are scheduled in ‘holidays’.

Autumn Term (2023): 1st September 2023 – 15th December 2023

Half Term: Monday 23rd October 2023 – Friday 27th October 2023

Spring Term (2024): 2nd January 2024 – 28th March 2024

Half Term: 12th February 2024 – 16th February 2024

Summer Term (2024): 15th April 2024 – 23rd July 2024

Half Term: 27th May 2024 – 31st May 2024

Further dates TBC

Important: Exams should be booked in the September of the academic year that the student will be taking the exams in.