Course Essentials
On behalf of my colleagues in the School of Social Work, Education and Teacher Education, I welcome you to your School Based course and look forward to meeting you in September as you begin an exciting and rewarding journey into teaching. The course is designed to support you in becoming an outstanding teacher, with a strong emphasis on your active role in shaping and monitoring your professional development. We will guide you every step of the way as you progress toward becoming an outstanding beginner teacher.
Matthew Light
Course Director
Your Teaching Timetable
To help you plan your first few weeks, you can view an overview of the teaching activities for your course.
View your first semester teaching timetable.
On a mobile device, click the arrow next to “Search” at the top right of the page to view your timetable.
If your course is taught in groups, the overview will show activities for all groups. You will only need to attend sessions for your allocated group.
Once teaching begins, your individual timetable and group allocation will be available in MyTimetable provided you have completed online registration and created your computing account.
Key dates
Academic Calendar: Initial Teacher Education Semesters
View key dates for this Academic Calendar for 2026-27 including when teaching starts and finishes and when you break for holidays.
Welcome
Your Welcome Week is a vital part of setting you up for success. Attending all sessions will give you the tools, knowledge, and support to have a successful start to the course.
You’ll be introduced to the course technology that will underpin your learning and understand the importance of safeguarding in education.
A key part of your support system will be your Subject Tutor who will also be your Personal Academic Tutor. They are central to your success, providing academic guidance, pastoral support, monitoring your progress, and helping you access specialist services when needed.
Welcome Week is your opportunity to ask questions, make connections, and begin your journey with confidence.
Getting started
Our Welcome Pack outlines all pre-course preparation tasks. We expect you to complete these before you start the course. We will add to the list of activities as we approach the start date, so please check back regularly to see what your next task might be.
We will also use the Notice Board in the Welcome Pack to update you with course timetables, start dates, etc., as they become available.
Bursary/Scholarship
Students who are registered on an eligible Teacher Training Course may be offered a Department for Education training bursary. To allow the University to assess your eligibility for the bursary could we please ask you to fill in the bursary eligibility declaration prior to starting your course.
For more information on the bursaries available and the eligibility criteria please visit the Get Into Teaching website.
For queries, please contact training.funding@canterbury.ac.uk.
Your Must Do Tasks
There are some key tasks you'll need to complete to make sure you are ready to become a CCCU student.
Some of these can't be completed until you have been invited to register but your Occupational Health and DBS check can be completed prior to this. You will be prompted via My Record to complete these so make sure you are checking your personal email regularly for this. Please complete these checks as soon as possible
Registration invitations are sent towards the end of August. We'll send yours to the email address you used when you applied, so please check this inbox regularly to make sure you don't miss any important information.
Pre-course reading
All pre-course general and subject-specific readings can be found in the Welcome Pack
You can pre-order or purchase any of the books mentioned on this page through our University Bookshop offers a 10% discount on most print titles and some price-beating book bundles. They also price-match Amazon on core texts recommended in the module handbooks you will receive when you start in September.
Contact details
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