Charlie Bicknell, one of our Year 13 Boarders kindly wrote this report for us about his recent experience at a sport science lab: I started cycling just over 1 year ago and I’ve been hooked from the beginning. Since then I’ve toured the country, ridden in mountain bike races, triathlons, and road races. In August [...]

On Tuesday 13th March we are going to see the wonderful RIC favourite Sir Patrick Stewart in Bingo, playing the bard himself at the Young Vic. The glory years of London behind him, William Shakespeare finds himself in an overwhelming moral dilemma. Like his greatest creation King Lear, he has to decide: what shall he [...]

Our keen Hostel students got into the swing of things last Sunday, capering through the canopy at Leeds Castle’s Go Ape, alongside Boarding supervisor Gary Castle.  

To get the year started, we have tickets to see Kevin Spacey as Richard III on Friday 9 September. Directed by Sam Mendes, this the final production of the Bridge Project for the Old Vic. Spacey has been acclaimed by the critics for his villainous, gleeful performance in this modern-dress production. There’s a great gallery of [...]

On 1st June A Level students had their End of Year Party at the Roffen club just round the corner from the college.  Though not quite the end of the year, the date was planned during the break in exams while all our students were still here. There was a scary moment when the venue [...]

Boarding student Nifemi’s account of the very successful Nigerian food night recently laid on by boarding students: We made the suggestion of holding a Nigerian food night at the boarding student council meeting, which is held every Friday morning.  Pauline and Maeva thought it was a brilliant idea, and so did Helen and Carole.  It [...]

RIC’s talent night is back for 2011! WANTED Jugglers and Contortionists, Singers and Dancers, Impressionists and Mime Artists, Magicians and Musicians, and anyone else with a bit of talent. Anyone interested in being part of RIC’s annual display of talent, determination and bravery should come along to one of the following meetings for more information [...]

The Young Vic is showing Tennessee Williams’s autobiographical play The Glass Menagerie, and we have tickets for the performance on Thursday 2 December. This dramatic masterpiece centres on young poet Tom and his difficult relationships with his overbearing mother and delicate sister as he struggles to support them.  Olivier Award-winner Deborah Findlay will star alongside [...]

  A group of RIC boarders spent this Saturday afternoon on a treasure hunt/urban walking tour/improvisational theatre adventure around the Southbank of London. A mysterious phone call advised us to be at the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, 1.30 pm, not early, not late, and look for a four-sided black bench. If we’d written these details [...]

  Students in Years 10 – 13 are invited to sign up to come and see Punk Rock on Tuesday 14 September. This acclaimed production focusses on the relationships between a group of students at the brink of exam time, and follows the labyrinth of peer pressure, chess playing and odd haricuts of adolescence.  More [...]