Students in the Lower School got together and organised a fundraising event for Comic Relief. For a few weeks leading up to the day, a large group of the students asked people to sponsor them to do Onesie Fridays. On the actual day loads of them came in wearing their onesies as well as some [...]

This term our Lower School students have been busy working with Drama teacher Deb to create some Christmas plays. The students themselves produced the ideas and the script and also made all their own props. Below are the plays that each year group put together and some pictures of the performances. Year 7 – Tomkins [...]

On Tuesday 13 November we will be holding our Parents’ Evening from 5:30pm – 8:00pm in New Road House where we will be serving refreshments throughout. We warmly invite you to come along to meet with your children’s teachers.  This year we are using an appointment system for the students to book specific time blocks with [...]

On the last day of term, Annika and our new sports teacher Jon Waite organised an activity morning for the Lower School. Unfortunately the weather didn’t quite hold out for us but they still managed to create a packed morning of activities to test our students’ puzzle solving skills and sporting prowess. Split into 4 [...]

Carmel has been busy inspiring our Year 8 students recently! Security will be at an all time high over Easter at RIC as it houses a fabulous collection of Faberge Eggs.  The eggs have been created and made by Year 8 and the designs are good enough to rival those of M Faberge himself. Take [...]

Last week Years 7 and 8 staged pantomimes in New Road House to the delight of parents and staff. Year 7′s take on Cinderella made stars of Oliver and Jude, who, as the ugly sisters, battled through petulent scenery to improvise a song-and-dance number that stole the show. The Year 8 show, which blended elements [...]

On Thursday this week, Carmel took Years 7 and 8 to London to prepare for their architecture art project in the New Year. Walking along Southbank they saw ionic Classicism, triumphant  Brutalism and the rising heights of the Shard. From the OXO building they got great views of the city and then skated in the [...]

Carmel is planning to take Foundation students to London on Thursday 8th December for a day of drawing, photography and ice skating. In past years this trip has been a great success and really boosted the architecture projects which they’ll be doing in the New Year. Students will need to bring gloves if they are [...]

Over the last couple of weeks our students have been out and about visiting the cathedral, the Turner Contemporary Gallery, Margate Shell Grotto, Chatham Dockyard, the London Film Museum and Thorpe Park. It has been a great end to the term, and we somehow avoided the worst of the weather and had a great time [...]

Sixth Form student Jack Fryer gives us a student’s account of the musical line up of the Summer Festival.  Warning: there may be some bias. RIC’s annual Summer Festival is a big event in the college calendar, and it was a highlight for me, not only because the music was great as usual, but because [...]