In March our students attended a presentation awards evening at Rochester Cathedral. It was a great evening which commended all students in the Medway area who have completed their Duke of Edinburgh awards at all levels. The Bronze students who completed their award with Rose-Marie this year are: Oliver Page Lizzie Bradshaw Joe Sutton Beth [...]
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The Rochester Independent College Visual Arts Department holds their second exhibition, ‘Work in Progress’ at the Deaf Cat café in Rochester High Street from Tuesday 9 April – Monday 6 May 2013. This exhibition celebrates the fantastic work from GCSE & A level students in Fine Art, Graphic Communication, Photography and Textiles as they near [...]
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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 [...]
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Since October half term a collection of the Bronze and Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award candidates have volunteered their Thursday lunchtimes to complete projects in the garden. The students have recently worked really hard to prepare the allotments for planting up this spring. They have braved the cold snowy weather and recently started to enjoy [...]
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On Thursday 14 March we will be holding our Parents’ Evening for Years 7, 8 and 10 from 5.30pm – 8.00pm. We invite you to come along to meet with your children’s teachers. The evening will be based in New Road House where we will be serving light refreshments throughout. We hope that you are [...]
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On Wednesday 6th March, GCSE Drama students will be going to see ‘The 39 Steps’ at the Criterion Theatre in London. This is an important trip for the students as they will be writing on this performance as part of their exam. Students will need to meet in New Court at 1.00pm and will then travel [...]
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Louis Lord in Year 10 has kindly written a report for us on what he has been doing lately in his cycling career. “I’m training at Cadence Performance Cycling in Crystal Palace – working out on a new Tacx rolling road form of turbo training direct from the Netherlands. It is the only one in [...]
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In Year 10 students at Rochester Independent College complete one week’s Work Experience. The date for this will be the week commencing 24 June 2013. Work Experience forms an essential part of our curriculum, and provides students with a valuable opportunity to gain experience of the world of work and rise to the challenges of [...]
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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 [...]
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On Monday 17th December our wonderful catering staff put on a fantastic Christmas meal for the Lower School students!
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On Tuesday 5th February we will be holding our Year 11 Parents’ Evening from 5:30pm – 8:00pm. Further details will be included with the Year 11 Reports.
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On Friday 7th December, Year 10 and 11 Film Studies students will be going to the British Film Institute in London for a GCSE study day on television drama production. Students should arrive at school in time for registration as normal and will then travel by train to London before returning to Rochester at approximately [...]
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Recently Joe Sutton in Year 11 participated in the Cyclo-Cross event and kindly wrote us this report: “Hello I am Joe and last week I got chosen to represent our region in Cyclo-cross as one of the top riders. I was spotted by the commissaire at the beginning of the season for showing good commitment and [...]
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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 [...]
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On the afternoon of Monday 24th September, Year 11 students will be going on an Art research trip to London. This research is very important as it will help form a foundation for their GCSE portfolios this year. Students will be leaving at lunchtime so will need to bring a packed lunch along with their sketchbook [...]
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This week Rose-Marie took her Year 10 Geography students down to Reculver for the day to complete their controlled assessments. All of them did really well, despite the atrocious weather! None of her students got blown away and nobody got too wet (although the students may disagree).
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A few weeks ago it was Vegetarian Week! Whilst we have many meat happy staff and students in the college, on the 21st and 22nd May our canteen staff ran an entirely vegetarian menu for everyone to try. Up in Star Hill we had vegetarian pizza, quiche, curry amongst other choices and the students down [...]
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A group of our adventurous students went on two great Duke of Edinburgh expeditions at the end of May with Rose-Marie. They did really well, especially considering the temperature! The students will be presenting their projects at the summer festival this year so have a look out for them. In the meantime, we have some [...]
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On Monday 11th June, Rose-Marie will be taking the current Year 10 Geographers to complete the data collection for their controlled assessment. The students will be out for the full day and will be heading to the beach at Reculver to look at coastal management. The students will need to meet at the minibus at [...]
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On Wednesday 6th June we will be taking a group of students to see Love, Love, Love at The Royal Court Theatre in London and anyone from Year 10 upwards is welcome to come. “1967. Kenneth and Sandra meet, and it’s a whole new world. A fiery relationship is sparked in the haze of the 60s, [...]
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