May 27, 2013 Comments Off
Congratulations to all Year 9 and Year 10 students who successfully completed their practice expedition in the North Downs this past weekend. The eager young explorers arrived early Saturday morning with fully loaded rucksacks and sporting a variety of fashions from the fluffy pink fleece to the straw cowboy hat. After a full day of [...]
Read more...March 20, 2013 Comments Off
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 [...]
Read more...March 8, 2013 Comments Off
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 [...]
Read more...March 7, 2013 Comments Off
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 [...]
Read more...March 4, 2013 Comments Off
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 [...]
Read more...January 16, 2013 Comments Off
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 [...]
Read more...December 21, 2012 Comments Off
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 [...]
Read more...December 20, 2012 Comments Off
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 [...]
Read more...December 19, 2012 Comments Off
On Monday 17th December our wonderful catering staff put on a fantastic Christmas meal for the Lower School students!
Read more...December 3, 2012 Comments Off
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 [...]
Read more...November 6, 2012 Comments Off
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 [...]
Read more...June 12, 2012 Comments Off
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).
Read more...June 6, 2012 Comments Off
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 [...]
Read more...March 13, 2012 Comments Off
Robin and Dominik have decided to take our Year 10 art students down into Rochester today to visit the Art Gallery to see the Craft Case Exhibition. This should be a brilliant chance for our young artists to see some examples of art in different forms, combining the skills used in textiles to create a [...]
Read more...February 7, 2012 Comments Off
“Two girls earnest to marry, two gentlemen eager to respond, and one Lady earnestly hoping for cucumber sandwiches.” On Thursday 9th February some of our Year 10 students will be going to see a matinee performance of The Importance of Being Earnest at the Royal Haymarket Theatre in London. This is a great opportunity for [...]
Read more...February 1, 2012 Comments Off
On the 24th January, some of both our middle and upper school students went to see Lovesong at the Lyric Hammersmith theatre and one of our Year 11 students, Edward Smyth has written us a review of the evening: ‘”That is the story of our beginning. And this is the story of…the end” Lovesong is [...]
Read more...December 16, 2011 Comments Off
On Tuesday 7 February GCSE Music students are going to the Royal Festival Hall for a morning performance by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. They will be performing a range of set works for the GCSE exam in an interactive concert specially designed for students on the EdExcel specification. The only cost will be train travel, [...]
Read more...December 16, 2011 Comments Off
Lovesong intertwines the lives of a couple in their 20s with the same man and woman a lifetime later. Their past and present selves collide in this haunting and beautiful tale of togetherness. See here for more information. We have tickets for this beautiful production at the Lyric on Tuesday 24 January. Please sign up [...]
Read more...December 14, 2011 Comments Off
Thanks to all those who came to and performed at this year’s Christmas Concert. It was a great night with some really wonderful performances from our talented and hardworking students. Hope you enjoy the pictures!
Read more...December 9, 2011 Comments Off
By Oliver Page, Year 10… Last week some of the Year 9 and 10 Geography classes had the opportunity to meet an Arctic Explorer. During the lesson we found out what it’s like to live in the Arctic and the research they were doing over there. The lesson helped the Year 9 class in the [...]
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