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 [...]

The AS Geography students took part in a field study with Rose-Marie comparing channel characteristics at four sites along the River Darent. They successfully hiked to the source of the river, collected data and produced some excellent field sketches. The weather was fantastic and although there were several pairs of wet wellies it was a [...]

On Wednesday 19th December Kelly will be taking her A Level Graphics students to the V&A Design Rooms in London for a day of research for their coursework project “London by Design”. The students will be meeting at 12 in the Art Room where they will be taking the train to London Victoria. Further details [...]

That time of year has come round again where all the hard work and stress of our poor 6th From students pays off. It’s A Level Results Day! We thought we’d give you all some information in case you have forgotten. The morning of the 16th your Personal Tutor will call you and go through [...]

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 [...]

A selection of works from our very own A level students in Fine Art, Graphics, Photography, Textiles and 3D will be in an exhibition at the DEAF CAT CAFÉ in Rochester High Street between Tuesday 12 June – Sunday 24 June 2012. The café is open seven days a week from 9.30am – 5pm and [...]

***CORRECTION. The trip will be on Monday 26th NOT Wednesday 28th. On Monday 26th March, we will be taking any students that are interested to see a production of The Master and the Margarita at the Barbican Theatre in London. This trip is open to all students and we only have a limited number of [...]

Back in February, four of our students got selected to take part in a film challenge organised by Medway Council. One of the students involved, Edward Smyth has written us a review of the experience: “Recently, over the course of three chilly and somewhat frosty weekends in February, myself and three other students at R.I.C. [...]

On Wednesday 7th March, Dominik will be taking our lucky sixth form photography students for a day out in London to experience as many exciting photography based activities as he can squeeze in! In the morning they will visit the Tate Modern to see the Tacita Dean Exhibition and short film and  its Photography exhibition. [...]

On Thursday 23rd February, Emily and Jonathon will be taking some of our sixth form students to the Bloomsbury Theatre to see a performance of 1984. “In an age of CCTV cameras, ‘Total’ policing, GPS tracking, rioting in Tottenham and revolution in Egypt, this deeply relevant production pins the audience under the glare of cameras, [...]