Sport @ RIC
At Rochester Independent College we take our Sport provision very seriously and aim to provide our students with an enriching experience developing sporting skills and promoting fitness for all.
We offer an adaptable curriculum which focuses on innovation and inclusion for all with new sports added regularly to cater for our diverse student body. Sports provided at RIC include - football, netball, basketball, quidditch, korfball, dodgeball, softball.
We have close ties and connections with local sports centres meaning we can utilise top of the range facilities. Onsite, our fully equipped gym and multi use games area enable our students to stretch their legs and keep fit at lunch times, we offer a range of extracurricular clubs open to all students.
In 2022/23 we secured the School Games Mark Bronze Award. This award is a Government led award scheme facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward and recognise a school's engagement in the School Games against a national benchmark and to celebrate keeping young people active. As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas of participation, competition, workforce and clubs, and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.
Fixtures and Competitions
Our sports calendar is heavily populated with a variety of events including - Medway Secondary School Games, local fixtures, sports festivals, and national competitions. We ensure to cover a range of sports and competition levels to cater for as many students as possible. We pride ourselves in offering all of our students an opportunity to represent the college, with 91% of our KS3 students representing the college in sport in 2022/2023.
After a successful year of dodgeball, competing in various competitions, we were shortlisted for the British Dodgeball Secondary School Awards 2023. We have a strong club link with Canterbury Crocodiles Dodgeball Club, our students have benefited from coaching clinics from the club.
We have links with other local sports clubs too - Kent Crusaders Basketball, Olympia Boxing, Tornandoes Korfball, Medway Rugby Club and Medway Sport. Which allows students to access sports coaching in and out of college.
Sports Leadership
Students in Year 9 and above can complete Sports Leadership courses during their time at RIC. Our sports leaders regularly support younger students by leading activities, including our very own student led Sports Festival which launched in 2023. Links with Medway Sport have allowed students completing Level 1 and Level 2 qualifications in sports leadership to access various coaching awards. Current students Charlie, Dylan and Ethan have completed the 1st 4 Sport Level 1 Award for Activators (Multi-Skills).
GCSE PE students take part in the Inside Sports Science Research project in conjunction with Kent University. Our most recent project investigated fatiguing effects of exercise on counter movement jumps. The project includes researching, analysing and producing findings in a university style research poster which is presented to university lecturers, teachers, parents and peers.
Nurturing talent
We currently have a number of talented sports people at the College including national swimmers, Fencers, BMXers and roller skaters. We are very happy to support these students to juggle their studies and sporting schedule, ensuring a high achieving academic and sporting life. Current student Elsa Rendall-Todd is a talented BMXer and regularly places in competitions. Siblings Harri and Oskar Picton Tully are national Fencers and regularly attend competitions. Former student Noah Jennings, was the recipient of the Swale Combined Athletic Club's Under 13's award. Genevieve Hunter went on to study in the US with a swimming scholarship. Other former pupils with sporting prowess include: James Flury who joined RIC’s sixth form after GCSEs at Gravesend Grammar who was ranked 42nd nationally for mountain biking, and Ollie Mangion, who completed his A levels at RIC who was selected for the Tokyo Paralympics in 2020
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At my old school we just did 3 or 4 sports but here we’ve already done skiing, archery, trampolining and bowling this term. I also do lots of sport outside school – rugby, swimming and I play hockey for Kent.
