Happy World Meditation Day

Today, across the globe people are taking the opportunity to press pause and reboot in celebration of world meditation day. A few weeks ago we posted 5 tips for mindfulness written by Nadia. Meditation and mindfulness have a huge relationship, however meditation is not just activities like Yoga, it can be much more than that!

At 12 noon the well known app ‘Headspace’ are going live on YouTube to give everyone the opportunity to learn how to meditate in ten minutes, explain how their app works, and enjoy a global mediation session from the comfort of our homes . You can join in via this link.

For our RIC students Nadia is running mindfulness sessions weekly on a Thursday 12:30pm as well as Monday at 4:15pm.

Jenny is also running online Yoga on a Wednesday at 4:00pm.

To finish with a quote from Nadia – “When you wake up or go to bed, think of 3 things in your day you are grateful for”.

Happy World Meditation day!

May 21, 2020 0

RIC Photo of the Month : May

The second month of our photography contest has certainly kept our RIC students busy. With two themes to choose from, this photography contest will run monthly with a theme based on relevant events of the time.

RICWW – What’s Been Going On?

Since lockdown, the way of schooling may have changed by entering the virtual world of RIC Without Walls, however our students’ efforts have definitely not. We asked our departments to feedback any new ways of learning, activities as well as any fun things that have been going on in their virtual classrooms.

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May 13, 2020 0

A Family of Blogs

RIC News is a part of our blog trio which also includes our Visual Arts Blog, as well as our Film & Media blog.

The RIC Visual Arts blog is full of exciting updates from our Creative Arts Department, like our portraits created by GCSE & A Level students as their first project. News about the ever changing art world & in-house creative contests like our RIC Photo of the month.

Our Film & Media blog follows the journeys of our students’ work as well as everything that is happening within the department and courses.

To follow us for regular updates about what’s fresh at RIC! Click the link on the homepage

May 12, 2020 0

Calling All Budding RIC Photographers

Are you a RIC student or staff member who has a passion for photography? Then you should enter our RIC Photo of the Month contest.

Each month there are two themes to work with and photos can be taken on any device available. Be experimental playing around with closeups, zoom, shadow, composition, colour etc.

The contest has three categories; Lower School, Sixth Form & Staff.

This Month’s Themes:

MyHometown
In the Garden

How to enter:
Take your own photo relating to the theme & upload it to this Google Form link : https://forms.gle/xakS5wBwLFUaSvQ47

Deadline:
20th May, Midday (12pm) Winners announced via the school’s blogs after judging by Michael Daks.

Prizes!
Winning entries will be featured on our RIC Visual Arts Blog & student winners (one per category) will also receive an experimental photography book full of projects to inspire!

Check out our last month’s winners here

Have fun & Good Luck!

May 7, 2020 0

RIC Chickens’ Diary

During the lockdown our RIC chickens were temporarily re-homed with one of our students. We have since had an update of their time on the farm, including some photos of them enjoying their break away from the RIC garden.

May 5, 2020 0

RIC Photo of the Month: April

While we have all been staying at home, to keep up the sense of RIC community we have curated a new photography contest to keep our RIC students’ creativity growing. This photography contest will run monthly with a theme based on relevant events of the time.

The Virtual World of RIC

Embracing the world of virtual schooling in conjunction with our RIC Without Walls online programme, our PE department have created RIC Fit, an online platform for fitness training at home.

Our Community Learning group have also curated, RIC Random Acts of Kindness. A platform of activities for families & communities as well as stories on what our staff & students are giving back.

Launching today is our RIC Virtual Common Room for our boarding students. An online space to connect, communicate, create, share and simply catch up!

April 27, 2020 0

Five Tips for Mindfulness

Mindfulness is all about maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment. With all of us working from home it can be more difficult to keep that work/home balance all in one place.

To help with this our very own Nadia is hosting two live mindfulness sessions per week for students which can be found & joined via this link. Nadia has also put together five mindfulness tips for you to try at home.

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