Wycliffe College (Gloucestershire)

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Wycliffe College
Motto - Bold and Loyal
Established	1882
School type	Independent school
Headmistress	Mrs M.E.Burnet Ward
Location	Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, UK
Students	Approx 800
Website	http://www.wycliffe.co.uk

Wycliffe College near Stroud, Gloucestershire is a co-educational English public school which was founded in 1882. The school is separated into three separate campus’, the Preprep, the Junior School (Preparatory School) and the Senior School.

1 Pre-Prep
2 Junior School
3 Senior School
4 Notable "Old Wycliffians"
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Pre-Prep

The Pre-prep is located within the same grounds as the Junior schools boarding houses and sports fields.

[edit] Junior School

The junior school has extensive sports grounds separated by a main road from the main campus. The pupils use a specially build bridge to cross over the road safely. The junior school has two boarding houses: Penwood housing the male boarders and Windrush housing the female boarders. The school amenities include and indoor swimming pool, performing arts centre and tennis courts.

[edit] Senior School

The senior school is located a five minute walk away from the Junior and Pre-prep campus.

The campus sprawls over a large area with classrooms, sports facilities and boarding houses all intermixed.

All students are separated into different houses, this is where both their prep rooms and common rooms are located. Most but not all the houses are single sex boarding houses. The exceptions to this are: Collingwood House which is a mixed sex house for day pupils and Loosley which is a mixed boarding house, solely for members of the sixth form.

The school has inter-house competitions, the most significant of which is the annual music competition. Other inter-house activities include house drama, house football, netball, hockey and Rugby.

Both the junior and senior schools have around 300 to 400 pupils.

the school offers many good sporting opportunities as well. the school has a proud rugby team successfuly starts a fight after every match. they also excel in hockey and rowing. the latter of which, although treated with some prejudice, has had some good successes.

[edit] Notable "Old Wycliffians"

Well-known former pupils are William Moseley, Li-En Yeung, Mark Blundell, Jack Gordon, Clement Li, Dr Mark Porter, Emiko Hayashi, Sir Thomas Collins KBE and Kemi Adeyoola, who was described as a "cunning, highly manipulative and devious" killer after being found guilty of murder at the Old Bailey on 27 June. ^[1]