Wycliffe College (Gloucestershire)

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

Wycliffe College is a co-educational public school located near Stroud, Gloucestershire, England. The school was founded in 1882. The school is separated into three separate campuses, the Pre-Prep, the Prep School and the Senior School.

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[edit] Pre-Prep

The Pre-Prep is located within the same grounds as the Prep School boarding houses and sports fields.

[edit] Prep School

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

[edit] Senior School

The Senior School is located a five minute walk away from the Prep and Pre-Prep campus. The campus sprawls over a large area with classrooms, boarding houses and sports facilities all intermixed. The school fields teams in the following sports: rugby, cricket, squash, rowing, football, tennis, netball, hockey and swimming.

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 house drama competition. Other inter-house activities include house music, house football, netball, hockey and rugby.

Both the Prep and Senior schools have around 300 to 400 pupils.

[edit] Wycliffe's Sports

Wycliffe is well known across the country as being a major squash playing school. Many of the pupils choose to do squash as a out of school activity. This high amount of students playing squash has led to many of these squash players being world and country champions.

Wycliffe also excels in hockey and, most notably, rugby. The under 15's won the district cup this season and the under 16's came close, but were beaten in the final.

[edit] Notable "Old Wycliffians"

Well-known former pupils are:

[edit] External links

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