WYCLIFFE COLLEGE (GLOUCESTERSHIRE)

'Wycliffe College' is a co-educational public school located near Stroud, Gloucestershire, England. The school was founded in 1882^[1]. The school is separated into three separate campuses, the Pre-Prep, the Prep School and the Senior School.

Contents

Pre-Prep

Prep School

Senior School

Sport

Notable Old Wycliffians

Notable schoolmasters

References

External links

Pre-Prep

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

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.

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 music competition. Other inter-house activities include house drama, house football, netball, hockey and rugby.
Both the Prep and Senior schools have around 300 to 400 pupils.

Sport

Wycliffe is well known across the country as being a major squash-playing school, due to their recent and previous success in the squash court. Many of the pupils choose to do squash as an out of school activity. The large number of students playing squash has led to many of these squash players being world and country champions. ^[2]
Wycliffe also excels in hockey and, most notably, rugby. The under 15s won the district cup in 2007 and the under 16s came close, but were beaten in the final. Rugby is the most popular sport in Wycliffe and the school excels at it. However, various pupils who are passionate towards football have been disappointed with the school's attitude towards football. They are asking for specific football trainers. This would certainly be a way for the school to advance their achievement in the sporting section of school life, although football is not the main sport of this school, so should not be granted as much attention as rugby or squash.

Notable Old Wycliffians

Notable include:

★ William Moseley

★ Dr Mark Porter

★ William Stanier

★ Major-General William Wasbrough Foster DSO CMG

★ Professor Jeffrey Harborne

★ Ben Parkin MP

★ Jon Silkin

Notable schoolmasters

★ Michael Scott-Baumann

References

1. Obtained from http://www.wycliffe.co.uk/senior/senior.htm
2. Information from http://www.wycliffe.co.uk/senior/pages/squash.htm

External links

★ Wycliffe College