Wycliffe College (Gloucestershire)

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name = Wycliffe College


motto = Bold and Loyal
established = 1883
type = Independent school
head_name = Head
head = Mrs M.E.Burnet Ward
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city = Stonehouse
state = Gloucestershire
country = ENG
students = Approx 800
faculty =
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mascot = Griffin
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website = [http://www.wycliffe.co.uk www.wycliffe.co.uk]

Wycliffe College is a co-educational independent school located near Stroud, Gloucestershire, England. The school was founded in 1883 [Obtained from http://www.wycliffe.co.uk/senior/senior.htm] . The school is separated into three separate campuses, the Pre-Prep, the Prep School and the Senior School.

Pre-Prep

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

Wycliffe Prep

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.

The College

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.

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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. [Information from http://www.wycliffe.co.uk/senior/pages/squash.htm]

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. Wycliffe has regrettably been less successful in the sports over the last few years but the fantastic new sports hall, complete with cafe and gym, and the rugby stand really pinpoint the aim for sporting excellence.

Sports provided at Wycliffe are, For the boys;Rugby, Hockey, Football, Cricket, Rowing, Tennis, Volleyball, Gym, Athletics, Cross Country, Squash, Kickball, Badminton and Croquet.For the Girls; Hockey, Netball, Tennis, Rounders, Athletics, Cross Country, Rowing, Gym, Squash, Croquet and Badminton

Notable Old Wycliffians

Notable include:
* Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877-1947), Art Historian [ODNB Article by G. R. Seaman, ‘Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish (1877–1947)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/55201] , accessed 8 Oct 2007.] .
* Major-General William Wasbrough Foster DSO CMG, Canadian businessman, Police and Army officer
* Brian Fothergill (1921-1990), biographer [ODNB article by John R. Turner, ‘Fothergill, (Arthur) Brian (1921–1990)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/60663] , accessed 8 Oct 2007]
* Sir Michael Graydon, Chief of the Air Staff (1992-1997)
* Professor Jeffrey Harborne, botanist
* Somerville Hastings (1878-1967), surgeon and politician [ODNB article by John Stewart, ‘Hastings, Somerville (1878–1967)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/50372] , accessed 8 Oct 2007]
* William Moseley, actor
* Mike Osborne, jazz musician
* Ben Parkin MP
* Dr Mark Porter, medical doctor and media person
* Sir Franklin Sibly (1883-1948), geologist and university administrator [ODNB article by T. A. B. Corley, ‘Sibly, Sir (Thomas) Franklin (1883–1948)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36082] , accessed 8 Oct 2007] .
* Jon Silkin, poet
* William Stanier, railway engineer

Notable schoolmasters

References

External links

* [http://www.wycliffe.co.uk Wycliffe College]