Wycliffe closely support British Military families in every part of School and home life, from Nursery all the way through to Year 13. By offering excellent pastoral care and continuous support, we ensure all pupils and families have stability, security and flexibility in a strong and caring community.
For over 140 years, Wycliffe College has been expertly helping children write their own stories of challenges faced and opportunities seized. We hope to give you a sense of the purpose, aspiration and all-round nature of a Wycliffe education; we call it the “Wycliffe Way”.
Buildings are important but they do not constitute a school: they merely accommodate it. In this 52-acre corner of the Gloucestershire Cotswolds, we have created a place of learning like no other. Proudly non-selective but aspirational for all, there are few schools of our size and scale that can boast world-class facilities together with a wonderfully diverse community, broad curriculum and superb co-curriculum. Our pupil body, which is a balanced mix of local day pupils, boarders from across the UK and boarders from over 30 countries, is encouraged at every turn to look outwards and to critically assess its role and place in the world.
That world we are helping to prepare our children to enter is becoming ever-more challenging, complex and dynamic and we are an educational community which is continually adapting to this shifting context. We are not tied down by tradition but instead draw on our history to retain a resolutely grounded approach to life and learning, so that we can equip our young people with the right academic qualifications to succeed and the quiet confidence and spirit needed to thrive.
If the smiling faces and happy laughter I hear each day across the campus, replicated throughout this Prospectus, are anything to go by, I am confident we are getting it right. We do hope you will come and see for yourselves by paying us a visit.
For over 130 years, Wycliffe has supported the families and children of those serving in the British Armed Forces. Today, 33% of our Boarders are from military families, with the youngest in Year 3 at the Prep School. As a co-educational school for 3-to-19-year-olds, we can look after your children as they progress on their educational journey.
We accept children from the age of three as a Day pupil in our Nursery Class, and from Year 3 (age of 7) onwards in our Boarding School. Our military Boarding School is available for pupils aged 7–19 with Full and Flexi-Boarding options depending on your family’s needs. We aim to keep our class sizes in the Prep School at an average of 12 pupils, ensuring individual attention and focused learning.
Progress from Year 8 at the Prep School to Year 9 in the Senior School is a seamless transition with no entrance exam required. Nearly all of our pupils follow this route.
The Senior School (aged 13 and above) offers 20 GCSE options, including more unusual ones, such as Business Studies and Japanese. In Year 12, pupils can choose 28 options; including three BTECs/CTECs (Sport, Business and Digital Production) and the Extended Project Qualification.
At Wycliffe, we support military families through their education and home life by offering flexible Boarding facilities for all pupils aged 7–19. We offer a variety of options including full-time Boarding, Flexi-Boarding for Day pupils who may only need to Board for a few nights a week to occasional Boarding, which can be ideal for families requiring Boarding on a one-off basis. We also offer local Boarding where pupils can go home on the weekends so there is an option to fit every family’s needs.
Our offer for Forces families is one of the most generous amongst UK independent schools – as a parent on active service with the British Armed Services, you pay only 10% of the full fee.
A Day and Boarding school for children from age 3 to 19 years old enabling siblings to stay together for their education.
Lots of Forces Boarders and a few from abroad… Weekends great fun and, though Boarders are able to go out, there tends to be an inflow of Day pupils staying for special activities rather than a general exodus.
We encourage our pupils to write their
own story so they are ready to embrace
their futures.
Wycliffe has a private fleet of modern minibuses that can bring pupils to and from School from all over Gloucestershire and surrounding counties. This is a private bus service for the use of Wycliffe and will pick up and drop off Day pupils from bases that are within around an hour of the School.
Whether you are based in the UK or posted overseas, we are very reachable by train, car or airplane. The School campuses are a short walk (approximately five minutes) from Stonehouse Train Station which has a direct service to London Paddington in 90 minutes. Heathrow Airport is just in two hours away.
If you are posted overseas, you can be reassured that your child will be safe, cared for and enjoying School life as we organise transport at the beginning and the end of the holidays to any airport.
We are within easy reach of the major Army and RAF bases across the South West including Fairford, Imjin Barracks, Buckley Barracks, MOD Abbey Wood, Brize Norton and Duke of Gloucester Barracks, with excellent road transport links (we are only one mile from M5 Junction 13) and Stonehouse Train station is just a few minutes away.
We would love to welcome you to Wycliffe for a tour around our busy, contented, Cotswolds Campus.
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We’re here to answer any questions. Find out how to apply for Wycliffe Boarding School and the CEA scheme, or for further support, please contact our dedicated Admissions Team at admissions@wycliffe.co.uk
