Wycliffe Preparatory School A GSG School
- Wycliffe Preparatory School
Ryeford Hall
Stonehouse
Gloucestershire
GL10 2LD - Head: Mrs Helena Grant
- T 01453 820470
- F 01453 825604
- E prep@wycliffe.co.uk
- W www.wycliffe.co.uk
- A mainstream independent school for pupils aged from 2 to 13 with a linked senior school
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Gloucestershire
- Pupils: 227
- Religion: Christian Inter-denominational
- Fees: Day £11,055 - £20,175; Boarding £25,185 - £33,825 pa
- Open days: September and March with smaller events throughout the year and personal tours always available
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- ISI report: View the ISI report
- Linked schools: Wycliffe College
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Despite sitting cosily in its corner of the Cotswolds, Wycliffe Prep is anything but parochial — armed forces families and international boarders provide a platform from which to leap into different cultures… families feel they have found, as one parent put it, ’the best around’. ‘School renowned for pastoral care but headmistress noted, ‘Being a humble school, we don’t shout loudly enough about our academics.’ ‘Every evening there’s the opportunity to get out of the classroom and play sport,’ celebrated a parent, with a myriad of extracurricular options…
What the school says...
Wycliffe is committed to fostering individual learning in all areas of the curriculum and pupils benefit from small class sizes with a high teacher to pupil ratio. One of Wycliffes aims is to cultivate each pupils unique talents and to bring out the best in its pupils by creating a supportive learning environment which promotes individual achievements in all fields. Specialist teachers ensure outstanding teaching delivery across the curriculum and a wide variety of extra-curricular activities enable the school to offer a fully-rounded education designed to develop confidence and self-esteem. Wycliffe enjoys excellent academic traditions and offers both academic and non-academic scholarships at 13+ for academic excellence, art, drama, music and sport. There are generous bursaries available for Forces families. ...Read more
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Other features
All-through school (for example 3-18 years). - An all-through school covers junior and senior education. It may start at 3 or 4, or later, and continue through to 16 or 18. Some all-through schools set exams at 11 or 13 that pupils must pass to move on.
School associations
Round Square - a network of 40 schools worldwide that share ideals such as internationalism, adventure and service.
Sports
Rowing
Fencing
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmistress
Since 2020, Helena Grant BEd. Her parents were career accountant and librarian, a fact that belies an ‘incredible childhood growing up in Hong Kong and travelling with my hobby anthropologist and explorer father’. TEFL course during A levels confirmed her vocation and after graduating from the University of Plymouth she took up her first teaching post in Devon. However, wanderlust swept her first to Greece, then on to Tanzania where she met husband, Steve. Mrs Grant kept education at the heart of her work, launching East Africa’s only educational children’s magazine, Jifunze. She then set up her own nursery school and developed a conservation education programme for an NGO called African People and Wildlife, which is still thriving. Moving with their young family to Kenya, she worked in IAPS District 4 Prep School, Hillcrest...
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Special Education Needs
See Wycliffe College entry for details. School is registered with CReSTeD, for the teaching of children with dyslexia.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| Aspergers | |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | Y |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | |
| Dyspraxia | |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | Y |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| PD - Physical Disability | |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| VI - Visual Impairment |
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