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  • Wycliffe Preparatory School
    Ryeford Hall
    Stonehouse
    Gloucestershire
    GL10 2LD
  • Head: Mrs Helena Grant
  • T 01453 820470
  • F 01453 825604
  • E [email protected]
  • 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: 220
  • Religion: Christian Inter-denominational
  • Fees: Day £11,610 - £20,985; Boarding £27,195 - £36,525 pa

    Fees last updated: 03/07/2024

    Please note school fees are subject to VAT from January 2025. During this transition period, please contact school for full fee information.

  • Open days: September and March with smaller events throughout the year and personal tours always available
  • Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
  • Linked schools: Wycliffe College

What 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…

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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 Wycliffe’s 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. ...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

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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
HI - Hearing Impairment
MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment
OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability
PD - Physical Disability
PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication
SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty Y
VI - Visual Impairment

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