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Japanese teacher Mrs Suzui, with the help of a dedicated team of pupils, managed to raise an amazing 600 for the IWATE Japanese Tsunami Orphans Fund from the sale of 3,000 Wycliffe Pray for Japan, Christmas cards.

Wycliffes chapel held a charity auction, Bid for a Butler in aid of Cancer Research UK.

Wycliffe invites you to an Evening with Sarah Connolly CBE on Saturday 10th March 2012 at 7.30pm

Alex Gidmans benefit committee is delighted to announce the dates of his two benefit year launch events, a fabulous evening in Bristol with two sporting greats, a 2005 Ashes winner and 2003 Rugby World Cup winner and an intimate evening at the Old Brewery in Greenwich, London for beer and cricket lovers hosted by Angus Fraser and Roger Dakin.

Wycliffes rugby stars have won through to the regional final of the Daily Mail Vase, which will be played tonight at Stroud RFC.

On Friday 20th January, as part of our Business and Enterprise Day, Wycliffe Year 9 had an opportunity to develop a valuable range of skills working in small teams led by leaders from local businesses.

The Education Secretarys statement criticising the teaching of ICT in schools has shown once again how Wycliffe College is ahead of the game.

On Friday 6th January, The rape of Lucrece came to life its one of Shakespeares least known works, a poem.

On Wednesday 11th January, the Modern Foreign Languages Department put on "English is not enough" - a morning of activities and talks to show Year 9 the importance of languages in the workplace.

In the first week of the Christmas holidays, 16 students and two members of staff set off across the Atlantic for a whirlwind tour of Americas capital.

On Wednesday 30th November, Wycliffe College premiered the long awaited and memorable production of Phillip Pullmans novel His Dark Materials, adapted by Nicholas Wright.

Mark Cummings of BBC Radio Gloucestershire visited Wycliffe earlier this morning to conduct interviews with pupils, teachers and support staff as part of his regular show and tell feature, where he talks to local state and independent schools on various topics and current affairs.

Language teacher Lisa Gomez, will be attending the 2012 Games in the important role as Gamesmaker.

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club has recently announced that former pupil, Alex Gidman, has been awarded a benefit year in 2012

On Saturday 19th November, Wycliffe hosted its Step Back in Time 1940s inspired Dinner Dance with an Auction of Promises.

Wycliffes ICT department recently ventured to Cirencesters very own App developing company called Neon Play.

Wycliffe Choral Society is giving a concert of Music for Christmas on Sunday 27th November with a suitably festive programme.

This is the name given to our unique semi-professional company that seeks to provide quality entertainment for the local community. Our current production will be daring and spectacular.

For a week in November, Wycliffe College will once again play hosts to our partner Japanese School, Ashiya High School.

On Thursday the 10th of November, the Haywardsend girls gathered in the office to unveil our latest surprise.

Wycliffe's Model United Nations started off its year with an international conference at Lorentz Lyceum in the city of Arnhem, Netherlands.

Wycliffe College is hosting the inaugural conference of its prestigious European Comenius Project between November 13th - 18th.

The 1st and 2nd VII Netball tour to Malta was hugely successful and enjoyed by all.

On Monday 10th October, the College Choir travelled to Gloucester Cathedral to sing Choral Evensong in this truly magnificent building.

Wycliffes 1st XV have won the opening match of their rugby tour of Poland, beating the national A side by 16-0 at the national rugby stadium at Gdynia

Sunday 9th October saw the annual Wycliffe Orchestral Festival take place in the Sibly Hall.

CSM Gwilym Wyn-Jones had been appointed as a Lord Lieutenant Cadet and is one of eight cadets to represent the County of Gloucestershire.

Neil Carmichael, Conservative MP for Stroud since May 2010, dropped into the Politics classroom on his way to the Annual Conference at Manchester to face Wycliffe's Sixth Form Politics students.

OW, Will Gidman has capped a superb debut season with Gloucestershire Cricket Club by being named the club’s Player-of-the-Year.

On Wednesday 21st September Year 9 and staff, descended upon the Miserden Estate in Gloucestershire for the annual Miserden field activities trip.

On Tuesday 20th September, the ‘Wycliffe Pray for Japan’ Fund raising team organised a ‘Bag2School’ collection to raise money for the education and welfare of 92 children orphaned by the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.

Stroud Fire Station kindly hosted a visit for a group of GCSE Applied scientists. They experienced at firsthand what it is like trying to rescue people trapped in a smoke filled room using thermal imaging cameras.

Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Orphans’ Fund

Sunday 9th October saw the annual Wycliffe Orchestral Festival take place in the Sibly Hall.

On Thursday 8th September, the much anticipated Costa branded ‘Griffin’ coffee shop opened for service!

Pupils returned to Wycliffe this September to discover that Lampeter House had been transformed over the course of the Summer break!

The Wycliffe Junior Open held over the August bank holiday weekend was a huge success for the College.

Wycliffe’s pupils have exceeded all expectations in this year’s GCSE exams, with top academic students as well as the school’s lower ability pupils celebrating outstanding personal achievements.

Wycliffe’s Head, Margie Burnet Ward has congratulated pupils on another excellent set of A level results this morning.

Vote of Thanks by Greg Mason, Head Boy.

Wycliffe Golf Society held its first Golf Championships on Wednesday 6th July.

The Year 10 Art students were transported into a world of creativity where they worked all day with local artist Anne Maliphant.

David Drew, the former Stroud Labour MP came to talk to the Development Year Students at Wycliffe College.

Wycliffe’s Junior Polo team participated in the National Schools U16 Polo Tournament at Longdole Polo Club.

This year’s Oscar Awards party was a delightful evening, complete with classroom outtakes, beautiful awards and convivial company.

Seven Year 9 pupils took part in their Bronze-qualifying venture last weekend.

Two talented Year 9 pupils, Georgie Chillingworth and Lara Bathurst have spent the 2010-11 netball-training season in the company of the cream of the county’s talent while receiving coaching sessions at the Gloucestershire Satellite Netball Academy, at the Oxtalls Campus in Cheltenham.

As part of the preparation process for the newly appointed Year 12 prefects and the head of Houses, twenty-two pupils and their Sixth Form tutors took part in a team building session at the Head 4 Heights Aerial Adventure Centre in South Cerney.

Breaking news… Due to an increased demand in pupil places, Lampeter Boarding House moves into its final phase of development and will be completed in time for the start of the Autumn Term in September.

Former Wycliffe pupils, Tim Payne and Charlie Sharples have both been picked by Martin Johnson for England’s 45-man World Cup training squad announced this week.

Music for a summer evening featuring the wind players of Gloucestershire Symphony Orchestra

Like a black cloud flying silently across the tennis courts, a swarm of bees arrived at Wycliffe on Tuesday afternoon.

When the Wycliffe 1st team clashed with the OWs on the 7th May, the close loss last year was very much on our minds.

Wycliffe string players benefitted from the professional touch when they were visited by the world famous Carducci String Quartet at the Prep School Studio Theatre on Tuesday 14th June.

Wycliffe College Boat Club was both delighted and privileged to host Olympic Rowing coach Bill Barry for a training session involving our senior boys quad.

On Thursday 9th June, a group of Year 10 pupils visited two local farms.

Following on from the news story on 8th February 2011, Sixth Form students, Tom, Charles and Mathew are pictured presenting a cheque to a representative of Fly2help charity for the value of £1,000.

On Wednesday 25th May, the children and staff at Wycliffe Preparatory School were interrupted from their normal morning lessons when the Head, Adrian Palmer, asked the children to gather near the school playing fields as a surprise visitor would be arriving by helicopter at 11am!

During the Easter holidays, a team of 8 staff and cadets travelled to the Hardangervidda mountain range in Southern Norway, where we were to carry out an arduous cross-country skiing expedition.

On Sunday 1st May, the Boat Club travelled the short journey to Evesham in order to take part in the 500m Sprint Regatta.

The Bee Club will be going on a Taster Day on Saturday 18 June with The Stroud Beekeeper Association.

What started out as an idea between two school friends on a Model United Nations trip has evolved into a massively complex web adventure.

As many of you may be aware by now something big is happening at Wycliffe this November.

40 Wycliffe students attended a ten-day trip to Spain as part of a Spanish Cultural and Immersion Programme.

Despite busily preparing for a summer of examinations, Wycliffe College students took time out to celebrate Kate & William’s tying of the marital knot.

Wycliffe Squash players made history in the National School’s Competition by winning both the boys under 15 and boys under 19 titles, a feat which no other school has ever done in the 70 year history of the competition.

Year 12 pupil, Gwilym Wyn-Jones was presented with a Royal Marines recruit beret and belt in School Assembly by Captain Moore of the Royal Marines.

Earlier this term, the pupils, parents and staff of Wycliffe contributed to a collection of old and unused sports kit as part of an RAF appeal called 'Taking Football to Africa and Beyond'.

The chance to take part in a debate in the famous Senedd in Cardiff was eagerly seized upon by Wycliffe students on a recent visit to the Welsh Assembly, on the same day that the US Ambassador rolled into town.

The chick was the only one of three to hatch on Thursday 10th March in the Biology Department.

On Saturday March 5th, a good proportion of the Boat Club competed at the Avon County Head of the River situated on the Avon near Bath.

For Wycliffe's second trip to Kingswood's MUN Conference, we were given Madagascar and Turkey to represent.

In March, some of the Sixth Form Politics students were lucky enough to obtain tickets to see Prime Minister’s Question Time in the House of Commons.

On Sunday 20th February, a small squad of nine Wycliffe pupils competed at the 3.5km City of Bristol Head Race.

Wycliffe is looking for talented young people for entry in to Year 8 in September 2011 with potential in rugby and cricket.

The Inter-House Boys’ Hockey Competition 2011 took place during the gloomy, rain-filled afternoon of Thursday 10th February.

On Monday 14th February, VOX, Wycliffe’s recently formed advanced vocal group, visited Park Junior School in Stonehouse to mark the start of an exciting new musical partnership.

Pupils and staff at Wycliffe College enjoyed a fascinating lecture about the French Revolution given by William Doyle, Emeritus Professor of History at Bristol University

Two brave members of Wycliffe Sixth Form are feeling slightly chillier after a charity waxing and shaving in aid of fly2help.

Talented young musician Alex Symcox wowed judges at the Rotary Young Cotswold Musician of the Year contest on Sunday 23rd January when he performed at Westonbirt School.

New government league tables have confirmed Wycliffe’s status among the country’s top schools today.

OFSTED rated the quality of boarding at Wycliffe as ‘Outstanding’, when inspected in November 2010.

Wycliffe Fencing has seen a few changes recently. Despite losing our top fencers last summer, we have maintained a good number of students in our three sessions each week.

This year’s Oscar Awards party was a delightful evening, complete with classroom outtakes, beautiful awards and convivial company.

In the autumn half term, I accompanied five students on the annual exchange between Wycliffe College and North Shore Country Day School.

As part of the A2 Travel and Tourism course a group of Year 13 pupils organised an excursion to the Bath Christmas Market on Sunday 28th November.

On Friday 4th December the Choir spent the afternoon at Stonehouse Community Centre singing to members of the Community Circle

Talented young ventriloquist and Year 10 pupil, Kieran Powell, stole the show at the recent Gazette Factor talent contest when he was crowned the winner along with his crew of puppets.

Wycliffe Biology students were privileged to have a talk from Damon Bridge OW who is the Manager of The Great Crane Project.

Subash Ale, Year 9 was chosen as the winner of the 2010 Wycliffe Poetry Competition with his poem ‘Home Sweet Home’.

On Saturday 16th October, Wycliffe took a small squad to compete in the annual Pairs Head, raced by 479 crews from Chiswick Bridge to Hammersmith Bridge on the River Thames.

The aim of Exercise Alpine Challenge 5 was to introduce a number of fairly inexperienced cadets to Alpine Climbing, with a view to tackling three of the highest and most interesting peaks in the Austrian Otztaler.

Year 12 pupils, Tom Shephard, Matthew Crouch, David Zan-Kreyser and Vladimir Lavrischev, undertook their Gold level practice Duke of Edinburgh expedition by canoe on Friday 24th September.

Pupils and staff experienced a culinary journey when on Wednesday 10th November Chartwell’s Executive Chef, Andrew Walker and Wycliffe’s Head Chef, Di Hoskins, transformed the usual dining experience to that of a bygone era.

Over the October half-term 29 Geography students and four staff managed to avoid volcanic ash and molten lava and spent five days exploring the geological wonders of Iceland.

Official figures released this week show that Wycliffe is now one of the top UK schools for GCSE and A level results.

On Wednesday 22nd September Year 9, accompanied by sixteen members of staff, descended upon the Miserden Estate in Gloucestershire for the annual Miserden field activities trip.

On 28th September, the Chapel Choir visited Tewkesbury Abbey to perform the last in a series of summer lunchtime concerts.

GCCC are pleased to announce a new partnership for their Academy with Wycliffe College.

Fellow Old Wycliffians, Stacey Cady and Rob & Tom Lister presented the School with two ‘Mobile Dugouts’ to be used by the Sports Department at both the Prep and Senior School.

Two enterprising Year 10 pupils, Rory Gordon and Ben Capehorn are making quite a name for themselves as the writers of the ‘Rampant Rory’ blog on the Lions Rampant website!

Ollie Capehorn, former Wycliffe Sixth Form pupil represented the United Kingdom at the 15th Overseas High School Student Japanese Speech Contest in Japan in July 2010.

Wycliffe has said goodbye to one of its longest-serving member of staff, with the retirement of Head of Maths, Phil Hale after 30 years at the College. In a distinguished career, Phil not only led a busy department but ran two boarding houses between 1999 in 2008, was a keen and loyal member of the Jazz Band and led the staff golf team.

As part of the College’s five year rolling programme of refurbishment of the Science Department, the first of the refurbished science laboratories has been completed ready for the start of term.

Wycliffe is celebrating another of its best-ever GCSE results days, topping even last year’s high achievement - and with a bigger cohort of students.

Wycliffe students are celebrating another set of excellent A level results this morning including a total of twenty of the new, much-prized A* grades between them.

Wycliffe’s elite Squash Academy will be holding its very own National Junior Squash Tournament.

Former Wycliffe pupil (Wards and Robinson 1996 - 2001), Captain Edward Brown, recently visited Buckingham Palace to be awarded the Military Cross in recognition of his bravery whilst on active service in Afghanistan.

Wycliffe’s J16 quad took the Bronze medal at the recent British Rowing Championships held at Strathclyde Country Park, near Glasgow.

Wycliffe’s senior Rugby squad will be boosted by the news that German U16 International Luca Hoffmann will spend the next 2 years at the College studying for his A levels.

Albert the royal python has set up home in the Biology Department where he has become the star attraction.

World-class squash champion, Alister Walker, returned to Wycliffe as part of a four day mentoring session.

On Thursday 24th June the Development Year visited Bristol Zoo.

As part of Wycliffe’s ecology programme, the Biology Department and Year 9 pupils have designed a wildlife garden and pond in the grounds of the Senior School campus.

The timetable was thrown out of the window at Wycliffe College last week as teachers and pupils embraced national Low Carbon Day.

On Saturday 20th June, Ollie Capehorn (Year 13) and Tanya Naumenko (Development Year) competed in the finals of the Nihongo Cup Japanese Speaking Competition at the Japanese Embassy in London.

Wycliffe College has received a national award from Cancer Research UK in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the cause.

County wide ASDA Cricket Final was held at Wycliffe College on Friday 18th June.

Enterprising Housemaster, Mr Rob Pavis along with a team of dedicated helpers, have found a novel way to celebrate the FIFA World Cup and also to raise money for charity!

The Head, Mrs Margie Burnet Ward, is pleased to welcome Clare Rimell to Wycliffe College in the role as Human Resources Manager.

Rare samples of moon rock and lunar dust landed at Wycliffe College, on 26th April for a week’s visit.

Wycliffe’s big-hearted sixth formers have astounded the professionals with their response after the Blood Transfusion Service appealed for help.

Wycliffe caught the election fever generated by the televised leadership debates and the prospects of this election being one of the most memorable in recent history.

On Saturday 1st May, Bethany Grundy and Emily Walker Smith out powered the competition to give Wycliffe Boat Club, their first win of the season.

On Wednesday 28th April, a contingent from the Wycliffe CCF welcomed The Venerable Stephen Robbins, Chaplain General Archdeacon for the British Army, for their Biennial Inspection.

On Thursday, 22nd April, Wycliffe held its third creative writing competition prize-giving to celebrate the launch of this year’s Wycliffe Creative Writing Anthology.

On April 6th, Wycliffe’s IT Department donated 61 fully equipped computers to the charity ‘IT Schools Africa’.

Wycliffe win National Schools' Squash for record 6th year running.

Wycliffe Debating team, made up of Tom Brown and Ollie Capehorn participated in the Three Counties Debating competition at Malvern College.

On Thursday 25th March, Wycliffe Boat Club took part in the Sport Relief 'Row a Mile’ dressed as characters from the film, ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’.

Year 10 French, German and Spanish students were in for a surprise on Tuesday, 24th March.

On Sunday 28th February, Alicia Wyer, Emma Boers and Rachel Lade travelled to Rugby Polo Club to play in the National Girls Schools Tournament.

Brick-making, candle-making and watching 19th century foundry workers making iron tools, were just some of the activities undertaken by Year 9 pupils on a visit to Blists Hill Industrial Village and Museum, on Wednesday 25th January.

Wycliffe’s Head, Margie Burnet Ward has congratulated pupils on another excellent set of A level results this morning. “Last year’s record achievements were always going to be difficult to top but to get within half a percentage point is fantastic and we are sure that our value-added figures will be among our best ever.”

Among the top performing students with all A* and A grades are Head of School, Greg Mason from Pentyrch, Cardiff, Cheltenham’s Tom Hartley, Francesca Waggett from Stroud, Lizzie Jenkins of Rodborough and Hong Kong’s Kevin Chan. Joe Blake was among a number who secured all A grades with one B, in his case scoring an A*, 2As and a single B, missing the top grade by just two marks.

The school’s pass rate stands at 99% once again and the majority of students achieved their first or second choice of university place in this year’s exceptionally competitive marketplace.