Inspirational education purposefully designed for a rapidly changing future

Wycliffe College has a long-established reputation for academic rigour, breadth of opportunity and strong pastoral care. We balance respect for tradition with a forward-looking education, preparing pupils not only for academic success but for leadership, service and responsibility beyond school.

Above all, Wycliffe is founded on kindness, humility and excellence without exclusion. We want our pupils to be curious, empathetic, thoughtful, adventurous and ambitious. Our size allows us to know pupils exceptionally well, while our resources and staff enable an education that is both demanding and supportive.

Christian San José
Headmaster

For over 140 years, Wycliffe College has been expertly helping children write their own stories of challenges faced and opportunities seized.

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.

We do hope you will come and see for yourselves by paying us a visit.

Christan San José Headmaster

Our Purpose, Vision and Aims for our pupils embody these beliefs

Purpose

Inspire and educate every individual in mind, body and soul.

Vision

Wycliffe will promote a pioneering spirit and encourage individuals to flourish and embrace their futures as global citizens.

Aims for Pupils

  • Achieve their full academic, spiritual, physical and creative potential.
  • Behave with ‘unassuming confidence’*, showing generosity of spirit, respect for others and appreciation of diversity.
  • Cultivate social and environmental awareness and an understanding of their role as global citizens.
  • Develop skills, self-knowledge and resilience to positively face all future challenges.
  • Exhibit creativity, innovation and independence in their approach to learning and to life.
  • Feel happy and secure.*This was a comment made by the Inspection team during a recent ISI visit when seeking to describe the Wycliffe pupils they had met.

Pupils are encouraged to take responsibility for their learning and appreciate the level of challenge put before them as a means to boost their self-confidence.

ISI Inspection team
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Friday 6th March, Years 7 - 13
Friday 20th March, Years 7 - 13

Drop in anytime from 9:00am to 12noon and see our Prep School (Years 3-8) and Senior School (Years 9-13) in action on a normal school day.