School mottos?

St Margaret’s Paisley! Mine too

Dieu et Mon Droit at King Edward VI Camp Hill - the royal motto I think.

Another Notre Dame girl here. The motto was the same but I don’t know if the school song was common to all Notre Dame schools, I imagine it was;

‘Notre Dame ‘neath your banner we proudly stand
Clad in armour of radiant white,
Six regiments brave and fearless
In a glorious cause to fight’ etc.,

50 years on and it’s still in my head! I hated the place.
I believe Julie Billiart is now promoted to sainthood paddyann.

My senior school didn't have a motto but the Buckinghamshire Education Committee's motto (on all our exercise books) was "Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum" - never a backward step. My ex, who was good at Latin, said a more literal translation would be "Blindly barging on"!!
My school was only a year old when I started there, and the school song then was "I Love All Beauteous Things." After several years it was quietly dropped, probably because it was too difficult. It required a full choir plus descant.

I went to a comprehensive school. I don't think we had a motto.

Life is Service

allium

Mine was pretty toe curling - I am, I can, I ought, I will, therefore I'm not, I can't, I shan't, I wont, ???

Sounds like you went to a PNEU school allium . I did too. When the first one closed down I went to another one - mostly because the uniform was the same with the same badge and motto too of course.

Ours was simply, "Ad Lucem" and our school song was, "The City of the Light" of which I do remember all the words, 43 years after leaving! How sad is that?

I've just had a PM from someone, who recognised the motto and went to the same school as me

Onwards and Upwards. It was a girls’ school. ?

Industria, was my school's motto - regrettably, I did not really live up to this while I was there. I was most fortunate to get in to the school and, with the hardwork of my Housemaster and the teachers, I managed to make a life for my family and I.

Gaudeamus Igitur,Let us rejoice

Esse quam videre.
To be rather than to seem.
Didn’t stop the hypocrites though!

No Latin for yours downtoearth. It's Polonius in Hamlet, and according to Ben Johnson Shakespeare had "small Latin and less Greek". Autocorrect wanted Polonium.

Ours was " A Spe In Spem"---from hope to hope.

My Welsh grammar school motto was, "Mi ddylwn, mi allaf, my fynnaf."
Translated that means "I should, I can, I will."

lancslass I'm guessing you're not too far from me. Linda Lee Potter was the giveaway!

My school motto at Wimbledon High School was
Ex humilibus excelsia - From humble beginnings to great things.

Dieu et mon droit (and it took me ages to Google it

However, my sister and I can give a truly awe-inspiring screeching rendition of the School Anthem, with me doing the descant

Imprinted on my heart 'fortiter et recite'. Think it meant faithful and strong.

Disgruntled: it wasn’t a Quaker school, though I suppose there may have been some association. It was Church of England if anything.

Grandma70 ours was Non Sibi Sed Omnibus - sounds very similar... Quaker, by any chance?

Jane10

'Wha daur meddle wi' me'
Modern translation 'Dinnae start'!

Jane10, since I saw this following my post, I’ve been singing it (in my head, luckily for all bystanders) as the first line of He Who Would Valiant Be. It goes well, don’t you think?

“Nid da lle gellir gwell” - Nothing is good if better is possible.

Ours was "By Learning and Courtesy'. I quite liked it....