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School mottos?

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Jane10 Fri 25-Sept-20 21:49:11

Anyone remember their school motto? Ours was 'Gentleness and Justice'. Not sure I lived up to that.

Jangran99 Sun 27-Sept-20 14:52:54

Motto,
in necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas
Hymn, ‘Ninian of Galloway’, in honour of St Ninian who is acknowledged as Scotland’s first saint.

homefarm Sun 27-Sept-20 14:04:17

Aim High and I've always tried to.

chrissyh Sun 27-Sept-20 13:50:26

Learning and Light.

Unigran4 Sun 27-Sept-20 12:46:13

Pactum Serva - Keep the Faith. School "song" was "Praise my Soul, the King of Heaven" and one claim to fame was that Virginia Wade (tennis player) attended the school.

Rosina Sun 27-Sept-20 12:44:24

'Love as Brethren'. If only.....

Tibbs Sun 27-Sept-20 12:38:13

Cresco. I grow

CaroleAnne Sun 27-Sept-20 12:36:17

Non Nobis Solum-Not for us alone was mine.

annodomini Sun 27-Sept-20 12:35:11

Jane10, I love your motto. I'd like to suggest that a 21st century interpretation might be 'Keep your hands tae yersel'!

Jane10 Sun 27-Sept-20 12:27:46

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

Maggiemaybe Sun 27-Sept-20 12:22:49

Members One Of Another. And the school hymn was He Who Would Valiant Be, which I do love.

lucyanne Sun 27-Sept-20 12:21:05

Notre Dame secondary 'Omnibus disce prodesse' (Learn to be of service to humanity)
Taught it meant to bring hope and life to the downtrodden and the disheartened. Quite appropriate in these times.

aprilgrace Sun 27-Sept-20 12:20:48

As far as who goes farthest. From one of Shakespeare’s plays I think.

Kalu Sun 27-Sept-20 12:20:35

Our school hymn was Non nobis Domine in English.

Spec1alk Sun 27-Sept-20 12:06:06

Luckyoldbeethoven Me too! I was at Notre Dame in Wigan .

Gwenisgreat1 Sun 27-Sept-20 12:01:51

Per Vias Rectas – By Straight Paths. We had a song too, can't quite remember it.

watermeadow Sun 27-Sept-20 11:56:27

No school motto but a school hymn, Now Thank We All Our God, sung as a slow thankless dirge.
If Joan Bakewell is a Gransnetter she will remember this.

grandtanteJE65 Sun 27-Sept-20 11:48:54

Nemo me impune lacessit said by Edinburgh schoolboys of my great uncle's day to mean Waur dare meddle with me? and to have been adopted by King James, can't remember if it was the second or fourth, as the motto of the Order of the Thistle when the king sat on a thistle by mistake!

Granartisan Sun 27-Sept-20 11:46:27

We also had a school song 'True to the end" composed by a pupil around the late 40's. It only gets sung at the occasional school reunion. It was a girl's grammar school until they were all phased out, then it became a comprehensive.

Secondwind Sun 27-Sept-20 11:44:34

Omnia experire bona contine.
All men put good things to the test, I think!

grandtanteJE65 Sun 27-Sept-20 11:43:30

Ora et labora - pray and work; said to be the motto of the monks of St. Columba of Iona and not to be confused with that of the Order of St. Benedict, which is complete nonsense, as the Order of St. Benedict does use this motto.

LyWa Sun 27-Sept-20 11:42:34

BeeB63, I thought someone on here would recognise it, and yes, I know exactly what you mean ?

Granartisan Sun 27-Sept-20 11:35:12

Verus ad finem. True to the end.

kathyd Sun 27-Sept-20 11:26:44

After darkness light.

Paperbackwriter Sun 27-Sept-20 11:24:20

I don't think we had one. (It was a girls' grammar school). Did state schools tend to? I shall ask our Facebook group.

Lancslass1 Sun 27-Sept-20 11:17:03

"Swift and Sure"
I have checked all the posts and I haven't seen that one.
Lynda Lee Potter who sadly died too young was our most famous "old girl"