School mottos?

"Keep Troth"

Ad Lucem which I think is towards the light

LyWa, you and I obviously went to the same school. Try walking round Camden Town in the 1960s (not the middle-class enclave it is now!) with ONWARD AND UPWARD in large and very visible capitals on the pocket of your school blazer, printed round the sailing ship in the centre!

Sincerity and Service, it was written on the sundial in the quadrangle at the front of the school, although some wag had highlighted the Sin and vice bit in white paint!

Nulla res sine labore -
there is no success without hard work. (A smidgeon of good luck also helps.)

Chookmama

Vitai lampada ferimus - we carry the torch of life. Though my autocorrect wanted to say “vital lambada“ which sounds much more fun!

That’s reminded me of ‘There’s a breathless hush in the close tonight’!

Ubi semen ibi messis. Where the seed, the harvest.

Vitai lampada ferimus - we carry the torch of life. Though my autocorrect wanted to say “vital lambada“ which sounds much more fun!

Aucto Splendore Resurgam
We rise again with increased splendor

'Serve God and be cheerful'

25Avalon

Sic itur ad Astra. Thus the way to the stars.

Mine too - Herts and Essex High School.

Nemo me impune lacessite
Hamilton Academy
It translates to “no one may harm me with impunity” which we loved as to us it meant “do anything to harm me and I will get you back”.

The Journey of High Honour Lies not in Smooth Ways

My girls grammar school motto was ‘Onwards and upwards‘, I have found myself saying it at different times in my life.

- and the school song was “Who would true valour see“

Cruci dum spiro fido - While I live I trust in the cross. Great predictive text gave me crucial dump spirometry fido, on first go!

Ad Rem Mox Nox - literally “To thing; night comes! But translated - Work hard for night cometh

Unto thine own self be true- Polonius in Hamlet

My school motto was "Veritas ", truth. The school song started with the line, "Founded on truth our school endures". I can still remember the tune.

Non Nobis Solum (Not unto us alone). Why can I still remember that 50 odd years after leaving? God, I hated school. Best years of your life? Pah!

Spes audacem adjuvat - hope favours the bold. Obviously a sick joke as any girl who was "bold" was well and truly squashed back into place. Ghastly place.

Knowledge Strengthened by Love

Sufficit Deus- God is Enough.

In loco parentis

The school had been founded in Manchester in 1855 to feed, clothe and educate the orphaned children of warehousemen and clerks.

Sola Nobilitat Virtus - virtue alone ennobles. Came to me right away although I left in 1970 - 50 years ago! ?