School mottos?

25Avalon

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

Mine too - Herts and Essex High School.

'Serve God and be cheerful'

Aucto Splendore Resurgam
We rise again with increased splendor

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

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

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’!

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

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!

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!

Ad Lucem which I think is towards the light

"Keep Troth"

"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"

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

After darkness light.

Verus ad finem. True to the end.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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

Our school hymn was Non nobis Domine in English.

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