School mottos?

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.

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

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

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?

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.

Life is Service

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

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.

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.

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

St Margaret’s Paisley! Mine too

We translated it as : Loyal I will be during my life.

Borrheid, Is that song, playing in your head? ?

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Sapere Audi [I think] Dare to be wise!

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, ???

Allium that sounds like a PNEU motto. We added ‘The standard’s high so’s the bill so’s the bill.’

Summa peto Seek the highest

Per Ardua ad Alta ‘Through Efforts to Heights’ is the motto of Birmingham University, the coat of arms is a mermaid.
A nearby girls’ school has Trouthe Schal Delyvere (Truth Shall Deliver) from a poem, Truth by Geoffrey Chaucer

Although Trouthe Schal Delyvere is over the door the actual school motto is Dieu et mon Droit, ‘God and my Right’.

My college had Cogito Ergo Sum, ‘I think, therefore I am’.

Ours was Veritas

Mine was “Per aspera ad astra” (Through adversity or hardships to the stars).

My first school was a PNEU one. That's why I recognised the 'I am etc'. I wondered why it seemed familiar. I only attended that school till I was about 6 or 7. It was lovely now I think about it.

Our Lady of Sion Convent Grammar School - per ardua ad astra which they translated as we aspire to reach the stars.

The school song (written by one of the girls, presumably in historical times) was dire.

What school is like our Sion home
The best school of all
We love it where so ere we roam
Till the last bell call
For working days and holidays
And sad and melancoly days
They are great days and jolly days
In the best school of all

Unfortunately it didn't improve over the subsequent three verses.

Certanti dabitur - who strives shall gain.

Ours was ‘Vouloir c’est pouvoir’ where there is a will there is a way!