School song

A school song, alma mater^[1], school hymn or school anthem is the patronal song of a school. In England, this tradition is particularly strong in public schools and grammar schools.

Contents 1 List of school hymns and songs 1.1 Australia 1.2 Canada 1.3 England 1.4 India 1.5 New Zealand 1.6 Scotland 1.7 Sri Lanka 1.8 USA 2 Notes

List of school hymns and songs

Please note: This list by no means comprehensive

Australia

• Melbourne High School - Honour the Work
• The University High School - Strenue ac Fideliter

Canada

• McGill University - "Hail, Alma Mater" (formal) and "James McGill"
• Selwyn House School - O God of All Being
• Upper Canada College - Praise My Soul, the King of Heaven

England

• Addey and Stanhope - School Song
• Bedford School - Domus Pater
• Douai School - Ad Multos Annos
• Dover Grammar School for Boys - Thou Whose Almighty Word
• Downside School - Patriae domus decorem
• Dulwich College - Pueri Alleynienses
• Durham School - Floreat Dunelmia
• Eton College - Carmen Etoniense
• Loughborough Grammar School - Our Father by Whose Servant (G.W. Briggs)
• The London Oratory School - Quam Bonum est in hac Fraternitate
• Normanhurst School - The Child is the Father of the Man
• Oundle School - Carmen Undeliense
• Stamford School - Carmen Stamfordiense and In Father Time's Remoter Days
• William Hulme's Grammar School - The Hulme Song and Jerusalem

India

The Gurukul,Jalandhar.(hb-Rahul)

• Loyola School, Thiruvananthapuram - Cheer Loyola's sons
• St. Paul's School, Darjeeling - The Alma mater
• St. Anns High School, Secunderabad - Scenes Of Our Childhood

New Zealand

• Auckland Grammar School - Per Angusta Ad Augusta
• Dilworth School - St Patrick's Breastplate
• Palmerston North Boys' High School - On! Palmerston North Boys High and Nihil Boni Sine Labore

Scotland

• Royal High School - Vivas Schola Regia
• High School of Dundee - Floreat Schola Taodunensis

Sri Lanka

• Royal College Colombo - School of Our Fathers
• Girls' High School - Forty Years On
• Trinity College Kandy- Where River Lake and Mountain Meet
• D.S. Senanayake College, Colombo- Sip Satha Sis Wetha
• Ananda College- Dina dina kithu gosa bowee

USA

• St. Albans School - Men of the Future, Stand
• TMI — The Episcopal School of Texas - For the Splendor of Creation
• University of North Dakota - UND Alma Mater
• Dillard University - Fair Dillard
• Pace University - Pace, O, Pace
• University of Florida - "We Are the Boys from Old Florida"
• University of Texas at Austin - "The Eyes of Texas"

Notes

1. ^ Mainly used in the USA, from so many of these songs having alma mater as their incipit.