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.

List of school hymns and songs

Please note: This list by no means comprehensive

Australia

• The Glennie School - Now Thank We All Our God
• Melbourne High School - Honour the Work
• Sydney Boys High School - The Sydney Boys High School Song
• The University High School - Strenue ac Fideliter

Canada

• Bishop's University - "Raise a toast"
• Trinity College, University of Toronto - Met' agona stephanos
• 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

Croatia

• Serbian Orthodox Secondary School - Hymn to Saint Sava

England

• Addey and Stanhope - School Song
• Bedford School - Domus Pater
• Barnard Castle School - Jerusalem
• Charterhouse School - The Carmen and Jerusalem
• Christ's Hospital - "The Foundation Hymn" and "Votum"
• 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 Etonense
• Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School - Jerusalem
• Harrow County School for Boys - Worth not Birth
• Harrow School - Forty Years On
• King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford - Jerusalem
• The Liverpool Blue Coat School - Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
• 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
• Rugby School - Floreat Rugbeia
• Shrewsbury School - Floreat Salopia
• The Skinners' School - The Leopard Song
• Stamford School - Carmen Stamfordiense and In Father Time's Remoter Days
• Victoria College, Jersey - Carmen Caesariense
• William Ellis School - The Elysian
• William Hulme's Grammar School - The Hulme Song and Jerusalem
• Winchester College - Dulce Domum

Greece

• Anatolia College - Morning Cometh

India

The Gurukul,Jalandhar.(hb-Rahul)

• The Lawrence School, Sanawar - The School Song- Never Give In.
• Loyola School, Thiruvananthapuram - Cheer Loyola's sons
• St. Paul's School, Darjeeling - The Alma mater
• St. Ann's High School, Secunderabad - Scenes Of Our Childhood

New Zealand

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

Pakistan

• Pakistan School Song - This poem (prayer) was sung as school song in most Pakistani schools.

Scotland

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

Sri Lanka

• Kingswood College (Sri Lanka) - Hill-throned, where Nature is gracious and kind
• 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
• Wesley College- Boys of Wesley through the land
• Central College (Anuradhapura)- Namadimu baethi gee kusum puda
• Sujatha Vidyalaya, Matara - Sathathina Lakambara
• St. Michael's College National School - Sons of Blessed St. Michael

USA

• St. Albans School - Men of the Future, Stand
• Bryn Mawr School for Girls (Baltimore, MD)- Jerusalem
• 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"
• University of Georgia - Glory, Glory
• Ashworth College - Bits and Bytes
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - "Illinois Loyalty"
• The Mary Louis Academy (Jamaica Estates, Queens) - "Crusader"

Notes

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

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