Our Heritage

Ever wondered "where does the school crest come from and what does it represent?" We need to roll back the clock to 1958... In that year, parents and pupils had been invited to submit designs for a crest, and the staff and pupils, by an overwhelming majority, voted to adopt the one submitted by Gary Holford of Form 6U.

From the 1958 school magazine, the crest was described as follows: 

This design, which was inspired by a United Nations stamp issued in 1955, depicts a flying symbol moving upwards through the stars. The setting of stars is appropriately that of the Southern Cross. The flying object is dove winged for peace. The official description of the crest is "a winged vessel in bend sinistre traversing the constellation of the Southern Cross."

The shield is red and the moving symbol and stars are silver.

Encircling the base of the shield is a silver scroll containing in green lettering the College motto which was selected by the Principal: Ad Altiora meaning literally "towards higher things."

Gary Holford added his own comments:

"The design of the crest, which peculiarly appropriate to the age in which we live, following man's determined efforts duing the past year to reach beyond the planets, is at the same time symbolic of the urgent need to reach ever greater heights of achievement in all spheres of human endeavor and particularly in moral issues."

In 1961, the school crest was cast in bronze (the pattern was made by Mr Shearman and this was mounted above the Hall stage, where it remains today).