As I trembled on the brink of my momentous Last Day In Employment this evening, I threw out a distress flare on Facebook and Twitter. As you do. My old school friend, Kathy, came to the rescue with some lines from our school song!
So: share with me YOUR inspiring school song! Polite versions only, please. But if you’re our age or older, I bet you had one …
What if the lessons of life grow harder?
What if they bring no gain?
Still we can work for the joy of working,
Play up and play the game!
…
Courage and honour as England’s women
Think of the school on the hill!
School on the hill top, keep our devotion
True among all life’s fears.
Let our tradition of Courage and Honour
Grow, Grrrow with the passing years!
(copyright TGSG, I suppose. No intention to steal it. Just share a few lines, eh?)
Adventures in reading, running and working from home 
Oct 12, 2016 @ 20:01:58
So shall the school send forth her daughters guarding their watchword still …courage and honour as England’s women think of the school on the hill. Thanks Liz – I was searching for the school song and amazingly yours is the only record of that fine anthem! How are you?? I’m going to read some of your other stuff now! Best wishes Katya from 1B x
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Oct 13, 2016 @ 08:07:18
Hello, Katya, how lovely to hear from you after all these years! I think there was something about the song on FriendsReunited at one point, though of course that’s gone now. I’ll drop you a line!
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Jul 27, 2017 @ 21:58:39
I went to Tonbridge too – I just wish I could remember the tune!
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Jul 28, 2017 @ 09:47:15
Unfortunately I’m not going to post a video of me singing it! I can remember the tune, too! When were you there, I was 1982-89.
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Jun 25, 2018 @ 22:14:45
There I was entering the words of ‘our’ school song into the internet thinking I would never find anything and your blog came up!!! (Old Girl 1974-81).
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Jun 26, 2018 @ 07:15:35
Oh, that’s funny! I just missed you, as was there 82-89!
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