It’s amazing what you find out when you are trawling about the internet. Yesterday I found the words for the school song, and today I found the meaning of the school motto. It’s been 34 years since I started at Rosa Bassett School, and it’s taken this long for me to find out what Honesta Obtinete actually means……………
The school's original motto was "Steadiness, Sincerity and Service", but this was changed to Honesta Obtinete (literally "Possess Virtues!") while the school was still at Stockwell. The Latin was normally translated as "Hold Fast [To] That Which Is Good", taken from 1 Thessalonians 5:21, Authorised Version.
Something else I found on one of the Rosa Bassett Websites………….
In 1913 - that school moved to its new countrified site near Tooting becoming "County Secondary School Streatham". Every pupil & staff member wore a red carnation and so, since that time, it has been customary to wear red carnations for special events
and anniversaries.
Well I didn’t know that! For the next reunion we will all have to wear red carnations.
Kx
The school's original motto was "Steadiness, Sincerity and Service", but this was changed to Honesta Obtinete (literally "Possess Virtues!") while the school was still at Stockwell. The Latin was normally translated as "Hold Fast [To] That Which Is Good", taken from 1 Thessalonians 5:21, Authorised Version.
Something else I found on one of the Rosa Bassett Websites………….
In 1913 - that school moved to its new countrified site near Tooting becoming "County Secondary School Streatham". Every pupil & staff member wore a red carnation and so, since that time, it has been customary to wear red carnations for special events
and anniversaries.
Well I didn’t know that! For the next reunion we will all have to wear red carnations.
Kx
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