Bournemouth School

The school crest is taken from the arms of Bournemouth which  were granted on 24 March 1891. Above the shield are four English roses and a pine tree. The motto, Pulchritudo et Salubritas, is Latin for "beauty and health". The colours are taken from the royal arms of King Edward the Confessor, in whose royal estate the area now known as Bournemouth sat. The four salmon represent those found in the River Stour, which marks the boundary between Christchurch and Bournemouth. Each of the lions holds a rose between its paws. The six birds, also taken from Edward the Confessor's arms, are martlets, heraldic birds with no legs (folk belief was that swallows did not need legs because they never stopped flying.)