The Falcon species is known for having pretty good eyesight.  We like to think we emulate this in our outlook and approach to the future.

To create a balanced multiracial society for a broad cross-section of National and International students. The College endeavours to instil strong moral, ethical, Christian values via a broad range of activities – academic, sporting and cultural - with a bias towards the outdoors.

The College runs on a hierarchical system – which we are sure leads to well rounded young men, who have respect for the system while maintaining originality and individualism. Loyalty to the College and to each other continues to be a strong bond wherever these young men end up.

About the Motto...

The best explanation is an extract from Dougal Turner’s* Prize-Giving speech, 28 November 1987.

"I will now confess that I was responsible for the motto – or rather myself and a gentleman called Publius Vergilius Maro. The earlier motto was “arduus ad solem” – “striving towards the sun” – to which some objected because, firstly, it was already the motto of the Eagle School; and, secondly, because of some technical, linguistic difficulty which offended the classicists. Careful not to antagonise the experts, I turned to the Oxford Book of Quotations as a repository of lofty sentiments, and there in the Latin section I found the line of Vergil:
 
Macte nova virtue, puer; sic itur ad astra
 
.....which was obligingly translated:
 
Look to your new-found courage, young man, for that is the way to the stars.

* Dougal Turner was Headmaster of Falcon from 1962 to 1984