1. An Open Book - representing learning and knowledge, including that of St. Edmund Campion.

2. A Palm Branch - symbol of victory, especially the victory after martyrdom.

3. A Pineapple - symbol of Jamaica, which is found on Jamaica's Coat of Arms and royal standard, on the currency and on the Coat of Arms of the Archbishop.

4. A Campion Flower - the Campion flower is pink with a red of yellow center, and it represents Campion College; it is always drawn at a 45 degree angle to signify 'charge' or 'go forward'.

Encircling the base, a scroll of the field, with the device of the second,

FORTES IN FIDE ET OPERE (steadfast in faith and work.)

This Shield contains the school colours, red and white, red symbolizing courage, blood, and martyrdom, white symbolizing virtue, purity and victory. The white cross on red is the reverse of the St. George's Cross; St. George's College being the other Jesuit College of the Island, and Jamaica having been at one time a colony of Great Britain. The cross is common in ordinary heraldry suited to a Christian school and especially to a martyr who died by hanging. The open book is a frequent charge on academic arms, symbolic of learning and knowledge. The edging in green merely repeats the green found in all the other quarters. The palm is the palm of martyrdom and its victory. Note the palm branches in John 12:13 and especially in Apoc 7:9 "I saw a great multitude which no man could number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and with palms in their hands... And he (the elder) said to me, "These are they who have come out of the great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood if the Lamb." Here is also noticed the school colours, the combination of red (blood) and white (robes). The pine has become the symbol of Jamaica, being used as a watermark on the currency, on the royal Jamaican standard of H.R.H. Queen Elizabeth, and on the coats of arms of the country and of Bishop Samuel Carter, S.J., D.D., first native bishop and first headmaster of Campion College. The campion flower is a variety of the pink family (Caryophyllaceae or Sinenaceae of the order of Chenopodiales), especially of the genera Lychnis and Silene. The derivation of the word campion is probably form the Latin, campus meaning field.

The arms in general of themselves designate a Jamaican school that is Catholic and probably Jesuit and which goes by the title of Blessed Edmund Campion.

The Motto of the school is Fortes in Fide et Opere, Steadfast in Faith and Work. It is taken basically from the Mass of Bl. Edmund Campion. The oration (collect) reads in part: come we beseech thee to the aid of our frailty: that FIRM IN FAITH we may be able..... and the text is taken basically from 1 Peter 5:9, your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goes about seeking someone to devour. Resist him STEADFAST IN FAITH..... To avoid the alliteration of the f's and to balance off faith and its companion works (cf. Gal 5:6 and James 2:14-26) the phrase ET OPERE has been added.