We believe that the faculty at St. Andrew’s College has a responsibility to:

• teach its students to function with academic integrity;
• embed strategies in the curriculum that will enable students to operate with academic integrity;
• offer an academic integrity policy that can be enforced in a consistent and measured manner, taking into consideration the unique nature of each situation;
• ensure students’ understanding of academic integrity is enduring and prepares them for future academic success;
• create assignments that preclude the possibility of cheating; and
• ensure new boys are abreast of the expectations and skills required at the grade level they are entering.

We believe that our students:

• must demonstrate honesty in all academic endeavours and approach academic endeavours as Andreans;
• must take an active role in the learning process; and
• have a responsibility to understand all academic integrity policies outlined in the Parent & Student Handbook.

Definitions

Plagiarism consists of (but is not necessarily limited to):

• misrepresenting someone else’s work as one’s own: e.g., copying another student’s paper or an article from a journal or website; buying an essay from a term-paper mill;
• patchwriting: writing a paper by simply patching together blocks of text, perhaps with slight modification, taken from one or more sources;
• paraphrasing or summarizing information from a source without citation;
• quoting material without the proper use of quotation marks (even if otherwise cited correctly); or
• translating a work from one language to another without citation.

Cheating consists of (but is not necessarily limited to):

• using unauthorized notes or other aids in a test or exam, or copying from or being influenced by another student’s work during an evaluation or assessment;
• giving unauthorized aid to another student; allowing another student to copy or use one’s test, exam, paper, or homework;
• receiving excessive assistance with homework or take-home tests from a tutor, parent, or fellow student;
• using translating software or translations of texts studied in class without the permission of the teacher;
• submitting the same work for credit to more than one teacher, unless both teachers give their permission;
• misuse of technology, including, but not limited to, cell phones, calculators, laptops; 
• using the intellectual property of another individual without acknowledging the source;
• file sharing without the teacher’s permission; or
• the intentional manipulation of teacher/student feedback notes within any OneNote ‘shared’ file.

Process

In the case of a First Offence: 

• communication will be established with the student’s parents and advisor;
• the student will meet with the Director of Middle School;
• the student will receive a zero for the work but will be expected to redo the assignment;
• the student will lose his Good Standing Status for a period of three school months; and
• the student’s current teachers and Head of House will be notified.

In the case of a Second Offence: 

• communication will be established with the student’s parents and advisor;
• the student will meet with the Director of Middle School;
• the student will be ineligible to receive recognition at the end-of-term Academic Assembly, including Prize Day;
• the student will be required to attend a remediation session in the GLC and will be required to provide a statement of enduring learning following the session;
• the student will lose his Good Standing Status for a period of six school months;
• the student will receive a zero for the work but will be expected to redo the assignment; and
• the student’s current teachers and Head of House will be notified.

In the case of a Third Offence: 

• communication will be established with the student’s parents and advisor;
• the student and his parents will meet with the Head of School and Director of Middle School;
• the student will be ineligible to receive recognition at the end-of-term Academic Assembly, including Prize Day;
• the student will lose his Good Standing Status for a period of one school year;
• the student will receive a zero for the work but will be expected to redo the assignment; and
• the students’ current teachers and Head of House will be notified.