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Policies and Procedures
Attendance and Lateness
The School provides approximately 50 – 60 hours of classwork per subject required and it is policy
that students attend all classes.
This is important both for the student to receive the guidance and assistance necessary to
complete all work and to fulfill the conditions necessary to establish verification of the authenticity
of the student’s work (adequate teacher review and supervision of work attempted).
In some subjects there are specific attendance demands in relation to sections of the course work
and these will be made known to students by the teachers involved.
If a student misses any classes, a written explanation for the absence should be given immediately
on return to the Year Level Coordinator. This is very important as if the student later is found to
have missed a substantial amount of time without acceptable explanation, it might be very difficult
to grant that student any time extensions or special consideration.
If a student believes s/he is going to miss substantial time in the future s/he should make this
known to the TSI & Year Level Coordinator, so that the situation may be reviewed for possible
special consideration/time extension.
The Year Level Coordinator, in consultation with appropriate staff, will consider such cases on their
own merit.
Special Provision
Special provision may be granted for:
• students who experience significant hardship during their studies.
• students with physical disabilities or impairments.
• students from non-English speaking backgrounds.
• students who are deaf or hearing impaired.
• Aboriginal students whose first language is not English. Such students may be granted extra
time to complete Assessment Tasks.
• Where required work will be moderated to cater for individual students needs.
Authentication
Rules And Procedures For Students
Students must submit for assessment only work that is their own. All assistance received by the
student in producing the work must be acknowledged and be obvious to the reader.
Students must be responsible for ensuring that the teacher has no difficulty in authenticating their
work. They should understand that teachers cannot authenticate work about which they have
doubts until evidence is provided.
Rules
1. Students must ensure that all unacknowledged work submitted for coursework is genuinely
their own.
2. Students must acknowledge all resources used, including:
• text and source material,
• the name(s), and statues of any person(s) who provided assistance and the type of assistance
provided.
3. Students must not receive undue assistance from any other person in the preparation and
submission of work.
Acceptable levels of assistance include:
• the incorporation of ideas or material derived from other sources (e.g. by reading, viewing or
note taking) but which has been transformed by the student and used in a new context
• prompting and general advice from another person or source which leads to refinements and/
or self-correction.