Three student vestries help plan and lead school chapel services. In August or September, they attend a two-day planning retreat. We worship together, and we do some games, and we have several planning sessions, and we make banners for the opening chapels. In services, students serve as readers, acolytes and sometimes speakers. For them to have that experience of leading is wonderful in that kind of setting.
Students play leadership roles in other ways.
About nine years ago, students began a successful drive to reinstitute an honor code. More recently, the school community re-evaluated and revamped that code. Students and others attending an honor convocation also signed the pledge. St. Andrew's students serve on an honor board, which hears cases of alleged code infringements and recommends action to the school's head. We try not to make our punishments too punitive because we want everything to be a learning experience.