4/11/2024
Cooper O’Neil
[FYI request #28663 email]
Tēnā koe Cooper
OIA: 1337393 – Communications between the Ministry and Auckland Grammar School
regarding granting exemptions from COVID-19 regulations to senior students August 2020
Thank you for your email of 4 October 2024 to the Ministry of Education (the Ministry) requesting
the following information:
I am writing to request all communications between your office and Auckland Grammar
School regarding the request to grant exemptions from COVID-19 regulations for senior
students during August 2020, under the Official Information Act 1982.
Please include any emails, memos, letters, or notes related to this matter.
Your request has been considered under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act).
I have identified one email trail (
document one in Appendix A) and one document (
document
two in Appendix A) in scope of your request, which I am releasing to you in part with some
information withheld under section 9(2)(a) of the Act, to protect the privacy of natural persons.
As required under section 9(1) of the Act, I have considered the public interest in releasing the
information withheld. I do not consider the public interest considerations favouring the release of
this information are sufficient to outweigh the need to withhold it at this time.
I have further identified information that I am releasing to you as two excerpts, as envisaged under
sections 16(1)(e) of the Act, which provides that, where requested information is comprised in a
document, that information may be made available by giving an excerpt or summary of the
contents. I am providing these as follows:
•
Excerpt 1 is a line is from a tracking sheet
Senior Secondary Student Attendance
Permission Request Decisions Log used during the response to COVID-19.
•
Excerpt 2 is a line that refers to Auckland Grammar School and is
captured in
Appendix 1
Granted applications and attendance for Yr 12/13 return to school in a
Ministry of Education
COVID Situation Report - 24 August 2020 that listed the approved applications for Year
12/13 students.
I am releasing all this information to you as
Appendix A.
8 Gilmer Terrace, Levels Ground floor, 1, 2, and 6-14, Wellington
PO Box 1666, Wellington 6140 Phone: +64 4 463 8000
Please note, we may publish this response on our website after five working days. Your name and
contact details wil be removed.
Thank you again for your email. You have the right to ask an Ombudsman to review my decision
on your request, in accordance with section 28 of the Act. You can do this by writing to
[email address] or to Office of the Ombudsman, PO Box 10152, Wellington 6143.
Nāku noa, nā
Lorraine Monahan
Manager Government Executive and Ministerial Services
Te Pou Rangatōpū | Corporate
OIA: 1337393
