Dear Ms Darling
I'm emailing to confirm we have received your Freedom of Information
request sent 10th December 2019 for:

"Please provide all emails mentioning Steiner Academy Bristol/Avanti
Gardens School and any of the following terms:

-Curriculum
-Pedagogy
-EYFS
-KS1
-Phonics
-Steiner ethos
-Steiner methodology
-Steiner curriculum
-Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship (SWSF)
-Secondary/upper school provision/closure"

We will begin processing this request shortly.
Following the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act we have 20 school working
days to either:

* Provide you with the information you have requested

OR

* If we are unable to provide this information. To inform you as to why
we can't provide the data referring to a relevant exemption in the FOI
Act.

Following this, you should expect a response no later then the 21st
January 2020.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Yours sincerely
-
Joseph Atkinson
Data Officer
Avanti Gardens School

Please use our new email address,  [1][email address]
Kind regards
Avanti Gardens

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School Office
0117 9659150
[2]www.steineracademybristol.org.uk
The school office is open from 8.30am to 4.30pm Monday - Friday.
If you are driving to the school, please park legally and be considerate
to our neighbours. Thank you. 

References

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From: SAB info <[email address]>
Sent: 30 March 2020 12:24
To: Avanti Gardens School <[email address]>
Subject: Fwd: Internal review of Freedom of Information request - Emails:
Steiner Academy Bristol / Avanti Gardens School
 
School Office
0117 9659150
[1]www.steineracademybristol.org.uk
The school office is open from 8.30am to 4.30pm Monday - Friday.
If you are driving to the school, please park legally and be considerate
to our neighbours. Thank you. 

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Dear Ms Darling

I'm emailing in response to your request for:

 all emails mentioning Steiner Academy Bristol/Avanti Gardens School and
any of the following terms:
-Curriculum
-Pedagogy
-EYFS
-KS1
-Phonics
-Steiner ethos
-Steiner methodology
-Steiner curriculum
-Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship (SWSF)
-Secondary/upper school provision/closure

Avanti Gardens may hold information that falls within your request,
however we consider that the cost of complying with your request would
exceed the limit provided under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (‘the
FOI Act’). We are therefore refusing your request on the following
grounds:

Section 12 – Exceeds cost limit

Under section 12 of the FOI Act, we are not obliged to comply with a
request if we estimate that the cost of determining whether we hold the
information, locating and retrieving it and extracting it from other
information would exceed the appropriate limit (currently £450 for the
Academy). This is calculated at £25 per hour for every hour spent on the
activities described and is the equivalent of 18 hours.

As we estimate it would take over the 18 hour limit provided in the FOI
Act to identify, retrieve and extract the information requested, we
consider that section 12 applies and are refusing your request.

Narrowing your request

Under the FOI Act, a public authority is not obliged to search for, or
compile some of the requested information before refusing a request that
it estimates will exceed the appropriate limit. You may wish to narrow the
scope of your request by reducing the timeframe and limiting the type of
information or focusing on the information that is most important to you.

An example of this can be focusing on particular accounts, or focusing on
particular bits of information.

Please note that any refined request we receive will be treated as a fresh
request and we cannot guarantee that any relevant exemptions under the FOI
Act will not apply to a revised request. 

We would appreciate it if you could respond to confirm you have received
this email.

If you have any questions regarding this, or if I can help with anything
else, please let me know.

Regards

Anna

Administrator

Avanti Schools Trust is a private company limited by guarantee, and an
exempt charity, registered in England and Wales under company registration
number 07506598 with registered address: Avanti Schools Trust, Wemborough
Road, Stanmore, HA7 2EQ. VAT registration number: 122 8491 20 “Avanti
House School” is an academy school within the trust, and is effectively a
trading name of the trust.