Online images

Online images

Using images safely and responsibly

As parents and carers, we all enjoy treasuring images of our family and friends, particularly during seasonal events within the school community.

Our school understands that social media has become a part of our everyday loves and during the past few years, it has become very popular to share images of both family and friends using platforms such as Facebook and YouTube.

However, can you please be mindful that in schools and educational settings, we all have a responsibility to protect and safeguard children and staff, including those who do not want to have their image shared online.

In response to this, we have put together our guidelines for safeguarding our community.  We ask that you please read and follow these simple guidelines.

We are happy for parents and carers to take photographs and video of a school production for personal use. We request that these images are not distributed or put online.  This is protect all members of our school community.

The reason that we have taken this view is because:

• not only does an image or video stay online forever, but content can also be copied and shared to a wider audience.
• there may be some children who are at risk and must not have their image put online. Please bear in mind that not all members of the school community will know who the children at risk are.
• there may be some people who not want their images online for personal or religious reasons.
• in some cases, children and staff may have a complex family background which means that image sharing can result in unforeseen consequences.

Our advice is to please think before you post images online.  Please ensure that anyone other than your own child cannot be visually identified.