How does your DC’s primary school share pictures with home?

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Our school uses Twitter, which I’m not keen on. Our DC can’t be on it for security reasons (adopted) and DD was recently asked to stand aside in a class so a video could be taken.

There are other parents who just aren’t keen on having their kids photos on publicly accessible social media, which I completely understand.

I’d like to suggest alternatives to the school and would love some suggestions. Thanks!

*kids’ photos (Being my own grammar police)

At our school we use class Dojo and occasionally the school website.

Seesaw

An app called tapestry

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channel.

I've worked in lots of schools seesaw, dojo and tapestry are definitely the most common. None of them would use twitter as the sole way of sharing what the class had been doing.

Ours have started sharing via Google photos - each family has their own album with the teacher and she uploads a couple each week. We can add family members but only ones we've told Miss about so that she knows they're being shared properly. I quite like it as a system

They're on Facebook and Instagram but I know they only share pics of those children they've been given permission to.

But the majority of the class photos including individual ones come via Class Dojo

They don't share photos. They might have 3 or 4 stuck into their termly topic books which they bring home, but I didn't even realise sharing photos with parents was a thing. Seems like an extra job for someone that they could be using spending time with the children.

Tapestry in early years, but Twitter in KS1 and KS2. I feel for the poor teachers working out who they can photograph and who they can't.

Our school, which is surprisingly lax in a lot of things, don't publish pictures of the kids if they're identifiable. There's a parent-teacher information app which every parent has an individual log in to and they upload things like school marks and stuff for all parents to see class info, trips, timetable, photos etc.

Watching thread with interest.

Mostly Seesaw. On FB /twitter some kids will have their faces blanked out.

I know photos are nice, but beyond EYFS is this really necessary? It's yet another adnin job that doesn't really benefit the children.

Twitter for our school mainly but you have to give permission.

Our school uses SM but pages are locked and you have to ask permission to join.

We also use Teams and get EOY reports with photos

Dojo - daily - both kids are in Ks2.
It's lovely and means that I have something to ask them about.
Dojo is the main form of communication to parents and is well used as a result

Thanks everyone, lots of great suggestions.

Out of interest, if your school only uses Twitter, do you mind? Are you generally quite relaxed about kids on SM?

In primary school the only pictures shared were on newsletters going to registered addresses. Some pupils were on the school’s website but these were given by explicit permission from the parents.

Secondary, we had to fill out tons of forms about what we allow and in which form. DD has been on Facebook but not with her face showing, other pupils are recognisable and some are never on photos. Again, newsletter to parents are different to open accessible SM.

At both my DC's school and the school I teach at we use ClassDojo and the school website for class pages. There are also Twitter accounts for each class group and teacher.

To add, I don't really like the DC on social media but the class pages are protected, and all follow requests are vetted by the teacher. I wouldn't allow permission for them to be on an open page.

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The school I work at uses Twitter and I hate it. We teachers send a weekly tweet to admin who upload it. We have to make sure only children with permission are in shot which causes problems in the classroom.

My DC school use Facebook which is slightly better as there is some control over who can view.

I rarely post pics of my DC and have asked relatives to keep it to a minimum too.