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Nursery photos....

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Blazingspeed · 23/05/2018 16:44

So today was the day the kids who are leaving for school in September get their nursery photos done.

My daughter goes in 3 days a week but only for the afternoon on a Wednesday. I dropped her off today as usual.
When I came to collect her I asked the teacher if they’d had the photos done, she just said ‘oh they were done this morning’

So now I have no photos of her time in nursery... aibu to have expected them to tell me it was happening during the morning? There’s not many kids leaving for school, a lot of them are younger so it wouldn’t have taken long to let the few parents know the actual time surely?
Or aibu? I’m just really upset that I missed it and I’m wondering whether to say something about it to them or not.

It was printed in the newsletter that photos were happening today but no time.

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Blazingspeed · 23/05/2018 16:55

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Freetodowhatiwant · 23/05/2018 17:00

Is it your choice for her to just do the afternoon that day or theirs? My eldest just did two mornings a week at nursery and TBH if we missed out on something in the afternoon I would say that was just one of those things. I wouldn’t think it was foremost on their minds to let people know what time photos are. They might not have even known exactly what time themselves. We recently missed individual photos for reception. Nothing we could do about it really. Sorry you’ve missed out and feel you’ve missed something nice but I don’t think it would be reasonable for them to have contacted you personally. Thoughtful maybe but not necessarily something they SHOULD have done.

chinesechicken · 23/05/2018 17:01

I see what you mean I think I would be upset too. Why don't you ask who did the photos? My friend is a photographer and uses a set background for the nurseries so you could just ask them to do an individual shoot for one or 2 photos and they could use the same background. Not 100 percent the same but would make up for it in my mind

mintich · 23/05/2018 17:05

That's really bad!! My nursery had scheduled times for each child's pictures which we booked so if your child was off that day or in part of the day, you could bring them in for them.
I'd be really upset!!

BrutusMcDogface · 23/05/2018 17:08

I'd just shrug it off to be honest. Take a nice picture of her standing by the nursery door, or something. I think you should have checked in advance, what time they would be done.

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Blazingspeed · 23/05/2018 17:16

I know.... I’m just really upset about it (I don’t know why!)

Would any of you mention it to them?

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4GreenApples · 23/05/2018 17:25

It’s a bit rubbish really.

We’ve used a private nursery and a school nursery for our DC, and both nurseries have put signs up / sent out e-mails informing parents of both the date and the time of any formal photos. Both have said on the official notices that if your children doesnt normally attend during the nursery sessions that the photo’s happening in, then the parent can arrange to come in with the child to have the photo done.

I’d be upset if I missed out on having DC’s photo because nursery hadn’t passed on all the info. If they’re putting the photo date in their newsletter, it can’t be that much harder to put a rough time, even just am or pm.

ILikeMyChickenFried · 23/05/2018 17:30

Our preschool invites all children to special events regardless of whether or not it would be their usual time slot.

It's poor form of them to not tell you the pictures would only happen in the morning but I'm not sure I'd really care about it either

Frazzled2207 · 23/05/2018 17:49

Ours puts a sign up that says the photographer is coming at (time,date), if your child isn't normally in at this time please bring them in if you'd like a photo taken.

That sounds completely fair to me.

It's nice if the photo turns out to be nice but I don't see it as a Nursery photo iyswim. It's just a (hopefully) nice photo of my ds. If it's nice I'll buy it if it doesn't I won't.

FullOfJellyBeans · 23/05/2018 17:51

My DC's nursery always told us those things and gave us the option to come in if it wasn't their normal day. That said I wouldn't worry too much, I don't think there's anything too special about photos that happen to have been taken at nursery.

Happygolucky009 · 23/05/2018 17:56

We had a similar issue. We contacted the photographer went to their studio and had some photos taken, they then inserted image of child in. When questioned the photographer advised they normally take small groups and then mix the images to make a group image. The outcome is you can't tell that he wasn't part of the original photo day !

HeadsDownThumbsUpEveryone · 23/05/2018 17:56

So now I have no photos of her time in nursery

If your Nursery is anything like all the Nurseries where I live when she leaves she will have a scrapbook or online Journal of evidence to show how and what she has achieved during her time there. This should include lots of pictures taken of her during her Nursery sessions. It might be worth asking about this as they would be much more natural, and a nicer reminder of her time there than a picture of her sitting in front of a backdrop.

vandrew4 · 23/05/2018 17:58

Do you have a camera? if so, take a photo of her. Voila, you now have a photo of her at nursery age.

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