Class photos

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Class photo day. I was quite looking forward to this, as in my mind it would mean I mice posed photo in rows that I could put inYr6 DDs album along with the ones from her first and second Primary schools (unfortunately never had one at school 3 due to Covid).

But its the modern style in little groups apparently, creating a long panoramic thing that won't fit in an album

Honestly... which would you prefer?
YANBU- old fashioned, in rows
YABU- modern, all spread out.

(NB... DDs have attended multiple schools due to being Military kids)

Classic all the way. Hate the “modern” ones I’ve seen - thankfully DS’s school does traditional!

The new style ones are awful, much prefer the traditional ones!

i particularly hate the individual ones when the kid has to clutch a random mug of pencils or drape their arm round another kid. So cliched and horrible!

The old fashioned ones are soooo much nicer, agreed.

Ours aren’t even an actual class photo, it’s their individual photos put on one picture. It’s just laziness, and shit.

Mine never sat for them, so my preference is none, but if I had to choose I would go with the modern ones as the traditional ones are really boring.

The modern style is awful. I was always so disappointed to not have a good school photo of any of my DCs from primary.

I don't own a photo album. I haven't since the invention of digital photos. IT's one of the advantages of digital, you're not restricted to any particular shape of photo, and therefore arrangement. Why can't you put the panoramic photo in a small frame?

My school did the modern style once.
They were dreadful. We never used the company again and reverted to traditional style, which our parents voted for overwhelmingly.

I genuinely don't get this - I just took a nice picture myself - why do you need it to be taken by the school? What is a 'school photo' - it is just a photo of your own child in their school uniform?

I agree. I was gutted when DD came home with the proof of hers as I had no idea the traditional ones were no more! Plus is it the norm for schools to only have these class photos when in reception and Y6 or just our school? We had them every year when I was at school.

I wonder if they are less popular now as people take pictures constantly. When we were at school they were a novelty.

I genuinely don't get this - I just took a nice picture myself - why do you need it to be taken by the school? What is a 'school photo' - it is just a photo of your own child in their school uniform?

The OP is talking about a class photograph - a picture of their child at school with all the children in their class. We bought DD's annual class photographs as it is a nice memento of her school days, something for her to look back on in years to come.

DH and I have both come across old class photographs of our own and its nice to reminisce.

I don't know anyone who buys the whole class photos every year... we bought reception, their second school gave out the class ones for free (their classes changed drastically regularly due to be an Army school). And Yr6 being the final time they are all 'together' as a group.

I suppose it will be a nice memory for DD whatever the format!

The problem with the traditional ones is it's near on impossible to get 30 children to look at the camera at the same time so inevitably at least one parent won't be happy with it, the grouped ones don't have that problem.

why aren’t they doing the traditional ones? DD came home with one that looked photoshopped, they were all in groups of about 4, you could tell they were just thrown together, two teachers had their backs to one another etc, it looked ridiculous but I bought it!🤦🏻‍♀️

I'm looking forward to class photos again soon, because last years one of my DS was utterly hilarious. He looked like the terminator learning to smile.

My older ones used to have modern, long panoramic group ones, then they changed to modern, still small groups but in a normal sized frame so there must have been some comments. Younger child in a new school does traditional.

I prefer traditional (I mean, I'd prefer traditional if my child wasn't always the only one not looking at the camera....)

They do look weird because the perspective and proportions are lost. In my DC's only one of this type, the little groupings were all the same size, so some kids were bigger proportionally to other kids than they are IRL. Equally, a small kid for some reason was in a group with tall kids. This was shrunk so the tall kids grouping was the same as all the others, so that small kid ended up tiny.

Very bizarre indeed, and as with pps, not repeated by the school.

Just bought DDs Y3 class pic as her first year in Junior school. Nicely sat in rows - thank fuck.

The infant school was the weird landscape one. I bought a framed one for reception yerar but have never had it on display. I must have been mad. Plus DDs teacher was wearing flip flops so have nice centrally placed manky feet on display. Y1 and Y2 pics cancelled due to covid thankfully.

I much prefer the traditional style ones. I told DS all through primary school that I wouldn't buy the class photos every year, but I'd get the year 6 one as a memento of primary school.
However, by the time he got to year 6, the school changed supplier and the class photos were that horrible modern style with kids in random groups and all doing stupid poses - thumbs up, or arms folded back to back with another kid that just looked really forced and unnatural. Awful. I didn't buy it in the end. It was so much money and DS looked like an utter twat.