Feel like teacher is forgetting my DD

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She turned 5 in the summer holidays and in Y1. She has hardly been on any other the app photos but all the other children have been. She is quite quiet in the school I think so I feel like she's being forgotten, in place for photos and updates on the more confident children.

Are you sure you haven't got your settings to "no photos of my child" with the school?

Photos uploaded to an app are not an indication of how much attention your child is getting. Part of my job is to take photos for parents to see their children on the app so this is something I know for a fact.

some children lend themselves perfectly to action shots showing that they are engaged in their learning and some children don’t. Sometimes it’s just one of those unexplainable things, that you never have the camera in the right place at the right time when something good happens, but it doesn’t mean those things aren’t happening.

Sometimes the opposite happens and we get amazing pictures that make it look like the child is doing something brilliant when we know they were messing around and needed extensive encouragement to do anything.

And sometimes we just fake it, because the school makes us get photos for the bloody app so we have no choice.

The teacher has lots of kids and some just love to be infront of the lens. I wouldn't make any deductions from that.

Give it time, DS 2 ( now 12 and it doesn't happen in Senior School) and I had a running joke as to whether he'd been locked in the cupboard or let out of the cupboard, depending he on if he was in any photos or not. Different teachers and TAs have different ideas about which photos to upload.

I hate that as a teacher I'm not expected to take a load of photos. They are nearly all faked because our iPad is so old you get really blurry photos if you take action shots, so children are told to do something again but stay still. I'm in juniors where we just need photos for newsletters, displays etc; it must be so much worse in infants. I'd really not look too deeply into it OP and consider other evidence about how well your daughter is or isn't getting on.

I'm going to disagree with the others. I'd certainly keep an eye on it and monitor it. I noticed my child was rarely in photos so I questioned it. Only then did they admit there were some issues despite asking on several occasions and giving my concerns.

I'm a teacher and yes it's hard to get photos of everyone every single time but he was missed every time other than individual photos.

@SometimesCalmPerson this is so great to read! My DD is never in pics even though she tries hard every day and is really engaged.

OP please don't worry, I think it's easy to spiral about what's going on at school but your child will be the best and only really reliable indicator of how she is being treated. If she's happy going in and making progress that's all you need.

What kind of issues?

My child is Autistic and ADHD so was having meltdowns, refusing to go to the designated toilet because coming out set the hand dryer off...then accidents occurred.

I did end up removing my child from the school though to many failings

Most schools don't even use those apps after early years. Don't read too much into it.

Oh my goodness, is this a thing now? Photos of your child while they are just meant to be going about their normal learning activities. How horrible. Just another task for teachers, more white noise for children and, in this case at least, a source of worry that is probably unfounded.

Just a possibility, but it could be that a child or children on your child's table group don't have photo permission so it's easier for the teacher to just take photos of other groups rather than asking a child to stand out of the photo. I get it is annoying though, when my child's school post photos on their app I am always disappointed if she's not in any of them.

Photos are a bit of a tricky thing. A few years ago I had a message on the “emergency contact only” phone while on a school residential to complain that the photos I took of “Alice” never made her look nice. Could I do something about it? Alice had shoes which had fallen apart, thin leggings and nice white jumpers- for a week of outdoor education when it snowed. I was running on 2 hrs sleep a night and trying to stop Alice from dying of hypothermia.
I now work in a setting where I take photos daily as part of a learning log. I’m checking that no-one has hands in pants, no-one is eating the resources and that the right kids aren’t in any group shots due to safeguarding concerns.
Therefore I nay not get every child in the photos as often as I’d like.
And yes, last year a parent complained that I hadn’t put their child in any of the school social media photos. They’d ticked the box for “no external photos”…