Do teachers have confidentiality rules?

[Athrodiaeth]

Is a teacher under any obligation to keep a student's classroom activities - be it good behaviour, bad behaviour, being significantly ahead or behind, things they do or say, behavioural sanctions or habits - private and/or within the school grounds, or can she tell her siblings, friends and/or mother.

People who know my mother and who gossip frequently with her. For example.

Is it normal or expected practise for a teacher to be taking pictures of a student - reception age - in order to show her family "what X's little boy" looks like (because her family knew X as a child and talking about X's boy is small-talk, I guess.)

Or would this be breaches of any current rules on student privacy?

Of course it is not ok! Extremely unprofessional.

Of course it is not ok! Extremely unprofessional.

Very poor. I talk to DH about kids I teach, but I would be very wary about talking to others, and particularly about using names. I might tell funny stories (for example, I will be telling my friend later about how amused I was this afternoon at Yr 10 boys dancing in their seats on our panto trip) but that's not the same. If you have concerns, OP, perhaps you should speak to the school.

You are not allowed to discuss anything in relation to a child. Very strict policy!

Taking pictures is absolutely not allowed. Gossiping about individual children is not allowed. Go to the Head of the school, especially the taking photographs issue. I would be furious if I was a parent at this school. There would be nothing wrong in saying that Xs little boy is in her class, but nothing more than that.

Inappropriate to take picture without consent to show to acquaintance
The employer will take dim view of it,as I imagine will parents
I am genuinely surprised a qualified teacher needs to ask this

Indeed. I'll talk about the students with my colleagues in private situations. I sometimes tell DH about the funny things or the things that make me proud of their achievements, but as far as he knows they're all called 'one of my students'!
But seriously, I 'd complain about that.

"I am genuinely surprised a qualified teacher needs to ask this"

I'm not a teacher, I'm the parent :)

Thinking a chat on Monday is needed.

I can't believe she'd be so stupid!

I know you're not the teacher,just my turn of phrase,surprised at this
Gosh you're taking it well,I'd be drafting written complaint to HT.don't approach teacher
You'll need to be able to substantiate this when asked

The first - verbal gossip - hasn't happened yet, I'm just worried it might and hoped there were rules and laws that would prevent it without me having to ask.

The photo happened today. Baffling. So gotta confirm exactly what happened and go from there.

Ok in fairness to teacher,she not been verbally indiscreet
Photo,well that's another matter You need clear irrefutable facts,timeline.
Again I'd really stress don't bring this up individually to teacher

We have a very strict code of conduct and all information is confidential I'm not sure whether or not teachers have one. Obviously we can talk generally about things to do with the children. "I saw a boy who had the same thing and he did X" but we can't mention names etc. Children over 13 yrs old are Gillick competent and we have to ask their permission to discuss any health related problems with even their parents. Teachers don't seem to be bound such strict rules on confidentiality. But even then discussing a child with others who are not parents/guardians I would have thought would be considered very wrong.
Taking photographs and showing them to friends I would have thought a very serious offence. . We never take photos of the children without parental/child consent, we like to have someone else witness us take it and we would never use our own phone/camera to take it, there are child protection issues around photos and we have to protect ourselves as well as our children.
This needs to be reported to your head and copied into the governors urgently and in writing and you should demand an investigation and be kept informed about what was found and done especially if it was your child who was in the photos.