Would you be annoyed? Seesaw

[Honeybeebuzz]

Hi,

My little one is in reception and the school uses the seesaw apps to communicate and send pictures of what the children are doing. Usually photos are posted once a month. Ive noticed the last three times the teacher has posted pictures there are none of my child or just the back of their head. Certain children seem to get loads of pictures and im starting to get annoyed. Should I say something? We havent gotten a picture of our child in 3 months. They also posted an Instagram story of the class and again not one picture of my child was shown. My DH says just to leave it but its starting to feel like my child is actually being targeted a bit, there is one photo of the table she is sat at and they have actually cut her out of the picture. Ive checked and ive signed the photo consent forms

Check with the teacher about consent, they have probably got confused.

Poor teachers. As if they aren’t busy enough without dealing with this. I doubt very much your 4 year old is a target! It much easier for them to post nothing, and if they have to deal with stuff like this, I imagine that’s exactly what they’ll chose to do!

I already checked with reception at the start of the year plus they have previously posted pictures. Just feel its the only way we see what the children are doing so its frustrating that the same favourites are repeatedly shown

It can of course hurt to feel your child is overlooked. I do understand (am a parent and teacher). However, photos via an app is an added extra (we don't do it at all in my school) but I can imagine how time consuming it would be to have to cross check against a list of 30+ pupils every time. Similarly, if the teacher isn't adding lots of photos it may mean s/he is much more hands on in the classroom rather than spending time taking photos. I highly doubt the teacher would be photographing "favourites" only, as you suggested. For a start it would be a very obvious and public way to intentionally piss people off! My advice would be to shake it off, but if you do want to raise it, do so with some of understanding of how easy it might be to have accidentally missed out some of the kids. Just to add, I have seen one photo of my elsest child via school app all year - my child's class teacher recently added a whole class shot that my child wasn't in despite being there that day 🫣 I guess she was maybe in the bathroom or something?! My youngest child's school doesn't send photos to parents via an app.

I'm really struggling to think of a reason why a teacher would do this intentionally.

I had the same, then at Christmas the teacher asked me if I could give one off permission for the school play video. Turns out DD had been put on the no permission for photos list by mistake.

My child’s best friend didn’t have permission which I think impacted on how many photos my child was in in reception as they were together a lot ( obviously no issue with this, and only knew because my child said their friend wasn’t allowed in class photos)

Just contact the teacher and say "I've noticed there have been any photos of x recently, would it be possible to take a couple of them? Thanks so much, I realise this is an extra task for you"

Simple straightforward communication

You seriously can not raise this with the teacher, honestly they have enough to do. Some kids go straight for the camera, some shy away. My dd was in every photo as she pushed her way in, my ds in hardly any as he's not a lover of having his picture taken.

You can't seriously think the teacher is singling your child out not to he in Seesaw photos?!? Wait til they start giving star parts in plays, closing class leaders etc, your head willpower if you don't get this in to perspective now.

Does your child like taking pictures? It may be that they actively avoid them.

I can’t imagine that there is any personal vendetta going on. Otherwise I would have to imagine that your child is not photogenic which no one really wants to think of children

Oh geez. Just take some photos of your kid doing stuff at home instead. 🙄

My kid was in lots of photos on the class app. It's not because he was a favourite, it was because he has SEN and so had TA support. The TA was often the one taking pics (because presumably the teacher was teaching) and so he appeared in lots alongside whichever group he was in. Never occurred to me that anyone would be upset about this!

Asking about the consent for photos is one way to bring it up without sounding mad.

I taught reception with online learning journeys. Yes some children do tend to get more photos that other but very often the children with more photos are the ones coming up to you showing you what they’ve done and asking for a picture.

Complaining to the teacher about this non-issue is the fastest way to get the whole (ridiculous, in my view) shebang shut down altogether.
How on earth are school staff expected to have this task added to their already extensive 'to-do' list? And then to have people accusing them of "targeting" their child because there are no recent pictures of them?
Jesus.

At 2.50 the teacher will think oh fuck I have no evidence for the maths task so will quickly snap the group who are still finishing. Do you think that on top of remembering to take a photo, remembering who can't be in a photo the staff then think oh there's x, I'll purposely not take a photo of them? 🤣

Most of the pics of my kids at school are the back of their heads or a nose or hand etc it’s not like the teacher thinks oh I won’t take any pics of op kid ever just happens to be whoever is there at the time in the pic they want to take. It’s the least of my worries about school tbh I was just glad my son stayed in class and didn’t do a runner etc (asd) he found school so hard
I’m sure there will be some of him soon op

Gosh, complaining about this is the best way of getting no photos of any of the kids taken in future.

You think your child is being targeted? 😂 You’ve obviously never worked in a school.

Asking nicely is not complaining

Thanks for all your feedback,
We have a PT meeting coming up so will see if it comes up naturally or not. I don't really want to make it into a big deal but also i think if i dont bring it up to the teacher it will continue for the rest of the yeah and ill be kicking myself!