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Policy statement for the use of photographic devices at High Ongar Primary School

The school are:

• Aware that there is a possibility that photographic images can be used inappropriately and/or for illegal purposes.
• Aware that families like to record events in their children’s school career.
• Under the impression that photographs/videos generated by parents at school events are for the sole use of the family concerned. They are not for display, distribution or any other purpose outside of that family.
• This policy statement describes how we will seek to safeguard children by making families aware of the uses of photographic images taken by them at school events.

Rationale

High Ongar Primary School staff and Governors wish to make every effort to prevent any inappropriate use of photographic images children at this school, whilst acknowledging that families wish to photograph/video their children at school events throughout their school career.

Entitlement

All children, families and staff at High Ongar Primary School have the right to be protected from the misuse of their digital images.

Requirements

Photographs of children, taken individually or in groups, are taken by school staff:

• To enhance displays around the school.
• To demonstrate the delivery of the curriculum.
• To demonstrate to parents and visitors how children engage with activities.
• To enhance the school website.
• As a record of learning across the school. In the FS only cameras provided by the school will be used to photograph children.

Photographs/videos are also taken by parents and other family members as a memento of their involvement in e.g. Christmas nativities, parties and sports days. On occasions, photographs of children may appear in the local newspapers, as a means of sharing our achievements with the community. Permission will have been sought from parents before they are submitted for publication.

At celebrations/school events other families may take photographs/videos that may include another child/ren, if parents have any objections to this please see a member of the staff. Parents taking photographs/videos at school events should take appropriate images, be sensitive to other people and try not to disrupt the event.

The images taken are only allowed on the understanding that they are for a family’s personal use and will not be reproduced or posted on any social networking sites, including ‘Facebook’. If any filming or photography is carried out by the news media, children will only be named if there is particular reason to do so, e.g. they have won a prize; home addresses will never be given out.