Images of Children

There are many occasions on which we may wish to take photographs of pupils.  For example, cameras (including video) are sometimes used in lessons to record pupils’ activities.  We may wish to use some of these images in our school prospectus or in other printed publications that we produce, as well as on our website.  We also like to take photographs of the form group and wish to include all the students.

From time to time, we may be visited by the media who will take photographs or film footage of a visiting dignitary or other high profile event.  Pupils will often appear in these images, which may appear in local or national newspapers, or on televised news programmes.

We will not use the personal details or full names (which means first name and surname) of any child or adult in a photographic image on video, on our website, in our school prospectus or in any of our other printed publications.  If we use photographs of individual pupils, we will not use the name of that child in the accompanying text or photo caption.  If we name a pupil in the text, we will not use a photograph of that child to accompany the article.  We may use group or class photographs or footage with very general labels, such as “a science lesson” or “Sports Day”.

We hope that parents will be happy for the school to make sound judgements about the use of imaging, but to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 we need seek permission before we use images of a student.