Digital Citizenship

At the beginning of each school year all families are asked to give consent for the use of their child's image by school staff for the purpose of celebrating and promoting school events and achievements.  There are some families who prefer their child's image not be broadcast on websites or social media. The school respects this parental decision and refrains for publishing photographs or video of those students.

At school events such as concerts, assemblies and other celebrations where parents and family members are invited to attend as guests the expectation for privacy is different. It is understood that families like to capture these special memories on photo and video and that when recording your own child there are times when you capture images of other children as well.

 

We are respectfully asking all families to carefully consider how those photos and videos are used after leaving the school.  If you choose to post online (Twitter, Instagram, etc.) pictures of your child(ren) that have been taken at a school event please ensure that other children's images are not in those photos.

 

When we teach our students about digital citizenship, we teach them that each individual owns his/her images and that one does not have the right to use those images without that person's permission.  Please respect the right of each family to choose when and how their children's images appear online.