Dear Parents

Over the years Mother Teresa School has produced an Annual Yearbook/Magazine that is available for purchase by parents and students. This annual publication is only produced as a magazine and is not available electronically.

This year three enthusiastic parents, Tanya Bolton, Lindsay Pennock and Kayla Kruger, who all hold a current Working with Vulnerable People Card, have volunteered to coordinate this huge task.  The coordination involves the sourcing of photos, page design and creation, publication and sale of the magazine to the parent community.

Earlier in the year you may recall I asked parents about the use of photos on various forms of social media. The production of our Yearbook/Magazine has presented a different issue.  To design the pages that capture important events that occur across the school year, together with specific class pages, the parent team will require access to our collection of school photos saved in the Mother Teresa School Google photo drive. The photos saved in this drive are taken by school staff or provided by parents who may be present at specific events during the year. The parent team require access to the photo drive so they can design the pages on their personal computers at home using CANVA Pro, a web-based publishing program.

In line with the current Catholic Education Privacy Policy, I am required to seek parental permission to allow the coordinating parent team to have access our stored school photos of individual children. While we would like all the children to be represented in the magazine, including a copy of their class photo, I want to respect any family’s privacy concerns.  

I will seek the help of the MTS staff to add your child if you are happy for your child to be included in the magazine.

Should you NOT want the parent team to have access the MTS photo collection, I need you to please let me know.

Please advise by emailing carmel.maguire@cg.catholic.edu.au by Wednesday 27 July ONLY IF:

• you are NOT comfortable with the parent team having access to our school file of your child’s photo for the production of the Yearbook/Magazine and/or
• you do NOT want you child included in the 2022 Yearbook/Magazine
• you would like more information related to Canva

 
Kind regards,

Carmel Maguire
Principal