School and Childcare Portrait Photography

Schools + Childcare Directors Frequently Asked Questions FAQ - School Portrait Art Photography Services

Below we answer directors frequently asked questions FAQ for School Portrait Art Photography Services.

School Portrait Art offers boutique school and childcare photography and products whilst considering all budgets.  We would absolutely love to provide your yearly photography services.

Learn more about our process with the following frequently asked questions and confidently book your photography with us.

School Portrait Day.

We are known for our post-shoot order system, allowing parents to see exactly what their child's photo looks like before paying. We offer a variety of backdrops, including outdoor styles and quality studio settings. Our services include group composite or traditional class portraits, as well as individual student portraits, commemorating the school years with professionalism and personal care.

Childcare and Kindy Portrait Day.

All childcare photos feature beautiful backdrops with a new theme each year, providing a professional finish that parents can't achieve at home. Our studio backdrops support speed, efficiency, and an uninterrupted flow, ensuring high-quality group and individual portraits that celebrate the early years.


What is your process once we make a booking with School Portrait Art?

Child Care Centres and Kindies

  1. The month prior to your booked dates we will be in contact to collect the data for those in attendance of your centre.
  2. We provide flyers and posters to remind families of the upcoming Portrait Days.
  3. We ask you to dispatch these flyers to your families at least 2 weeks prior to Portrait Day.
  4. Families follow the instruction to pre-register their child, this is particularly important for sibling photographs to be taken.
  5. It is important management informs the Educators that they will also be photographed during our visit. We also ask you to advise Educators on avoiding messy play on the morning of Portrait Days.
  6. On Portrait Day your Photographer and Assistant will work closely with your educators to photograph every child at the service, however, those who register will have more time spent with them. The Photographer will work photographing the youngest to the oldest children. We discontinue photographing once children sit for lunch. 
  7. .Parents are most welcome to bring siblings to the centre to be photographed
  8. Approx. 7 days after the photography date online galleries open,  An order return date is set usually 1-2 weeks later. 
  9. The final prints are then dispatched back to the centre approximately 7 + Aus Post Delivery days after the order deadline.




Schools

  1. The month prior to your booked dates we will be in contact to collect the data for your students.
  2. We provide posters to remind families of the upcoming Portrait Days.
  3. We work with you to create a Portrait Day schedule to suit your timetable.
  4. Sibling portraits available.
  5. POST SHOOT PAY> Students will be provided an access key to order their individual and class portrait packages from an online portal. Here they can see the student's image before making payment. 14-day ordering window. Production is complete within 7 + Aus Post Delivery days of order close. 
  6. PRE SHOOT PAY> Students pre-pay online before Photo Day. No preview of the image, production is complete within 14 + Aus Post Delivery days after your school photo day.
    Both provide free postage to schools. Photos are available for order after delivery, $15 postage is added to orders to post prints to the family's home. 
  7. School will be provided: All students individual files, All staff individual files, All class composite files, 1 x Set of Class Prints 

Your communication with parents during the process has a huge impact on how smoothly the process runs and we ask that you send reminders to parents about deadlines, upcoming Portrait Day, when their orders are due and even when they can expect prints back. Your support is greatly appreciated.


Do families Pre-Pay, how do they order?

We do not ask families at schools or childcare centre to to Pre-Pay for their portraits.

We photograph all school students, while at childcare centres we spend more time on those who pre-register.

AFTER Portrait Day, families can access their child's private Passcoded gallery from the website 

FIND MY PORTRAIT GALLERY link on our homepage. Here they view and order their individual photographs.

We offer Digital Files through download links, Prints, and Wall Art collections.

All orders are paid with Credit Card online. There is no cash or envelope handling for the school or centre.


Are your staff qualified and professional?

All of our team hold a Working with Children Check WWCC for their State.​

We select photographers and assistants who love and have experience working with children.

We prefer to partner with professional photographers who already run their own Children's Portrait Photography businesses.

Our assistants have been recruited based on their organisational skills, personality, and playful zest. 

Usually from a childcare or babysitting background.




What do we the school or childcare centre receive? 
Is there a booking fee?

Please contact us for a quote on visiting your educational institute. By charging a session fee to the school, we do not raise our standard package prices to penalize families of remote bookings.

You will be provided with printed class groups, the digital files of these for your establishment's use, files of all students for your management software along with prints of the team individually or as a staff composite.

Depending on the size of your establishment you will benefit from additional rewards, such as artwork for your administration.

Please discuss this when you make your booking.


BOOK YOUR CENTRE OR SCHOOL PORTRAITS TODAY.

Contact us with your location, number of children,
and preferred month for centre portraits.

catherine@schoolportraitart.com.au
P. 0402 023 241

 
 
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