One method I use is to hang broad strips of ribbon and attach photos to these using paperclips. It works particularly well in windows as you can put up photos on both sides. It is also extremely easy to change photos over and/or give families the photo as soon as they request a copy.

I recently cut thin pieces of ply wood into squares big enough to paste my children's photos on which was also backed with black cardboard. I drilled a small hole at the top and bottom of each piece of ply and threaded some twine to connect the mobile together.
The use of wood with the black and white photos and drawings looks very affective.

If your students are able to make their own powerpoint slide presentations using some photos to talk about their lives, they can add in anything (literally) their sport, likes dislikes, pets, dreams. What I would like to do when I grow up, samples of their work even. Favourite movies, even their own humour with sound effects. etc etc

You could have them set up a screen as mentioned earlier and have them going non-stop.

Thanks Mia, Kristy, Jane and anonymous for your suggestions. They're all fabulous ideas. I'll be using them all.

Hi there Jane,

There are soooooooo many ways you can display your photo's I wouldn't know where to begin!
A lot depends on what the photo's are of and what the theme is. To give you some examples of what I've done...

During our KG2 nursery rhymes theme I made a multi-coloured brick wall (flat) out of construction paper then took photo's of all my kids making a face as if they were falling. As my class are Busy Bees I cut out their faces and stuck them on mini bee cutouts. I then made a hive falling off the wall and stuck the class bees falling out of the hive. I also stuck mine and my assistant's photo on cut-outs of soldiers with tape and glue ready to stick the busy bees back together again... and made up our own version of Humpty Dumpty to accompany :)

For our Sea-life theme we had photos of our children (faces) sitting in their own fishing boats with rods (straws & string) and fish that the kids coloured and decorated themselves dangling on the end. Get the idea?... you can personalise any classroom theme you are covering by substituting your everyday worksheets with your childrens' pics. Hope that helps? If your photo's are of objects or school trips you can make the scenery to fit the pic!... and cutting the photo's into appropriate shapes (or sticking them onto related paper shapes) makes interesting displays. Good luck :)

Hi-what sort of photos are you displaying? Is it children's families, children's photos (eg photos they took) or photos of them working on projects?

Four ideas we use in our class are
1) make photo collages
2) use cheap raw photo frames (use all the same so it doesn't look tacky or messy)
3) use photos in word documents to write the links to curriculum/eylf and then print the doc and simply pin it onto noticeboard
4) print the photo off and pin it onto the child's work which is then pinned up.

Hope thats a start :)

Cheers
Kristy

If they're individual photos of students, I print them at 6x8" (at least), shoulders up - and cut them out! Place together creatively (sometimes I print student name on photo) along the bottom of a display area and there should be room in your display to add speech balloons or other types of comments, opinions, writing etc.

Last year I headed a display "I like ....School because..." all printed in bubble writing. Under this, above the profile photos, I had all the reasons the students like our school. This was a Year 2 class. Good luck!

Another idea is to create a wonderful mosaic on the theme of your photos. Mass them together (again, some cutting out really helps the effect)and they look fabulous!

Buy a cheap digital photo frame and have that playing in the room. OR set up a computer solely for photo display if you have old ones at your school. The kids love it and so do the parents!