The Fashionable Times Blog Principal's Message 10.10.16

Greetings Fashion Families from your Principal Daryl Blank.  We are only 8 days away from the end of the first marking period.  Make sure you and your child are checking Jupiter Grades to know where they stand in their classes.  Your child should be checking their HSFI email every day.  Students should be getting in the habit of checking their HSFI email every day because they will lose out on many opportunities if they don’t do so.

I am pleased to share with you another tool that HSFI has created to help support students who want some extra help – tutoring and mentoring from our National Honor Society students.  Every day we will have our very best students from the National Honor Society available after school to tutor and mentor their classmates.  All your child needs to do is go to the school library after school to receive this help.  Students can go after school whether they finish after 8^th period or after 9^th period.  This is in addition to the staff tutoring we have available to students.

If you have not done so yet, your child’s lunch application is now due.  I am pleased to announce that the deadline for submitting lunch applications is October 21.  After that date, if you have not returned your lunch application, students will have to pay the full price of $1.75 cents for lunch.  We still have close to 600 students who have not returned their application.  In addition, Title I funding in New York City is tied to the information that parents/guardians provide on the yearly lunch application.  The High School of Fashion Industries receives nearly $1 million in Title I funding each year.  You can now fill out your lunch application online at https://www.myschoolapps.com/

On the school website is a document that outlines the school committees that HSFI parents can participate in.  The committees include the Advocating & Preparing for Post-Secondary Success (APPS) Committee; the Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (Fashion Dollars) Committee; the Academic & Career and Technical Education Accreditation Committee; the Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Committee and the School Safety Committee.  Descriptions of the committees are on the document. It would be great to have as many HSFI parents as possible to get involved in developing our strategic plans to make HSFI better each day.

We maintain a weekly blog for HSFI Parents - the link is: http://hsfifashionabletimes.blogspot.com/

The school website has a section specifically for HSFI Parents – the link is: www.fashionhighschool.net

Thank you!