Sunday, June 3, 2018

The Fashionable Times Blog Principal's Message 6.3.18


Greetings Fashion Families from your Principal, Daryl Blank. 

We only have 3 regular school days left – this Wednesday, June 6; this Friday, June 8; and next Monday, June 11. Make sure your children know this and appreciate the importance of finishing the school year strong.  Students must understand the grades that they receive in June will be the ones that colleges will see and ultimately determine whether or not they are scheduled for summer school or not.

Tomorrow, Monday, June 4, we will have our last installment of our new First Monday program.  The redesign of our First Monday involves students participating in educational activities where students selected from a menu of activities based on their personal interests.  Students report to school at 8:30 am where they will take attendance in their 3rd period classes.  From there, students will move onto their First Monday activity that will last until approximately 11:30 am.  At this point, students will be able to get lunch.  From 12:30 pm to 1:15 pm, students will have an opportunity to have individual conferences with their teachers and/or receive tutoring from them.  If a student is facing academic difficulties, I would encourage them to attend this session to meet with their teacher and receive additional tutoring, if needed.  The school day will officially end at 1:15 pm when HSFI teachers will then begin their professional development activities. If a student does not stay for lunch and does not take advantage of the opportunity to have individual conferences or tutoring from teachers, they can leave for home at 11:30 am.  Again, I encourage them to stay for lunch and take advantage of this individual time with their teachers.

On Tuesday, June 5, we will be administering the new Global History Regents Exam to all 10th graders and a culminating Merchandising exam – there will be no regular classes on this date and only the students taking these exams will be in attendance.  Students have been given an exam invitation who are taking these exams and must bring this invitation and their ID card to the exam.

There is no school for students this Thursday, June 7.  It is a staff professional development as we will be working with our staff to make sure we finish the school year strong and plan for next year.

Regents exam begin next Tuesday, June 12.  Exam invitations have been distributed to all students.  Please check with your children to make sure you know which exams they are scheduled to take.  Make sure your children are studying for these exams as they need them to graduate high school.  The June 2018 Regents examination schedule has also been sent out.  Please contact anyone of our Assistant Principals—Ms. Moore (English); Mr. Kohm (Math); Mr. Rodrigues (Social Studies); Ms. Frank (Science); Ms. Boulamaali (Majors) - if you have any specific questions about these exams. 

We are still looking for nominations for all the positions of our Parent Association Executive Board - PA President, PA Vice President, PA Treasurer, and School Leadership Team members.  If you are interested in running for a PA Executive Board position or nominating another HSFI parent, please visit the website link under Parent News section on the HSFI homepage, www.fashionhighschool.net.  Descriptions of the Parents Association positions are on the website link.  Here is direct website link:

Thank you!

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