Greetings Fashion Families from your Principal, Daryl
Blank.
As
you are planning your schedule for the week, I hope you can attend our February
Parents Association meeting this Wednesday, February 13 at 6:00 pm. This month the
Parents Association is hosting our Peer Group Connection program. Peer Group Connection is a program where HSFI
students in the upper grades are trained as mentors to our incoming ninth
graders as they transition into high school.
On
Monday, February 11, all Fashion Families are invited to the school for coffee and snacks in Room 127
from 9:00 am to 10:00 am with Assistant Principal of Family Engagement Danielle
Silva.
This week we are excited to continue our special First Monday
activities. Students will be in school
from 8:30 am to 1:30 pm. From 8:30 am to
9:25 am, students will have an opportunity to get tutoring and extra help from
teachers who will be in their classrooms.
Students should use this time to see teachers for classes where they
need extra assistance, have work to make-up or are concerned about improving their
grade. Students should take advantage of
this opportunity. From 9:30 am to 1:30
pm, students will then have the opportunity to participate in a number of
special activities where students expressed interest. Those activities are on your child’s class
program.
This week is Respect For All week –
during Respect For All week, we will have the opportunity to highlight and
build upon ongoing diversity programs and to embark upon new initiatives that
promote respect for diversity and focus on preventing bullying, intimidation,
and bias-based harassment. HSFI is encouraged to promote acceptance and
understanding through theme-based lessons and activities. Suggested topics
include, but are not limited to: celebrating kindness/how to be an ally,
anti-bullying/cyberbullying, respect for diversity, religious acceptance,
racial diversity, gender identity, sexual orientation, and LGBTQ acceptance. Attached to this email is a joint letter about
Respect For All week from the NYC Schools Chancellor, the United Federation of
Teachers, the Council of Supervisors and Administrators and the NYC Council
Speaker & Education Committee Chairperson.
Here is a schedule of our celebratory
events planned for next week:
Monday, February 11,
2019:
□ Upon entry, HSFI
Diversity Mural students holding hands, posted
to both columns and/or either side of the lobby.
Tuesday, February 12, 2019:
□ Tolerance Work Shop
Period 7 in 325
□ Healthy Relationships
and Teen Dating Violence—Period 2, 3, 5 & 6 @ Library. 9th
graders only ELA classes.
Wednesday, February 13,
2019:
□ Upon entry, Affirmation
Table, students pick up or prepare own affirmation regrading respect and
self-esteem.
□ Tolerance Work Shop
Period 5 in 829
Thursday, February 14,
2019:
□ Upon entry, LOVE IS
RESPECT table, students pick up Bracelets/Pins. Thought bubble NO PLACE
FOR HATE
□ Tolerance Work Shop
Period 6 in 325
□ Valentine’s Message on
Lockers-you are worth it!
Friday, February 15,
2019:
□ Healthy Relationships
and Teen Dating Violence—Period 3, 5, 8 & 9 @ Library. 9th
graders only ELA classes.
I wanted to remind all
Fashion Families that our computer lab opens at 7:30 am and closes at 5:00 pm. Students can their work on these computers and
print out documents that they need to. The
only class periods that it is not open right now are Periods 8 and 9. Our hope
is that the lab will be open Period 9 by next week. Please tell your children that they should
take advantage of the lab to complete their work.
I want to share with Fashion Families
that we have been working on the beautification of our student lounge. We
have purchased new furniture, vacuumed and scrubbed clean all the furniture we
already had and put on a protective spray on all of the furniture. Now
that the lounge is going to reopen, there are some expectations for all
students who use the lounge to maintain a clean and pleasant environment.
You have received these expectations via Jupiter Grades. Students have received these expectations via
Jupiter Grades and their HSFI email. If
students cannot follow these expectations, they will be asked to leave.
The lounge is a privilege. Only a few schools in the city provide a space like
this for students. Students need to respect the space and make it their
own.
It is critically important that all
HSFI students check their HSFI email & Jupiter Grades everyday. We will be sending important information out
through these tools – if students do not check them, they will miss out on some
valuable opportunities and not know what is going on in the school.
Thank you!
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