Greetings Fashion Families from your
Principal Daryl Blank.
It was great to see so many Fashion
Families attend our first Parents Association meeting of the school year this past
week.
At the meeting we spoke about our
school goals that every member of the High School of Fashion Industries’
community – students, families and staff feel cared for and challenged – and
what the school is doing to achieve these goals. Our belief is that people succeed when they
feel they are being cared for and challenged.
Our school community feels strongly that emotions matter at HSFI. Everything we do at the school will be
aligned to these goals.
All of our student clubs and activities will be highlighted this
Thursday, October 3 during HSFI’s Club Fair.
During students’ lunch periods they can go to the school lobby to see
all the choices for student clubs and activities where students and staff from
those clubs and activities will be there to provide information and sign up
students who are interested in joining them.
I encourage all students to attend – we try to have something for
everyone to connect with.
Also, this week is our first installment of our Student Town
Halls. Once a month I invite all
students who are interested to my Student Town Halls. Students can speak to me about anything they
wish – positive things happening at HSFI or changes that they want made. I will have these Town Halls every month –
please encourage your children to have their voice heard directly by me. This week’s town hall will be on Friday,
October 4 during all four lunch periods.
It is critically important that all
HSFI students check their HSFI email & Jupiter Grades everyday. Jupiter Grades is our online grading
system. 9th graders should
log onto their HSFI email to get the directions to log onto Jupiter
Grades. We will be sending important
information out through both 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.
Breakfast and lunch is free to all students in all of our NYC
public schools, regardless of income eligibility. I encourage all students to
eat lunch – it is very important they eat so they can concentrate on what is
being taught to them. Unfortunately, all
students and their families still need to submit lunch applications. 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/. You
will need the school’s zip code to start the online application which is
10011. After putting in the zip code,
you click on ‘New York City School.’ If
you are not receiving this message by email, this online application link will
be posted on the school website in the ‘Fashion News’ section at www.fashionhighschool.net.
Thank you!
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