Greetings
Fashion Families from your Principal Daryl Blank.
It was an exciting week at the High
School of Fashion Industries between the Holiday Windows unveiling as part of
our partnership with Barney’s New York and our SING musical performance this
past Friday. In addition, our senior
Fashion Marketing students won the first round of their Virtual Enterprises
business plan competition. This week is
Spirit Week where students can dress up each day under specific themes: Monday is Disney/Superhero Day; Tuesday is
Twin Day; Wednesday is ‘Wear Pink’ Day; Thursday is ‘Jersey/ Sports’ Day and Friday
is ‘Grade Day.’
Every
week I am going to highlight the ways in which our HSFI families can volunteer
to support the school. We have 3 school committees
going on this week where we would love to have parent representation.
#1 - The
Social Emotional
Learning Committee is on Monday, December 19 from 9:00 am to 9:45 am in Room
821. This committee’s primary purpose is
to develop a comprehensive plan to have all members of the HSFI community
appreciate that emotions matter and building up social-emotional intelligence
will have a positive impact on engagement, relationships, health,
decision-making and academic success.
#2 – The Positive Behavior Fashion
Dollars Committee is on Tuesday, December 20 from 1:15 pm to 2:00 pm in Room
821. The primary purpose of the Positive
Behavior Interventions and Supports Committee is to examine how the Fashion
Dollars programs can support students’ performance at the High School of Fashion
Industries.
#3 – The Academic / Career &
Technical Education Committee is on Thursday, December 22 from 10:40 am to 11:25
am in Room 821. The primary purpose of
the Academic and Career and Technical Education Committee is to examine the
impact of our homework policy on students’ academic performance at the High
School of Fashion Industries.
Please
just come to these committees if you are interested in attending.
The
student government has two events on Thursday, December 22, that we could use
help with. First, is Henna Day where we
have some students doing henna for their classmates. We need assistance selling tickets and monitoring
participation – the time frame is from 10:30 am – 2:00 pm. The second is the HSFI Showcase where our
performance groups including our dance teams will be presenting their skills in
the auditorium from 3:45 pm until 5:30 pm. We need ticket collectors, ushers
and ticket sales help. Please email me
directly at dblank@schools.nyc.gov
if you are able to volunteer your time and efforts to these events.
We have a full week of school this week until our Winter
Break – every day of instruction is important so make sure students are making
them count! Once we get back from
vacation, we will have 3 full weeks of school until the Fall term ends; teachers
submit their final grades that colleges and universities will see; and January
Regents will take place from Tuesday, January 26 through Friday, January 29.
Make sure you and your child are
checking Jupiter Grades to know where they stand in their classes. Students should be checking their HSFI email
every 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
School will reopen on Tuesday,
January 3, 2017. Thank you!
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