The Fashionable Times Blog Principal's Message 9.24.17

Greetings Fashion Families from your Principal Daryl Blank.  It was great to see so many HSFI parents at our first Parents Association meeting of the school year this past Wednesday.

Fashion Cares will be collecting donations for The Puerto Rican Family Institute for recent hurricane and earthquake victims.  The supplies that are most needed are: toiletries (soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, conditioner, brushes, combs, deodorant, etc), non-perishable foods (canned foods, oatmeal, bags of rice, dried beans, crackers, etc).  Donations should be brought to room 646 the week of September 25th-29th.

I want to announce that our Lateness Plan will begin this Monday, September 25.  For this week, our plan is to not allow late students up to class first period after 8:15 am (five minutes after the music stops playing) – no student will be allowed into classrooms after 8:20 am (we are giving students these five minutes between 8:15 and 8:20 to get to class). Obviously, we will not use this plan if there are major transit delays on that particular morning.  Our students’ job right now is being a student, our students must be on time to work.  Students who are late will be housed in our auditorium until the next class period begins.

This coming Thursday, September 28 & Friday, September 29, we will be holding our annual Student Club Fair with over 30 clubs and activities presenting at the fair.  Please encourage your children to attend the Club Fair and then join a club or activity that interests them.

SONY pictures has developed an Anti-Bullying Public Service Announcement connected to the ‘Spiderman: Homecoming’ film and will be launching the PSA at HSFI this Tuesday.  They will have some people who worked on the film including an actress and one of the stunt people at the school to help launch it.  Our student government will be involved as well.  After the anti-bullying PSA launch, they will be doing a screening of the entire ‘Spiderman: Homecoming’ film for the entire HSFI community. 

All students and their families still need to submit lunch applications.  You can now fill out your lunch application online at https://www.myschoolapps.com/.  If you do not want to do the lunch application online, we have paper copies of the application all throughout the school building.  The easiest place for your child to pick up a paper lunch application is in the school lobby when they arrive to school or in the school’s main office in Room 125.  All paper applications should be returned to the school’s main office in Room 125.  I hate to bother you about these lunch applications, but they are necessary to get the much needed funding for the school.

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!

The Fashionable Times Blog Principal's Message 9.17.17

Greetings Fashion Families from your Principal Daryl Blank.

As you are planning your schedule for the week I hope you can attend our first Parents Association meeting of the school year, this Wednesday, September 20 at 6:00 pm in Room 829.

Program changes are complete as students received their updated programs this past Friday.  Ninth graders and their families will receive their Jupiter Grades login information this week in their Spanish classes (sorry for the delay).  Ninth graders will also get their student identification cards this week.

This week I want to highlight our commitment to emergency preparedness at the High School of Fashion Industries.  The school will conduct three types of drills with students – evacuation drills, shelter-in drills and lockdown drills.  Attached to this email and on the school website are letters from the school that outline our preparation for these safety drills.  Also included are some website links to some emergency preparedness videos produced by the New York City Department of Education that will give you a visual representation of these drills.

Full Safety Preparedness video: Vimeo.com/nycschools/safetypreparedness

Assembly Card video: Vimeo.com/nycschools/assemblycard

Lock Down video: Vimeo.com/nycschools/lockdown

Evacuate video: Vimeo.com/nycschools/evacuate

Shelter In video: Vimeo.com/nycschools/shelterin

As you know by now, lunch is now free to all students in all of our NYC public schools, regardless of income eligibility. This means that all meals – both breakfast and lunch – served by the Department of Education’s SchoolFood program will be at no cost to families.  This is a wonderful thing!  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/

I want to announce that beginning next Monday, September 25, students who are 10 minutes late to their first and/or second period class will not be allowed into those classes to stop the disruption that is caused by late students.  Obviously, we will not use this plan if there are major transit delays on that particular morning.  Our students’ job right now is being a student, our students must be on time to work.  Students who are late will be housed in our auditorium until the next class period begins.

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!

The Fashionable Times Blog Principal's Message 9.10.17

Greetings Fashion Families from your Principal Daryl Blank.

This week we will be running program changes for students who need them on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday beginning with our 9^th graders.  Please keep in mind that these program changes will only be approved for changes that are needed for meeting graduation requirements.  Changes will not be approved based on teacher preferences.  Returning students will not be allowed to drop honors and Advanced Placement classes that they signed up for last year – we programmed and budgeted for this school year based off these requests.  Students will not be allowed to drop classes that help them meet college and career readiness requirements including their major along with math and science classes.  The expectation is that all HSFI students complete their major program and take 4 years of math and science classes if these classes can fit into their program.  All students must be scheduled for 5 and a half hours of instruction everyday.

As I announced last week, lunch is now free to all students in all of our NYC public schools, regardless of income eligibility. This means that all meals – both breakfast and lunch – served by the Department of Education’s SchoolFood program will be at no cost to families.  This is a wonderful thing!  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/

I want to announce that beginning on Monday, September 25, students who are 10 minutes late to their first and/or second period class will not be allowed into those classes to stop the disruption that is caused by late students.  Obviously, we will not use this plan if there are major transit delays on that particular morning.  Our students’ job right now is being a student, our students must be on time to work.  Students who are late will be housed in our auditorium until the next class period begins.

It is critically important that all HSFI students check their HSFI email & Jupiter Grades everyday.  9^th graders and their families will be receiving their Jupiter Grades login information by the end of the week in their Spanish classes.  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!