The Fashionable Times Blog Principal's Message 12.16.18

Greetings Fashion Families from your Principal Daryl Blank.

This is the last week of school until our Winter Break – every day of instruction is important so make sure students are making them count!  All students come back to school on Wednesday, January 2.  Once we get back from vacation, we will have two and a half weeks of school until the Fall term ends where teachers submit their final grades that colleges and universities will see.  January Regents will take place the week of January 22. 

One of our showcase events of the school year is taking place this week - our Holiday Windows Unveiling is this Tuesday, December 18.  This windows unveiling is part of our partnership with Barney’s New York and their Creative Ambassador Simon Doonan.  The theme for our holiday windows this year is "Fashion Icons." Our seniors will be showcasing the following ‘Fashion Icons’: Dapper Dan; Christian Louboutin; Rihanna; Diana Ross; Andy Warhol; and Andre Leon Talley.  This list represents the wide spectrum in which fashion impacts our world--through design, influencers (pop-culture), art, and media (magazines).  The unveiling in at 5:30 pm in the school lobby.  All Fashion Families are welcome to attend!  Our Fashion Design students have the Fashion Show, our Graphics and Illustration students have the Senior Art Show, our Business students have Virtual Enterprises and Shark Tank, and this showcase event is a big deal for our Visual Merchandising students.

Over the holiday break, the custodial staff will be cleaning and disinfecting all hallway lockers.  All students MUST clear out their lockers by this Friday, December 21.  Students must take out all their property and take off the lock on their locker.  This week, students will be receiving information for their new locker.  There are a number of positives about this change including:

(1) We will be trying to get students’ new lockers close to the location of their first class of the day

(2) The new lockers will stop students who are currently using the wrong locker

(3) All unassigned lockers will be bottom lockers – there will be more top lockers in use which is the type of lockers most students want

Students will move into their new locker on Wednesday, January 2.  Thank you for understanding the need for this change.  All students MUST clear out their lockers by this Friday, December 21.  Students must take out all their property and the lock on the locker.

Speaking of Fashion Dollars, please encourage your children to deposit their Fashion Dollar tokens.  We need Fashion Dollar tokens as we are running out of them.  We have decided to allow Fashion Dollar balances to carry over until next school year IF students deposit their tokens.  Students do not need to worry about their balances going to ZERO.  We want them back, so we can give them back to students so they spend them on rewards and privileges!!

It is critically important that all HSFI students check their HSFI email & Jupiter Grades everyday.  Every day we send out a daily announcements message that lists all the activities for the day and key reminders.  If students do not read these daily announcements and do not check their HSFI email and Jupiter Grades, they will miss out on some valuable opportunities and not know what is going on in the school.

Thank you!