Greetings Fashion Families from your Principal, Daryl
Blank.
As
you are planning your schedule for the week, I hope you can attend our January
Parents Association meeting this Wednesday, January 16 at 6:00 pm in Room 821.
On
Monday, January 14, 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 Thursday and Friday, it would be
wonderful if you and your family could attend our SING musical
performance. SING
is a fun and exciting musical competition show that is written, produced,
performed and designed by the students.
Students are involved in SING in many different ways including set &
costume design, dancing, singing, acting, musical performance, script &
songwriting, and marketing. Our SING Coordinator, Ms. Vega, and our
students have been rehearsing non-stop and we need to support their efforts –
bring friends and families as we celebrate the performing arts at HSFI! Thursday’s performance on January 17 is at
4:00 pm and Friday’s performance on January 18 is at 6:00 pm.
We have one week of school until the Fall term ends. The grades that teachers submit at the end of
January are the grades that colleges and universities will see. Make sure your child finishes the semester
strong.
January Regents will take place from Tuesday, January 22
through Friday, January 25. Check with
your child about whether or not they are scheduled to take any exams. Regents exam invitations have been
distributed to students. If students do
not have Regents exams, they do not report to school. A large majority of our students do not have
Regents exams – all 11th graders are taking the English Regents and
students who previously were not successful on exams or want to get a higher
grade, have the opportunity to take exams again.
When students come to school for these Regents exams they
should bring: (1) Exam ticket (2) Student identification card and (3) 2 pencils
and 2 pens. It is important that
students DO NOT BRING ELECTRONIC
EQUIPMENT INTO THEIR TESTING ROOM. We tell students to put their
electronic equipment in their lockers before their exam. The presence of this electronic equipment
with your child will result in their score being invalidated and given a 0 on
the exam. This electronic equipment
policy is New York State law. Please
contact anyone of our Assistant Principals—Ms. Moore (English); Mr. Kohm
(Math); Mr. Rodrigues (Social Studies); Ms. Frank (Science) - if you have any
specific questions about these exams.
We are happy to announce a new resource for HSFI students and
families – we have created a Spring Semester and
Summer Internship Opportunities website
page posted in the Parent News section on the school website homepage at fashionhighschool.net.
As we receive information about programs available in NYC, we will continue to
post this information. Please keep in
mind that there are limited seats in these programs, all require that
you fill out an application or waiver, and have very strict
deadlines. It is never too early to plan for spring and summer. The
link to the Spring Semester and Summer Program and Internship
Opportunities page is
Please continue to
encourage your children to deposit their Fashion Dollar tokens. We want
them back, so we can give them back to students so they spend them on rewards
and privileges! And remember that students should spend their Fashion Dollars,
that is what they are there for.
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!
