Greetings Fashion Families from your Principal, Daryl Blank.
This Wednesday, March 27 is PSAT /
SAT Day. This
is a day when all 10th graders will be taking the PSAT exam while
all of the 11th graders will be taking their SAT exam. 9th graders will be in school from
8:30 am to 11:30 am where they will be taking mandatory practice Regents exam
in Science and Social Studies. 12th
graders will be in school from 11:30 am to 2:30 pm where they will first have an
assembly to go over the remaining senior activities and will then report to
their senior major class to get work done towards the completion of their
senior projects. There are no regular
classes on this day. As usual. breakfast
and lunch will be available to all students.
I am very excited to
announce that HSFI’s version of ‘America’s Got Talent’ is this Friday, March 29th
with our annual Variety Show. This event
showcases the performing arts talents of our students including singing and
dancing. As always, we welcome families
to attend the event.
All Fashion families
should check out the ‘Student Opportunities’ page on our school website. This page has a long list of opportunities
that HSFI students can apply to including summer programs. You should check it out on a regular basis as
new opportunities are constantly being added to the page. The link on the website is:
I just received a message from the NYC Department of
Education this past Thursday that only 6 percent of Fashion Families have done
their Parent Survey – that is only 95 HSFI families out of almost 1600 families. The deadline is coming up on Wednesday, April
3. Please fill out the survey – we need
a high percentage of Fashion families to fill out the survey and show all of
NYC what HSFI is all about.
You can fill out the survey in 2 different ways – by filling
out the paper survey that you receive in the mail in a green envelope or you
can fill it out online.
To complete the survey online:
(1) Go to nycschoolsurvey.org.
(2) Click on the link to the parent and guardian survey.
(3) Enter your access code found at the bottom of your paper
survey.
(4) Complete the survey.
(5) Click ‘Submit’.
If you don’t receive a survey in the mail? Don’t worry! You
can also call the school at (212) 255-1235 where we you can get your Access
Code for the survey or call the NYC Department of Education at 1-877-819-2363 to get an Access Code to
complete the survey online.
I would be so grateful if you filled out the survey to reflect all
the hard work that I, along with my staff, put into making HSFI a unique
learning community. Please consider how
we work to build partnerships and relationships with you as Fashion Parents to
help your children learn, perform to their highest levels and meet their needs
inside and outside the classroom.
Students’ needs are met academically through challenging instruction and
industry partnerships connected to our fashion, art and business major classes;
social-emotionally through all our clubs and activities, Fashion Dollars and
our partnerships with Yale University and Harvard University; and health-wise
with our School Based Health Center that provides free health and dental care
to all Fashion students.
Please consider all our communication efforts – my weekly Sunday
at 5:00 pm phone calls and emails through School Messenger; our use of Jupiter
Grades for messages and updating you on your child’s grades; our maintenance of
a private website along with social media accounts including Facebook, Twitter
and Instagram; and an Assistant Principal specifically devoted to Family
Engagement and who makes sure all parent communication with the school is
followed up on.
Please consider our weekly invitations for you to volunteer at the
school. Please consider our Family
Visitation Days in the Fall and Spring where families are invited into the
school to observe classes and see your children and our teachers in
action. Please consider our invitations
to you to attend student performances like our SING musical production and the
Holiday Windows Unveiling with Barneys NY – these invitations will heat up in
the Spring with our annual Fashion Show, the International Center of Photography
exhibit and our Senior Art Show.
HSFI parents’ participation in these NYC Department of Education
surveys mean a tremendous amount to me, so please when you get the survey, fill
it out to reflect our efforts to make the High School of Fashion Industries the
best school possible!
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!
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