Greetings Fashion Families from your Principal, Daryl Blank.
We have 6 weeks of classes left before Regents examinations. Make sure your children know this and appreciate the importance of finishing the school year strong. Second marking period report cards were distributed this past Friday. Counselors will be programming students for summer school based on these marking period two grades. Students must understand the grades that they receive in June will be the ones that colleges will see.
It was great to see Fashion families at our student work showcases this past week that included the opening of our International Center of Photography exhibit and our Senior Art Show that featured our Graphics & Illustration students. When you get a chance, please take some time to visit Room 821 (Principal’s Conference Room) to see the amazing photos in the International Center of Photography exhibit and the school lobby to see the spectacular art work from our seniors. The work is a testament to the community we have built here at HSFI to see these work products.
Our Fashion Show is next Friday, May 17. There will be two shows – one at 5:00 pm and one at 7:00 pm. Tickets to the 5:00 pm show will be $5 and tickets for the 7:00 pm show will be $7. All money raised from ticket sales will be reinvested in our fashion design program for next year’s show. Tickets are available online at our HSFI Webstore - https://webstores.activenetwork.com/school-software/high_school_of_fashi/
As always, our window displays will reflect the amazing work that our Visual Merchandising students do on a daily basis.
Our presentation at Harvard University’s ‘Beyond Desegregation’ conference was very well received by attendees from all over the country. Our biggest stars were three of our students who are taking leadership roles with this work – Analia Firpo (11th grader), Ocean Hardwick (11th grader) and Rukaiyaa Arssath (11th graders). We shared our attempts to create a vision of race and equity at HSFI. We have certainly not solved these issues, but we are headed in the right direction by trying to address them. Thank you to all of you for the support of these efforts and feedback to improve the quality of our work. We should all be very proud that we are leading these efforts in the largest school district in the country!
This week, May 6-10, is Teacher Appreciation Week. Please feel free to email or send a Jupiter message to thank our teachers for their efforts and dedication to your children and the HSFI community.
All Fashion families should check out the ‘Student Opportunities’ page on our school website. Applications for Summer Youth Employment 2019 are now available. 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:
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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