Go Green For Halloween!

Some behind the scenes shots of students preparing for this year's launch of the Go Green for Halloween Fashion Show:

New Design High School - 8th Grade Admissions

Attention all 8th grade students and Prospective Parents!


Admissions for the New Design High School Class of 2014 has begun!

Congratulations on your 8th grade year and the start of your journey to high school. New Design would like to welcome you at our ADMISSIONS OPEN HOUSE tours that will be help:

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 (Election Day - no school for students) at 2:00pm

or

Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 6:00pm

All tours will take place at 350 Grand Street, 4th Floor between Essex and Ludlow in the lower east side of Manhattan. Trains J/M/Z to Delancey or F train to Essex or the B/D to Grand Street.

Please choose either date to attend. We ask that parents, guardians or guidance counselors please attend with prospective students. There are NO RESERVATIONS needed to attend the admissions open house tours.


New Design High School is an educational option enrollment school which means 50% of our students that apply to NDHS are selected by our admissions team and 50% are selected by lottery. We ask students that really would like to attend NDHS in the Fall of 2010 must attend an open house tour.

For any other questions or concerns about NDHS admissions please email newdesignhigh@gmail.com.

Thank you!

Tim Gunn works with New Design Students on the ANTI-PROM

Going to NDHS Summer School?

Yes, its that time of the year again....NEW DESIGN HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER SCHOOL:

If you have not already picked up your report card and check in on your summer school registration, please contact Morri at 212.475.4148!

Here are the Summer Session Dates:

Session 1: June 29-July 10, 2009
Session 2: July 13-July 24, 2009
Session 3: July 27-August 7, 2009

Global Studies Regents Prep with Urban Arts: July 27 - August 12, 2009
**EXAM DATE: August 13, 2009 ** This course is by special admissions only.

Regents Exams: August 13 & 14, 2009

ALL SUMMER SCHOOL SESSIONS BEGIN AT 9:00AM AT PACE HIGH SCHOOL LOCATED AT 100 HESTER STREET AT THE CORNER OF ELDRIDGE. PLEASE REPORT TO THE 4TH FLOOR.

Remember: NO LATES and NO ABSENCES! This is your chance to recover credits and graduate on time!

Make the right choices!

GREEN FUTURES SUMMER SCHOOL

Our Year One students visited Rooftop Farms in Greenpoint to see organic farming at its best. Students walked over the Williamsburgh Bridge to get to the farm. Check out the GROWING CHEFS link on the right!

YEAR 1 IDENTITY BOXES

Ben Rojas helped our Year One students create identity boxes for their stopmotion movies. These boxes represent their exterior selves, their spirit animals, and their id monsters! They are Matryoshka dolls that fit inside one another. The project helps students learn how to draw the front, back, and sides of objects.

THIRD GRADER COMMUNITY PROJECT

Julie's Year Two class made plush toys for stories their third grade buddies wrote. Too cool!

PERSPECTIVE FURNITURE

Dave and Brian asked their students to let an assigned piece of material change their PERSPECTIVE about how furniture is made. Check out the results!

New Design Daily News Prom Pictorial

After a very successful New Design High School prom last week at Tavern on the Green an exciting pictorial spread was published today, June 11, 2009 in the Daily News. Not only did all of our youth have a safe and amazing experience - they made NYC history being the first class to have prom published in the news paper! We will surely miss the Class of 2009!

PROMALONGADINGDONG 2009

YOUTH EMPOWERED BROADCAST

Dr. Scott Conti was the first guest on new talk radio program YOUTH EMPOWERED on the BLOG TALK RADIO channel. See the link below to hear the broadcast.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/YOUTH-EMPOWERED

UGLY DOLLS!