Archives for January 2008
On January 21, 2008, St. John’s welcomed a guest speaker, Mr. Bryan Smith, the headmaster of St. Peter’s Classical Christian Academy in Fort Worth, Texas. St. Peter’s is a small K-12 Orthodox Christian day school like St. John’s, and consequenlty Mr. Smith had a good perspective on the kind of school we are. After visiting […]
On the feast of Theophany of our Lord, January 19, it is customary to bless the waters after the liturgy. As is usually done in the Cathedral, the procession around the church stops in the church courtyard, where a large font is set up full of water to be blessed. This year, the church […]
St. John’s students collected toys for less fortunate children of the city and together with Mrs. Triantafillidis, hand delivered the heavy load to the San Francisco Firefighters. Thank you to these students who helped bring gifts and a happy Christmas to deserving children of San Francisco.
This year’s Christmas Program (Yolka) was a musical version of the Nutcracker, directed by Mr. Seraphim Winslow and Mrs. Veronika Bozhich. Students from grades K-6 participated by singing, dancing and acting. The wonderful performance was full of truly gifted actors and dancers. Following the play, St. John’s was honored with a visit from the […]
This year the 7th graders read Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in English class and were fortunate enough to attend the ACT production. Unlike past years, this years’ production was special in that our 6th grader Mia Kalo played one of the characters. Under the guidance of their English teacher Mrs. Maximov, the students decided […]
