Team ‘B’ Knows!

On May 19, at St. John’s annual “I Know” contest, Team B took the honors by answering 24 questions. Nina Avroneva, Sasha Kondratyeva, Jessica Makhlin, Daria Mushtaev, Steven Philipoff, Terence Triantafillidis and Captain Anya Jackovich were Team B’s winning members. The other three teams finished in a near dead heat for the runner up […]

Student Poets Published

Creative Communication from Logan UT has announced that 10 students from St. John’s have had their poems accepted for publication in the Spring 2008 poetry anthology. Since 1993 Creative Communication has sponsored writing contests for students across the United States and Canada.
The students and their poems are as follows:

Elizabeth Bozhich: “Spring”
Anya Jackovich: “Spring”
Paulie Jajeh: “Happy”
Christian […]

Marine Sanctuaries Presentation

On April 17, 2008, an Educational Specialist from the National Marine Sanctuaries gave a presentation with hands-on activities to the elementary school students of St. John of SF Orthodox Academy. The name of the program is Webs Under Waves, and targets student in grades third through fifth. The program aims to increase awareness of the […]

Chess Club

The Chess Club was started at the beginning of Great Lent and include participants from Kindergarten through 5th grade. The club meets every day except Tuesdays from 2:30 - 3:15 p.m. Supervised by Mrs. Triantafillidis and Mr. Winslow, the competitors play three intense rounds in best-of-three tournaments.
So far, the leader in the tournaments is Maria […]