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Cymbeline

stjohnsacademysf.org — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:50:09 +0400

On June 4th, the students in grades 6-12 performed Shakespeare’s Cymbeline to an appreciative audience of parents, teachers, and students. Using a creative mixture of recorded and live music to supplement the student actors, Director Seraphim Winslow produced a humorous and lively play that kept the crowd cheering throughout the evening. Cymbeline, the “Chinese dragon [...]

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Field Day, 2009

stjohnsacademysf.org — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:17:55 +0400

On May 29th, the entire school celebrated the coming close of the school year with a Field Day in Golden Gate Park. The three houses of Alexandria, Constantinople, and Jerusalem competed against each other in such activities as a three-legged race, egg-cup race, passing the egg with no hands, kickball, and tug-of-war. The winning house [...]

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Literary Evening

stjohnsacademysf.org — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:54:46 +0400

On May 28, students in grades 7-11 participated in Mrs. Maximova’s annual Literary Evening. They dressed up as one of the characters in the books they have read this year and had a dinner and played literary games. Students came in the costume of characters from works of such authors as Homer, Shakespeare, Dickens, Irving, [...]

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Photography Excursion

stjohnsacademysf.org — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:42:56 +0400

On May 27th, the 8th grade Photography class took an excursion to Sutro Bass, Pescadaro, and San Gregario Beach to find new and unusual opportunities for photography. Mrs. Novak helped the students take photos of natural subjects and gave them the opportunity to participate in some physical activity at the same time. See the photo album [...]

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European Trip Banquet

stjohnsacademysf.org — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:19:34 +0400

On May 19th, the students from grades 8-10 who went on the trip to England and France gathered together with parents and friends at the Russian-American Community Services (RACS) Center for a fund-raising banquet. The dinner was provided by RACS, and the students each gave a short illustrated talk about the group’s adventures. Afterwards there [...]

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Accreditation — it’s official!

stjohnsacademysf.org — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:37:50 +0400

On May 27, 2009, St. John’s received official notification by the Accrediting Commission of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). The letter, addressed to Archbishop Kyrill, announced the granting to “St. John of San Francisco Orthodox Academy a six-year term of accreditation, expiring on June 30, 2015. Members of the Commission studied the [...]

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Mother’s Day Brunch

stjohnsacademysf.org — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:35:19 +0400

On May 10th, the St. John’s Boosters, led by Carol Jajeh, organized a Mother’s Day Brunch at Holy Virgin Cathedral. Everyone who attended was overwhelmed by the quality and quantity of delicious food, the decor and atmosphere of the hall, and the great idea of celebrating mothers together right after liturgy. There was a wonderful [...]

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European Trip, 2009

stjohnsacademysf.org — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:31:19 +0400

Eleven students and four adults (two teachers and two parents) will be departing from the San Francisco airport on April 21, 2009 for London. The group will leave London by Eurostar for Paris on April 24th, and will return to San Francisco on April 29th. We will describe our experiences daily, or as often as [...]

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Februrary School Performances

stjohnsacademysf.org — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:41:41 +0400

On February 26 and 27, 2009, two performances were given to the entire school. The first of these was the grades K-5 presentation of the musical version of The Little Prince, with 5th graders Anthony Maximov in the title role and Anthony Glek as the king, and other 4th and 5th graders playing most of [...]

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St. John’s Welcomes New Patriarch

stjohnsacademysf.org — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:17:37 +0300

St. John’s students rang the bells at Holy Virgin Cathedral on January 27, 2009, upon the election of Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad as the 16th Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. Kyrill I assumes the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church at a significant time in its history. His predecessor, Alexy II, presided over [...]

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Student Gymnastic Champion

stjohnsacademysf.org — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:11:28 +0300

Nino Sharabidze, a 1st grade student at St. John’s, won medals in three events at the 2009 LA Lights International Rhythmic Gymnastics Tournament last weekend. Competing in the Level 4 Child’s section, she tied for 12th place in the Floor competition, earned 2nd place in the Hoop competition, and tied for 3rd place in the [...]

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Thank you from Raphael House

stjohnsacademysf.org — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:56:25 +0300

The following letter, addressed to St. John of SF Orthodox Academy, was recently received: I would like to thank you for your participation in the 2008 Raphael House Adopt-a-Family program. A record number of 278 families and 793 children were adopted for Christmas, and your participation was instrumental in making this possible. We at Raphael House [...]

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Trip to Monastery

stjohnsacademysf.org — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:43:17 +0300

St. John’s students in grades 8-12 made a trip to the Monastery of St. John of San Francisco in Manton, CA from November 19-21. They attended morning and evening services, and had a meeting with Fr. Meletios, the abbot of the monastery. Fr. Meletios described the life of a monk and the daily routine of [...]

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Piano Benefit Concert

stjohnsacademysf.org — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:27:44 +0300

On October 24, 2008, St. John’s sponsored a benefit concert of Russian piano music at the Russian Center of San Francisco. The program included works by Balakirev, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Shostakovitch, Rachmaninoff, and Tchaikovsky. The pianist was Daniel Jepson, who comes from England, where he began his musical training at the age of four. Following graduation from [...]

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15th Anniversary Banquet

stjohnsacademysf.org — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:06:41 +0400

October 12th is the day that St. John’s Academy honors St. John of San Francisco, for it was on this day in 1993 that his relics were discovered to be incorrupt. The year of his canonization, 1994, was the year the Academy was founded. This year marked the Academy’s 15th year and was celebrated with [...]

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Two Icons Bless New School Year

stjohnsacademysf.org — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:29:41 +0400

The first days of the 2008 school year were blessed by the presence of two miracle-working icons of the Mother of God. On September 2, 2008, the Kursk Root icon arrived at the Holy Virgin Cathedral in San Francisco where the Academy is located, and the opening moleben for the school year was served in [...]

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Letter from Metropolitan Hilarion

stjohnsacademysf.org — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:34:48 +0400

June 5th, 2008 The Very Reverend Protopriest Serge Kotar and the Students and Teachers of St. John of San Francisco Orthodox Academy Dear Father Serge, Beloved in Christ Students and Teachers of the Academy, Please accept my heartfelt greetings wit the holy Feast of our Saviour’s Ascension. Thank you so much for your kind words of greeting and congratulations on the [...]

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Annual Literary Dinner

stjohnsacademysf.org — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:22:17 +0400

On Thursday, May 15, students in grades 7-11 participated in a Literary Dinner at Mrs Maximova’s home, which was decorated with a Midsummer Night’s Dream theme. Students came dressed as one of their favorite literary characters. During dinner, students presented their character, and afterwards students played literary games.

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Graduation 2008

stjohnsacademysf.org — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:30:35 +0400

St. John’s senior graduation ceremony was held on Thursday night, May 29. There were well over 100 people in attendance to honor the two graduates, Artur Gazaryan and Mikhail Yakovlev. Archbishop Kyrill of San Francisco and Western America, the school’s Headmaster, spoke briefly about education and the Christian life, comparing them to a marathon race [...]

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Delegation From Ekaterinburg Visits St. John’s Academy

stjohnsacademysf.org — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:00:10 +0400

On Friday, April 4, a five-person delegation from Yekaterinburg, under the auspices of the US Dept. of State�s International Visitor Leadership Program, visited St. John of San Francisco Orthodox Academy. Two priests and three officials from the Ministry of Education and various city educational departments were part of the Civic and Ethical Values in Schools [...]

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Team ‘B’ Knows!

stjohnsacademysf.org — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:29:41 +0400

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 [...]

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Student Poets Published

stjohnsacademysf.org — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:14:29 +0400

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 [...]

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Marine Sanctuaries Presentation

stjohnsacademysf.org — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:57:32 +0400

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 [...]

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Chess Club

stjohnsacademysf.org — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:05:05 +0400

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 [...]

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Metropolitan Laurus reposes

stjohnsacademysf.org — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:08:01 +0300

On March 9, the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy, our beloved Metropolitan Laurus reposed peacefully in the Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, New York.

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