In response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic affecting our world, all of the Greek-American Day and Afternoon School programs across the country were forced to suspend in school classes and transition to on-line instruction. The majority of our Parochial Day and Afternoon Greek School Programs have executed successful on-line learning tools in order to provide the most effective educational instructions to their students.
St. Demetrios Greek School and its library took part in a competition that was held by the Ministry of Education & Religious Affairs in Greece in cooperation with the Greek Department of the International Board of Books for Young people organization, where schools were being awarded for promoting Greek literature.
The Annual Staff-Development Seminar of the Direct Archdiocesan District will be held on Tuesday, November 8, 2011 (Election Day), at the High School of St. Demetrios Cathedral in Astoria.
The Direct Archdiocesan District Office of Education is pleased to announce that the Comprehensive Examination in Modern Greek will be administered on Wednesday, June 22, 9:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
NEW YORK – The Direct Archdiocesan District Office of Education is pleased to announce that the recent decision of the Board of Regents of the New York State Education Department to eliminate in 2010 the Regents Comprehensive Examinations in German, Hebrew, and Latin (Italian in 2011), in an effort to reduce its deficit, will not affect the development of the Comprehensive Examination in Modern Greek by the Archdiocesan District Office of Education. The Archdiocese will continue developing the Examination as it has done for many years.
This year’s Annual Staff-Development Seminar of the Direct Archdiocesan District will be held on Tuesday, November 2, 2010 (Election Day), at the St. Demetrios Cathedral High School in Astoria.
The Direct Archdiocesan District Office of Education of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America has recently published a Curriculum for Kindergarten for the teaching of Greek as a second language to children of this age group.
Direct Archdiocesan District Parochial Schools: Annual Spelling Bee Competition Finals 2018
The Archdiocesan Spelling Bee Finals for the students of the District’s Greek-American Day Schools were held on Thursday, January 10th, at the Headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese.
12 students participated this year: 6 finalists and 6 runner-ups. Demetra Chudley, a 7th grade student of The Cathedral School in Manhattan was the finalist. Gabriel Tramontana, a 7th grade student of A. Fantis Parochial School in Brooklyn was the runner-up. The winning word was “earthenware.”
Mr. John Atanas, assistant principal of the Greek American Institute in the Bronx, and Ms. Helen Karagiorgos, college advisor of St. Demetrios School of Astoria, pronounced the words.
Following are the names of all the contestants and their schools:
SCHOOL
FINALISTS
RUNNER-UPS
W. Spyropoulos Greek-American School, Flushing
Tatiana Markou
Arietta Xylas
St. Demetrios Greek-American School, Astoria
Sophia Kikis
Elena Fiorentinos
Greek-American Institute, Bronx
Taylor Medina
Emmanuel Perselis
Cathedral School, New York
Demetra Chudley
Apostolia Pritchard
A. Fantis Parochial School, Brooklyn
Lily Torre
Gabriel Tramontana
D.G.K. Parochial School of Holy Cross, Brooklyn
Matthew Feinsilver
Kosta Serlis
On behalf of His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios Geron of America, His Grace Bishop Apostolos of Medeia welcomed and gave a prayer to the students. Upon the completion of the competition, His Grace Bishop Apostolos presented each student with a “Certificate of Award” and thanked the parents and teachers for their hard work and support.
Mr. Nick Katsoris, Esq., President of the Loukoumi Foundation, on behalf of the Hellenic Times Scholarship Fund, which sponsors the Archdiocesan District Spelling Bee Competition, offered each participant a check of $100 and $250 to the finalist.
The Spelling Bee competitions are sponsored by The E.W. Scripps Company. They are open to boys and girls, in grades 5 through 8. In New York City competitions are sponsored by the newspaper DAILY NEWS.
The Office of Education of the Direct Archdiocesan District selects the words and coordinates the competitions among the New York City Parochial Greek-American Day Schools.
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