St. Nicholas Cathedral School

09/04/2026

THANK YOU, MR. BILL! ❤️🍕
A very special SNCS thank you to our friend Mr. Bill for once again treating our students to delicious pizza—this time during Back-to-School Night!
Our students loved lining up at the pizza truck and enjoying this special treat with their friends. Thank you, Mr. Bill, for your continued generosity and for helping make the evening even more memorable! 🍕😊💙💛

09/02/2026

🌻💙💛 THE COUNTDOWN IS ON — RODYNA FEST IS ALMOST HERE! 💙💛🌻

St. Nicholas Cathedral School (SNCS) is excited to join Rodyna Fest at St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral! Bring the whole family and be sure to stop by the Children’s Treasure Island inside the SNCS Playground for an afternoon of games, activities, and family fun! 🎉
SNCS Children's Treasure Island:
📅 Saturday, September 5
⏰ 12:00–6:00 PM
📍 2200 West Rice Street, Chicago

🎈 COME PLAY IN THE SNCS Children's Treasure Island🎈

We’ll have plenty to keep children of all ages smiling, including:

🥔 Potato Sack Races
🎯 Bean Bag Toss
🏖️ Granny Pants & Beach Ball Game
🏴‍☠️ Pirate Bingo
🎣 Magnetic Fishing Activities — perfect for our younger festival-goers!
🎲 Games & Hands-On Activities
🎨 Children’s Crafts
😊 Face Painting
🙏 Religious Crafts & Faith-Based Activities
📸 Fun Photo Opportunities
✨ And more surprises throughout the day!

And that’s just the beginning! Rodyna Fest will also feature:

🎶 Live Music
🇺🇦 Delicious Ukrainian Food
🎨 Master Classes
🔥 Campfire Sing-Along
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Activities for the whole family

Come celebrate Ukrainian culture, faith, family, and community with us! 🇺🇦❤️ Whether you’re an SNCS family, alumni, parishioner, neighbor, or friend, we would love to see you!

🌻 Don’t forget to find the SNCS Children’s Treasure Island — come play, laugh, and make some Rodyna Fest memories with us! 💙💛

08/25/2026

08/24/2026

🍎Teach Day at St. Nicholas Cathedral School📚

Amid the many events of last week, one tradition stood out as especially meaningful – Teach Day!🌟During this unique event, our oldest students traded places to become the instructors, taking our youngest school family members under their wing.🤝

Through engaging activities and hands-on mentoring, the senior students shared our core traditions, responsibilities, and school guidelines—the essential building blocks for a successful year ahead.🏫✏️

Teach Day was not just about learning the “dos and don’ts.” It was about building community, practicing leadership, and demonstrating that at SNCS, we learn from one another.💬❤️ Above all, it’s a wonderful reminder of what it means to SOAR at SNCS by staying Safe, On-Task, Accountable, and Respectful every single day.🦅✨

We are incredibly proud to watch our students blossom into compassionate leaders who genuinely guide, care for, and inspire those around them!🚀🏆

08/21/2026

A Special Thank You from SNCS! 💙

We are incredibly grateful to all of our parents and volunteers who gave their time, energy, and enthusiasm to support SNCS at the Ukrainian Village Festival. Your involvement helped us share the spirit of our school with the broader community and made our presence at the festival such a success.

Thank you to the Sts. Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Church Festival Committee and parish community for including SNCS and giving us the opportunity to showcase our school, connect with families, and share all that makes SNCS special.

We are especially grateful to our sponsors, supporters and organizers:
Selfreliance Federal Credit Union (SFCU) for generously sponsoring our Children’s Corner. Your continued support helped us create a fun, welcoming space where children and families could play, craft, and enjoy the festival together.
The StopAlong Pizza and Robert for the delicious treats — always a crowd favorite!
Procon - Darko for making our wonderful banners, which made sure everyone knew exactly where we were and who we were!

SNCS team of organizers and teachers — Dasha D., Svitlana D., Halyna H., Nataliia K., Nataliia M., Alicia R., and Lesya Y. Your leadership, creativity, hard work, and countless behind-the-scenes efforts brought everything together and made our SNCS space shine.

And to our talented students and alum Nonna P., Kira P., and Anastasia K., thank you for working your magic and creating so many happy, beautifully painted faces! 🎨

Finally, to everyone who volunteered, visited our booth, participated in our activities, sponsored us, stopped by to say hello, or simply cheered us on — THANK YOU!

It takes a community to make moments like these possible, and SNCS is incredibly fortunate to have all of you as part of ours. ❤️

08/20/2026

🎉📚 WELCOME BACK, SNCS! 📚🎉

The 2026–2027 school year is officially underway! 💙💛
Today, the halls of St. Nicholas Cathedral School were once again filled with smiling faces, excited reunions, new friendships, and the wonderful energy that comes with a brand-new school year! ✏️🍎

For generations, SNCS has been a place where students are known, loved, challenged, and encouraged to become the very best versions of themselves.
🙏 Rooted in faith
📚 Committed to academic excellence
❤️ United as one school family

To our students: Dream big, work hard, be kind, and make this year one to remember!
To our teachers and staff: Thank you for bringing your hearts, talents, and dedication to our students each and every day.
And to our families: Thank you for choosing SNCS and trusting us with your children. We are so grateful to begin another year together!

We also want to share that this morning’s Divine Liturgy was offered in loving memory of Sr. Irenea Hankewych, OSBM, former SNCS principal. May God grant her eternal rest and blessed repose.🕊️🕯️

✨ Here’s to an amazing 2026–2027 school year! ✨ Where Faith Leads, Futures Follow. 🙏➡️🌟

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08/19/2026

✨ Future Leaders in Action! ✨

Our 7th and 8th grade students recently had the incredible opportunity to participate in the Schreiber Catholic Future Leader Program at DePaul University!

Throughout the day, our students explored what it means to be leaders who build belonging by embracing their Catholic identity in their homes, school, and communities. Through meaningful discussions, storytelling, and creative sensory poetry, they reflected on what makes each of them unique while discovering the many qualities they share with others.

The experience concluded with students working collaboratively to design board games that encourage friendship, inclusion, and a true sense of belonging among people from all walks of life. To celebrate their hard work, every student earned a microcredential from DePaul University recognizing them as leaders who build belonging.

It was a day filled with learning, creativity, collaboration, and fun!

💙💛 Thank you Dr. Cinnamon and the entire team at the DePaul University College of Education – Office of Innovative Professional Learning for providing such a meaningful experience for our students. We are grateful for this partnership and look forward to many more opportunities to collaborate in the years ahead.

"Viam sapientiae monstrabo tibi."
"I will show you the way of wisdom." — Proverbs 4:11 & the motto of DePaul University

08/18/2026

2026–2027 Back-to-School Ice Cream Social at St. Nicholas Cathedral School! 🍦

Tomorrow, August 19, at 5:30 pm our SNCS community will come together with joy and excitement for one of our favorite traditions — our Annual Back-to-School Ice Cream Social!

We can’t wait to welcome our new students and families to SNCS and to greet our returning students and families as we begin another wonderful school year together. It will be an evening to reconnect with friends, meet new ones, share summertime stories, and celebrate the start of a new year.

We are especially grateful for our dedicated teachers and staff and are delighted to welcome a wonderful new member of our faculty, Ms. Amaya Wragge!

To our families, teachers, staff, donors, and friends of SNCS — thank you for being part of the strong and caring community that makes our school so special.

Here’s to a happy, healthy, and successful 2026–2027 school year, filled with learning, growth, friendship, and great academic achievements!

We can’t wait to see everyone tomorrow! 🍦📚