Principal's Message - Mr. Lawrence Biegler

Welcome to the Michael A. Riffel High School’s website.  Riffel is a Catholic, student-centered school which focuses on developing respectful, responsible, and knowledgeable citizens firmly grounded in the values of our Christian faith.

As a Catholic High School, we provide a setting that is firmly grounded in our Catholic faith.  Liturgies, celebrations and community service are some of the components students must be involved with in order to maintain their path to graduation for our Christian Ethics courses at each grade level.

Academically, Riffel High School offers a number of exceptional programs – everything from Advanced Placement where students can obtain University credit at the grade 12 level for a number of course;  a well rounded fine arts program;  a student services team that will ensure success of our students; and a number of various courses that students will find rewarding on their way to graduation.  In addition, these fine academic programs are taught by our professional, dedicated teaching staff.

Along with a strong, rich tradition of high academic excellence, Riffel High School provides students with an outstanding extra-curricular program where countless City and Provincial Championships have been obtained via our Athletics and Fine Arts programs. 

We have a dynamic and energetic SRC (Student Representative Council) and a highly involved CSCC (Catholic School Community Council).  Both of these groups help to create an atmosphere where students can enjoy Riffel High School.  We challenge our students to carry out our school motto  - ““Uphold The Cross Capture The Crown”

Enjoy the website!

Vice Principal's Message - Ms. Kelley Ehman

Welcome to Michael A. Riffel High School! We are a faith-based educational institute that strives to nurture the mind, body and spirit of each one of our students. The double R’s of our school logo represent not only our school nickname – Riffel Royals, but also the two values we try and instill -  respect and responsibility.  We work with students to demonstrate and model respect for their fellow-students and teachers, respect for their community, and respect for themselves. We also work with students to develop the value of responsibility. We feel that if students learn the skills of problem-solving, effective communication, conflict resolution, goal-setting, time-management, and self-discipline, they will be well on their way to being effective leaders in their school and community and achieve the academic success that required for post secondary opportunities. Our practices and policies outlined in the student handbook and available on this website, support the goals we have for our school and our students. If you have any questions about our programs or practices, please contact me at the school office – 791-7260.
God Bless!

Greetings from the Chaplain’s office.

The theme for our 2009/2010 school year is “A Reason to Celebrate and we will be initiating many new things to try and bring this message to our Riffel community. We have a new and very enthusiastic liturgical group. They have started with presenting our morning and afternoon prayer over the intercom and will be busy decorating our school with liturgical art. On September 15 in period 3 we will be celebrating mass in the gym with the entire school community. Fr. Brad will be our celebrant and will be assisted by Fr. Louie Kim. Riffel high school considers the opportunity for students to celebrate mass and liturgies of the word to be very important for Catholic spiritual development and so we will be celebrating either a mass or a liturgy of the word every month.

As we have done for the last few years our gr. 11 and 12 students will be the retreat leaders for our grade 9s and the theme will be the . The Gr. 10 and 11 retreats were very successful last year and we will continue with the same format for this year. They will be going to the Regina Food Bank and their day will consist of spending half of it with Michael Paul who will lead a spiritual retreat based on the theme of service and half working at the Food Bank sorting food. This way the theme of the retreat will be put into action right away. An added benefit will be that students can claim two hours of Christian service work towards their ten hours required by their class assignment. The Gr. 12 retreats will take place at St. Michael’s Retreat House in Lumsden, lead by Ms. Jenny Banga.

We have many exciting things planned to help foster the spiritual development of all our Riffel students. I look forward to a school year where students and staff will truly make

“Jesus their Hope”

Thank you

Patrick Roth