Welcome to Michael A. Riffel High School's Website. We are a school that works at helping students reach their full potential. Teachers work with students and parents to help our young people learn how to be successful students who know how to interact positively with other people.
Our school has two programs. We have a regular academic program. We also have a Functionally Integrated Alternate Education Program (FIAEP) classroom. This is a Special Needs classroom.
Riffel is an Advanced Placement school. This means we offer a number of classes at the Grade 12 level for which students can obtain university credit. The students write a College Board exam in May to achieve the grade necessary for the university credit. The mark they achieve in the class is independent of this exam mark. The students do receive an AP designation on their Saskatchewan Education transcript.
In addition to our many academic successes, we also have a strong extra-curricular program. We have won many city and provincial championships in athletics and in fine arts competitions. Our students are well rounded in terms of extra-curricular activities. Many students who participate in athletics are also likely to participate in the fine arts and
vice versa.
Being a Catholic high school, we promote involvement, both in the school and in the community. Our students can be found working on many charitable projects, whether it be food hampers at Christmas time or working at the Marian Centre. The students of Riffel are willing to give of their time to help those in need.
Riffel is a school with a multitude of opportunities for students, both curricularly and extra-curricularly.
Enjoy browsing our website!
Ms. Sharon Bender Principal
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!
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
Welcome to Michael A. Riffel High School's Website. We are a school that works at helping students reach their full potential. Teachers work with students and parents to help our young people learn how to be successful students who know how to interact positively with other people.
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. 
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.