News Archive

💙 Wear Blue on October 22! 💙 Join us in celebrating the gift of Catholic education! We invite our school community to pray for our schools, share what Catholic education means to your family, and wear blue on Thursday, October 22. 💙🙏 Follow @ctrcatholic and our social media throughout the week as we celebrate faith, learning, and the incredible gift of Catholic education in action! #IBelieveinCatholicEd #CTRCatholic

There’s something special about playing on your home court for the first time! 🏐 Our Junior C teams hosted their first home games, marking an exciting chapter in their season. Both teams represented our school with pride, showing teamwork, determination, and plenty of heart. For the Junior C Girls side, the night ended with another milestone: their first home win! Congratulations on this exciting accomplishment and to both Junior C teams on a home debut to be proud of. Go Storm! 🌩️

Join us for the 9am Mass at St. James Parish this Sunday to celebrate Catholic Education! I rejoiced with those who said to me, Let us go to the house of the Lord. -Psalm 122:1 #ibelieveincatholiced #ctrcatholic

🎃👻 Get ready for our Halloween Dance on October 28th! 🍕🌭 Our canteen menu is now available on Healthy Hunger, featuring hot dogs, pizza, chips, chocolate bars, freezies, ice cream sandwiches, drinks, and more! 🍫🧃 🗓️ Order deadline: October 23rd! Don’t forget to place your order! 🧡

🎶 Get ready for our St. Francis Family Dance! Join us on October 28th in our school gym for an evening of music, dancing, and fun with @CaperDJ Come dressed in your favourite school-appropriate costume and bring the whole family! 🎟️ Admission: $10 per family. Watch for a SchoolCash Online notice to pay in advance, or pay at the door. 🍭 School Council will also be running a canteen! Reminder: children must be accompanied by an adult. This is a family event & We can’t wait to see our St. Francis families on the dance floor! 🧡

Join us this Sunday, October 18th, at 9 AM at St. James Parish as we come together in prayer for Catholic education! ❤️✝️ We are blessed to be part of a community where faith and learning go hand in hand. #ibelieveincatholiced

We are so proud of our athletes! GO STORM GO ♥️🌪️

🧥 Jacket Racket is back! In partnership with our Christ the Redeemer Catholic local Sister Schools and St. Vincent De Paul Society, our school community is collecting clean, gently used winter clothing until October 30. Please drop off your donations in the front atrium boxes across from the front office! A big thank you to the Ward family for their very generous donation, and to their grandmother for knitting the beautiful hats and scarves! 🧣❤️ As we focus on the Catholic social teaching of the common good this month, this is one way we can care for our neighbours and help keep everyone warm as we head into winter. ❄️

We are thankful for so many things, but today we are especially thankful for our students! Happy Thanksgiving STFA!! ♥️

Thank you, God, for giving us so much to be thankful for. ♥️

🌾 Our Thanksgiving liturgy celebrated a cornucopia of gratitude, with gifts representing the fruits of the Spirit, candles, flowers, leaves, and a Bible. Through the Catholic social teaching of the common good, we were reminded to share our blessings and care for one another. 🤎 Thank you to our faith lead, Miss Behm, and the Grade 2 Romaniuk and Behm student leaders for reading and leading today’s liturgy! 🙏

🍂🧡 Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at STFA! 🧡🍂 We are so grateful for our wonderful school community and all the blessings we share together. Wishing our students, families, and staff a joyful Thanksgiving filled with good food, rest, and time with those we love. 🥧🦃🍁 A reminder that STFA will be closed Monday, October 12 for Thanksgiving and Tuesday, October 13 for a Teacher Professional Development Day. We look forward to welcoming everyone back on Wednesday, October 14!♥️

Happy Thanksgiving weekend! How cute are the turkey crafts that our kindergarten students made?! 🦃♥️

A little water, a little sunshine, and a whole lot of discovery! ☀️💧 Our Grade 3 scientists are exploring evaporation, condensation, and precipitation with their water cycle bags & watching science happen right before their eyes! 🔍☁️🌧️

It’s the eye of the STORM! 🌪️👟 Our youngest runners in Grades 1–6 took the cross country course by storm today! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️💨 Their dedication at lunch hour practices shone through on the course. We could not be more proud of all of our racers effort, determination and team spirit! ❤️ Thank you to Good Shepherd School for hosting another great race @goodshepherd.ctr and to Coaches Benassi, Olynyk & Hastings for cheering our athletes on during run club & cross country races! 📣 A special shout-out to our Grade 6 racers who raced DOUBLE today: at Zones & made it to their final @ctrcatholic Elementary race! ✌️🔥 Twice the races, twice the STORM pride! The future forecast for cross country at St. Francis? Fast feet, flying dust and a fierce STORM on the rise! 🌦️🌪️👟

🌩️ The forecast was right… STORM was FIERCE! 🌪️👟 Our Grade 6–9 runners were FAST and kicked up DUST at the 2026 South Central Cross Country Zone Championships! ⚡️💨 We’re so proud of every athlete who gave it their all today & how this XC team has improved in their training all season long! Congratulations to Grade 8 Lauren McDonald her 1st place race for bringing home a cross country banner for XC TEAM STORM! 🏆🌪️ & Grade 9 Archer Sziva with a 5th place finish! 👏 A huge thank you to our amazing coaches and loudest cheerleaders: Coaches Sziva, Olynyk, & Hastings! 📣🙌 These runners represented the STORM with pride! 🌪️ We can’t wait for these runners to lace up in the spring for Track + Field Season & see what this group of athletes can achieve next season! 🏁👟

Our Jr. A Girls Volleyball team has had an incredible start to the year. We are SO proud of our incredibly hardworking athletes! GO STORM GO🌪️♥️

Our first school bake sale of the year will take place tomorrow, October 7th! All items are on sale for $1!

GO STORM GO🌪️

Monday Night Football, STORM style! 🏈🌪️ Our STFA Grade 7/8 Flag Football Team brought the hustle, heart, and team spirit this season! ❤️🔥 Huge thanks to Mr. Potter & Mr. Annicchiarico for an amazing season of coaching flag football. The future is bright for this crew & we can’t wait to see these student-athletes next play! 🙌