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STA Serves Justice

Justice was served last Thursday as the STA Mock Trial team sat down at the Mandarin and indulged in a well-deserved lunch after concluding their final tournament of the year.
The STA Mock Trial team is made up of grade 12 and grade 11 law students, led by Mrs. Robertson. Given a fictitious case at the [...]



Good Job Guys!

Our very own Saint Thomas Aquinas Senior Boys Volleyball team qualified for and went to the OFSAA tournament! When asked about it head coach Mr. Szpakowski said “We started out slow, but by the end of the tournament we were playing really good volleyball. Our best game was against the 2nd best team in the [...]



STA Takes Part in the Santa Claus Parade!

By: Kate Brennan

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Beat Bullying

Bullying.
It’s a word that should stir up many emotions in teenagers: maybe fear, hatred, or a determination to do something about it.
Or maybe it doesn’t stir any emotions at all.
Bullying is a problem at STA, yet some students seem uninterested in the issue.  According to one student, there is a problem, but it is “often disregarded [...]



BOO! Halloween at STA!

There’s no Halloween scarier than the one celebrated at St Thomas Aquinas this year. Where studious math teachers are germaphobic game hosts, patient chaplains are prancing cows, and audible principals are giddy princesses. STA truly had it all at the Halloween assembly on Friday, October 30th.
STA students like grade 12 Alyssia agree, “It [Halloween assembly] [...]



Money is Funny? Nonsense!

On Monday October 19th 2009, the St. Thomas Aquinas student body had the privilege to be part of James Cunningham’s hilarious, entertaining yet very informing presentation called “Funny Money”. As students, we know the challenge of saving money, but how much do we really know? James Cunningham presents to his audience the importance of saving [...]



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Wondering what our school is up to? Or did you miss out on a school event?
Now you will be able to keep up with all the events going on in our school, whether it’d be sports or assemblies or special speakers! Our school now has a Twitter account; follow us at http://twitter.com/aquinasoakville. Just sure you [...]



The Unusual Suspects

“Where were you on the evening of October 6th?”
When someone breaks into the principal’s office at Golden Valley High, this becomes a very important question. The break-in leads to an investigation of four unlikely suspects. These four students are brought together when a vengeful principal becomes determined to get to the bottom of this crime.
That [...]



Typhoon Hits the Philippines, Tsunami Devastates Samoa, & Flood Shocks STA

The first meeting of STA’s Peace and Justice Club ended, quite literally with a bang on Friday, when students were evacuated at the sound of the fire alarm.  The club’s members sauntered out of the building expecting the evacuation to be only a precaution for yet another false alarm.  The alarm was not one of [...]



Demolition of STA!! :O

The tower portion of the school comes down in demolition glory. Check out a couple photos as destruction begins.