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Health & Wellness Newsletters for March

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Life of a Lion for the Week of February 26, 2024.

Swink is looking for a junior high assistant track coach. Contact us for more details. 719-384-8103.

Can't make it to the basketball games at Fowler on Tuesday evening? Listen live to our very own Mr. Aaron on Thunder Media radio station or at https://www.lajuntaradio.com.

LIfe of a Lion for the Week of February 19, 2024

Swink Elementary students made and delivered Valentine's Day Cards to residents of the Rocky Ford and Ordway nursing homes.

NOMINATIONS DUE THURSDAY. Swink School District is calling for nominations for Teacher of the Year. The school district will be recognizing a teacher within our district and the winning teacher will have the opportunity to move on to the state level for the Colorado Teacher of the Year competition. Additionally, Swink School District will recognize classified staff members of the year. The classified staff will include our paraprofessionals, secretaries, maintenance/custodians, nurses, cooks, and bus drivers. Nominations may be made by students, parents, staff members and/or community members. A nomination should consist of a two to three paragraph statement as to why the teacher should be selected as Teacher of the Year or Classified Staff selected as the Classified Staff of the Year. Questions can be submitted to Mr. Lyder by email at larry.lyder@swink.12.co.us or 719-384-8103. All nominations must be submitted by February 15, 2024 by 4pm via the link below. https://forms.gle/9sutTioTfhpbLVqz6

Financial Aid Night

Have a question or concern and not sure who to go to? Please refer to the Chain of Communication Flow Chart that was board adopted. This will assist you in getting questions answered and resolving your concerns at the lowest level possible and if it is not answered or resolved then move up to the next level in the chain.

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Life of a Lion for the Week of February 12, 2024

Congratulations to Jennifer Gardner on her 3rd place finish at the Arkansas Valley Science Fair and she is now qualified for the Colorado State Science and Engineering Fair. Jennifer researched the Effects of the moon phase on the sex of the offspring of rabbits. She concluded that the moon phase does impact the sex of the offspring.

Best of luck to our basketball teams as they travel to Las Animas tonight. JV boys tipoff at 4:30pm followed by varsity girls and then the varsity boys.

Good luck to our Swink wrestlers and coaches today and tomorrow at regionals at Otero College.

Swink Drama Presents our 2024 K-12 musical The Ever After a Musical book by NATHAN HARTSWICK; music & lyrics by BILL FRANCOEUR Sat. & Sun. February 17 & 18, 3:00 pm Tickets - $5 To Reserve, call or text: Chelle Austin 719 - 469 - 3124 Or call Swink School 719 - 384 - 8103

Congratulations to the High School Knowledge Bowl Team on winning the 2A Regional Meet today at Eads and qualifying for state.

Life of a Lion for the week of February 5.

Good Luck to our Swink Lions today as the wrestlers go to Crowley County and our basketball teams travel to Fowler.

HS Basketball @ Fowler on Saturday, Feb 3rd has a time change. Games will start @ 1 pm with V girls followed by V boys. NO JV games.