Swink School District -

Become a Teacher in the Arkansas Valley!!
Come join us at Otero College on Tuesday, November 18, from 5pm-7pm.
See the attached flier for additional information and the registration link.

Come out and support the Lady Lions in Regional Volleyball.
Wear you Maroon for Swink Pride!!

Artist of the Week-Swink High School student Rylie holds her Star Wars Trilogy Drawing dressed as Princess Leia. Congratulations on Epic work!

Swink Lady Lions will be hosting Regional Volleyball on Saturday with Del Norte and Heritage Christian.
The first game will start at 10:00 am.
Everyone must pay as the only passes that are accepted are CHSAA passes.
Students/Senior Citizens Admission is $9.00.
Adults General Admission is $12.00.
The gate prices are set by CSHAA.

Congratulations to Swink Lion Madalyn T for being selected for the 2025 3A All-State Softball Team. Madalyn plays for the La Junta team and received Honorable Mention. Way to go Madalyn.

Congratulations to Swink's very own Rio on her great success in cross country this year. Rio runs for the Rocky Ford team and cut 24 seconds off her state time from last year's race. She finished 15th out of 132 runners. Way to go Rio!!!

Lions Life for the Week of November 3.
Stay tuned for the Regional Volleyball Announcement.
Tuesday is Election Day--ensure to get out and vote if you have not sent in your ballot.
#SwinkLions #GoLions

Thank you to Nurse Stacy for the awesome bulletin board on social media reminders.

Congrats to our 8th grade boys basketball team for winning in overtime tonight after Brody hit free-throws. All Lions are proud of you. Stay tuned to the Swink Lions app and webpage for continued updates of Swink Lions events and news.

Elementary Art has been doing drawings for Halloween the past couple of weeks. Congratulations to each grade level winner. Thank you to Mrs. Bickel for the amazing work you do with our students and their creativity.

Rylee worked with Adrian Hart and SECO news to cover the Swink Halloween parade.

The Kindergartners present their festive play entitled: "The Little Old Lady Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything Show." They were all dressed up at scarecrows.

It is Childhood Grief Awareness month. The link below is to an online grief workshop for caregivers.

https://judishouse.org/workshop-registration/?bbeml=tp-4hwScy2zQE-tQCG4aJK_7Q.jWkN85r8GMEqDcV_J37XFcA.r4wy9C1u9hEOuElO_FQz96w.l0bufXpWdy0qmusxYzc6bOw

Be sure to come out and support our JH Boys Basketball team as they open their season at home on Thursday, October 30, at 4:00 in the Old Gym against Las Animas.

Lions Life for the Week of October 27, 2025.
#SwinkLions #GoLions

Swink's Flu Shot Clinic will be on Thursday from 4pm to 6pm.

Lions Life for the Week of October 20.

Swink School’s Operation Smile Chapter was started in 2006 by Chris Casper, the school nurse at the time. Each year, money is raised to help pay for cleft palate and cleft lip surgeries in 3rd world countries. One surgery costs approximately $250. This year is our 16th Annual K-12 Miles for Smiles Walk-a-thon! The walk-a-thon will be on Thursday, October 23, from 3:30-4:00 pm.

Elementary students will bring home collection envelopes on 10/16/25. They are encouraged to collect donations and return their envelopes on 10/23/25. The Walk-a-thon will be held from 3:30-4:00 on the track on 10/23/25. Students will be walking to celebrate the money collected for Operation Smile.

Donations can also be dropped off in the school office. Please make all checks payable to Operation Smile.

Artist of the week, Rylee Conty, designs a page for homecoming in the yearbook. This is Rylee's first year in Digital Art and he is full of awesome ideas.

Lions Life for the Week of October 13, 2025.
Another busy week ahead for the Lion Family.
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