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The deaf pupils prepared the special delicacies for New Year in the Cookery Class on April first. These short eats were served during the New Year’s Games with the pupils on April 2nd. in the school garden. It was a beautiful morning and the children had a lot of fun. The climax was like every[...]
Read MoreOn march 5th we celebrated the birthday of our Founder/Principal Tineke de Silva. It was a day full of surprises! Secretly the staff had invited 30 past pupils of the School, as it was the 35th Anniversary of the Deaf School! After lighting the oil lamp and cutting the cake, everybody went outside to see[...]
Read MoreThe new school year started on January 2nd. 2018. We got some new deaf children. With parents, children and staff members we organized a big cleaning up activity (shramadana) in the school premises. This is compulsory (Government) to eradicate the dengue mosquito. On Jan. 8 sponsors from Netherlands (family van Tuijl) visited the school one[…]
Read MoreIt was a day full of surprises! Tineke was only allowed to come in the school building with her husband Susiri on her birthday at 10 a.m. Everything was beautiful decorated in the Auditorium. Not only the present deaf students and Staff waited for her, but also 30 past pupils of the Deaf School came[...]
Read MoreOn February 2nd it was exactly 35 years ago that the Dr. Reijntjes School for the Deaf started in Sri Lanka. We had a Trust Meeting and remembered nice events of the Deaf School. The Trust Members looked at the new Documentary film of the School and had a nice Lunch together. Mrs. Ine Lems[...]
Read MoreCelebration of the 35th Anniversary of the Dr. Reijntjes School for the Deaf in Moratuwa on February 16th, 2019. The Dr. Reijntjes School for the Deaf started on February 2nd, 1984 in Moratuwa. The Founder is Mrs. Tineke de Silva-Nijkamp from the Netherlands. She visited Sri Lanka for the first time in 1974 with her[...]
Read MoreThe new school year started on January 1st 2019 with a Shramadana Clean Up in the school garden by the parents, deaf pupils and staff members. The deaf children were happy to be back after the holidays to see all their friends again. Mudithe de Silva, the son of Tineke and Susiri de Silva, started[...]
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