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Posted by Mudithe de Silva No Comments on Newsletter September 2024. News
Newsletter September 2024.
Newsletter September 2024. On September 2, the students and staff returned after a month’s vacation. 3 new deaf children arrived from the Galle District. Miss Gayathri had a baby girl on September 5. Everything is going well with mother and child. We will visit her soon. A new matron, Damayanthi, started on September 10. She[…]
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Posted by Mudithe de Silva No Comments on Newsletter July 2024. News
Newsletter July 2024.
Newsletter July 2024. The month of July started with late monsoon rains, which again caused a lot of flooding in various places in Sri Lanka. Our school garden was also flooded and the drains overflowed. The rain caused many mosquitoes that can cause dengue fever. Dengue-fever mosquito Ms. Gayathri of the youngest group, received her[…]
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Newsletter June 2024
Newsletter June 2024 The month of June started with a big storm, rain and thunder. It seems the monsoon rainy season has been disrupted, just like the weather around the world. In many provinces, schools were closed all week due to flooding and landslides. In our Deaf School the students are boarders, so we could[…]
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Posted by Mudithe de Silva No Comments on Newsletter May, 2024. News
Newsletter May, 2024.
Newsletter May, 2024. On the first day of May, we had many Dutch visitors at our Deaf school. The Van Tuijl family, old acquaintances from Opijnen, came with 6 family members to spend a day at the school. They have meant a lot to our Deaf school. It was a very special and pleasant day[…]
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Newsletter March/April 2024
Newsletter March/April 2024 There has been a heat wave in Sri Lanka since the end of February until now. The government advised not to let children play outside during the hottest hours of the day, due to sunstroke and drink plenty of water. Even at night it was 28 degrees C. From March 12 to[…]
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Krantenartikel interview Tineke de Silva met de journalist van Tubantia
Krantenartikel interview Tineke de Silva met de journalist van Tubantia
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Posted by Mudithe de Silva No Comments on Celebration of Principal’s Birthday and spontaneous reunion of former students, March 5, 2024. News
Celebration of Principal’s Birthday and spontaneous reunion of former students, March 5, 2024.
Celebration of Principal’s Birthday and spontaneous reunion of former students, March 5, 2024. Preparations for this birthday party started weeks in advance. The students and staff had all kinds of secrets. Messages came from former students who wanted to come this day, because the Deaf School was also celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.[…]
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Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Dr. Reijntjes Deaf School
Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Dr. Reijntjes Deaf School February 2, 2024. Background: It has now been 40 years since Tineke de Silva-Nijkamp from Enschede started the Dr. Reijntjes School for the Deaf in Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Tineke was a teacher at a School for Hearing Impaired Children in Enschede in 1973, when she met[…]
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Annual report 2023.
Annual Report 2023. The new school year started on January 3, 2023. The school consisted of 40 deaf students: 21 boys and 19 girls. Furthermore, 10 staff members, an accountant and a gardener. The “Smart Board” served well in all school subjects, general knowledge and especially in speech therapy lessons. In January, Marion and Thomas[…]
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