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Posted by Mudithe No Comments on Celebration of the International Children’s Day on October 1st, 2019 News
Celebration of the International Children’s Day on October 1st, 2019
It was a nice sunny day so that we could organize most of the games and rituals in the school garden. The deaf pupils started with giving beetle leaves to the staff members. After that the different games started, interrupted by an interval to drink a milk tea with cake and banana. The Dutch game[...]
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Newsletter September 2019
The Month of September started with the cleaning of the school garden by the parents, children and staff members. This is compulsory for all the schools as there still is a dengue fever epidemic in Sri Lanka. The school started with the program on September 2nd for the last trimester of this school year. Manori,[...]
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Newsletter August 2019
We organized a nice Meeting for the parents on the first day of this month. After a drink with short eats the parents took their children home for the August holidays. The family Golbach from Denekamp came with their 4 children for a holiday to Sri Lanka. The last days they stayed in our Deaf[...]
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Newsletter July, 2019
On July 3rd the Dutch Ambassador, H.E. Mrs. Joanne Doornewaard, visited our Deaf School to say Good Bye, as she is leaving to Seoul in Korea. She was 4 years in Sri Lanka and was the Patron of the Dr. Reijntjes School for the Deaf. By her farewell she donated a Printer to the School.[...]
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Posted by Mudithe No Comments on Farewell of Mrs. Joanne Doornewaard on 3-07-2019 News
Farewell of Mrs. Joanne Doornewaard on 3-07-2019
H.E. Mrs. Joanne Doornewaard, other invitees, Staff and children. It was in 2015 that my husband and I met Mrs. Doornewaard for the first time in her office in Colombo. There was at once that click to say that we could work together. During that first visit we asked her if she wanted to be[...]
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Posted by Mudithe No Comments on Newsletter June 2019 News
Newsletter June 2019
This month started with the celebration of birthdays of 2 teachers and several pupils. The play ground is now complete after the new climbing rack was brought. The children are very happy to play there and children of all ages make nice figures in the sand, even of Adams Peak. On June 12 everybody was[...]
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Posted by Mudithe No Comments on Newsletter May 2019 News
Newsletter May 2019
The month of May started very frustrating. Because of the brutal terrorist attacks on Easter Sunday on 3 Christian Churches and 4 Hotels in Sri Lanka, whereby 250 people died and 500 got wounded, the whole country suffered. Suddenly there were curfews, shops were closed, no transport possible etc. The Government announced that the school[...]
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Posted by Mudithe No Comments on Newsletter April 2019. News
Newsletter April 2019.
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[...]
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Posted by Mudithe No Comments on Newsletter March 2019 News
Newsletter March 2019
On 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[...]
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Annual Report 2018 of the Dr. Reijntjes School for the Deaf in Sri Lanka
The 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[…]
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