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Newsletter March 2022.
Newsletter March 2022. In the first week of March we celebrated the birthday of our Founder/Principal Tineke de Silva. It was a day full of surprises. The deaf students had secretly been busy for weeks making beautiful works of art, which were presented after all the rituals and the cutting of the cake. The bouncy[…]
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Newsletter February 2022.
Newsletter February 2022. On February 2, we celebrated the 38th anniversary of the Dr. Reijntjes School for the Deaf. We watched old school movies, had a tea treat and an ice cream dessert after lunch. One of the students (Ekmi) had painted the school building on linen and she offered it to the Principal (Tineke[…]
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Newsletter January 2022.
Newsletter January 2022. The New Year was ushered in Sri Lanka with even more fireworks than other years! People were relieved because the number of corona infections had been reduced to 365 cases a day. The staff members came back in the last week of December after a short vacation to prepare everything[…]
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Newsletter November and December 2021 with Christmas greetings.
Newsletter November and December 2021 with Christmas greetings. In the month of November we worked hard in our Deaf School. We noticed from the students that they really enjoyed being back in full action. Except for the dance lessons, all other lessons went on as usual. Luckily none of the kids talked about going home[…]
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Newsletter October 2021
Newsletter October 2021 We have good news: the lockdown is over and on Monday 25 October the deaf students came back to school! They are happy in the classroom again and enjoy learning and interacting with their school friends. They have been very lonely during the lockdown period at home. The youngest have grown a[…]
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Drawing Contest October 1st, 2021.
Drawing Contest October 1st, 2021. Ekmi and Shenali, two of our deaf pupils, received the first and second prize with a drawing contest, organized by the Rotaract Club of Colombo, for the International Children’s Day 2021. We are very proud and happy with the results! Ekmi Kaveesha Shenali Sathsarani
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Newsletter September 2021.
Newsletter September 2021. This whole month there was a lockdown in the country and the schools could not reopen. There were still 4000 corona cases per day and 220 corona deaths at the beginning of September. We heard that one of the mothers, one of our deaf children and a teacher also got corona.[…]
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Newsletter July/August 2021
Newsletter July/August 2021 On April 28th. All schools in Sri Lanka suddenly closed due to the high infection rates of Covid-19. The corona situation in Sri Lanka is still a cause for concern. Fortunately, 14 million Sri Lankans have already had their first corona jab and 4 million both injections. But the hospitals and quarantine[…]
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Newsletter May/June 2021.
Newsletter May/June 2021. Unfortunately, all schools in Sri Lanka were still closed in May and June. It is not yet known when they will reopen. Fortunately, the number of infected cases of Covid-19 has decreased drastically. At the end of June, however, this was still an average of 1500 infections and 50 deaths per day.[…]
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