Tsakane Special School

Today we celebrated Neurodiversity Day at Tsakane Special School. It was a festival of colour, movement, sweetness and pure joy!

A huge thank you to our parents and donors for your support; to our staff who worked tirelessly to make Neurodiversity Day a reality and to our wonderful learners for participating in all the aspects of the day and truly showing us how beautifully diverse we all are 🤍🌈♾️🧠🍩🫧

🌱♾️🌈🧠🤍Tsakane Special School's Neurodiversity Day - Friday 15 May 🤍🧠 🌈 ♾️ 🌱

This is exactly what we are celebrating this week, thank you for the image, NeuroWild! 🤍🩵🌈🧠

Happy Mother's Day to everyone who is a mother, or fulfills the role of a mother to the children in their lives 🦋🩷🧡💛🩵🤍

🩵💛 Last week we celebrated World Down Syndrome Day 🩵💛

We did this by "Rocking our Socks" and participating in various activities which were Down Syndrome themed. The activities included a group Down Syndrome Quiz, Down Syndrome Bingo as well as Down Syndrome Word Search races. 💛🩵🧬🧦🎉📸🎲✏️📚

Tintswalo Hospital staff also joined us in "Rocking their Socks" and filling the hospital with colour!

The day was enjoyed by all who participated and we truly focused on celebrating diversity, inclusion and that we are more the same than we are different!🎉🤝🩵💛🧬🌍

Down Syndrome South Africa 🇿🇦

🩵💛World Down Syndrome Day 💛🩵

On Saturday 21 March, we celebrate World Down Syndrome Day. To celebrate this, we invite you to join us in "Rocking your Socks" on Friday 20 March 2026, to create awareness, acceptance and promote inclusion of people with Down Syndrome in society. 🩵💛🌍🧦 We are more the same, than we are different!🤝

Wear your funkiest, most colorful socks and let's start the conversation about acceptance and inclusion. 🧦🤝🎨Just because a pair of socks is different, doesn't mean that they can't be worn together, if we just change our attitude. 💭👋👍🤝 In the same way, let us celebrare that we are more the same than we are different! ✨️🎉

Why socks? Well, a pair of socks placed heel to heel looks like a pair of chromosomes. And, Down Syndrome the most common chromosomal condition 🧬💛🩵🧦

We look forward to "Rocking our Socks", together with you, where ever you might be on Friday, for our learners and all people with Down Syndrome 🎉🩵💛🧬🌍🧦🎨

The South African Disability Alliance in partnership with Down Syndrome South Africa, invites you to join our next webinar.

Join us for an informative and inspiring webinar where we will explore Down syndrome, challenge common misconceptions, and celebrate the achievements of persons with Down syndrome.

In this session, we will cover:
• Who We Are – Learn more about our organisation and the work we do to promote inclusion and support for persons with Down syndrome.
• What is Down Syndrome? – A simple and clear explanation of Down syndrome and what it means.
• Myths vs Facts – Addressing common misconceptions and sharing the real facts.
• Achievements and Possibilities – Discover what persons with Down syndrome can and do achieve in education, work, sports, and everyday life.
• Call to Action – How you can support inclusion, awareness, and opportunities for persons with Down syndrome.

Our speakers:
Elaine Passmoor – National Executive Director,
Down Syndrome SA
and
Megan le Roux - Self-advocate

WHEN: Friday, 20 March 2026
TIME: 10:00 – 11:00
WHERE: Teams link: https://bit.ly/4d5w3L4

Come and be part of a conversation that promotes understanding, inclusion, and positive change. LIKE & SHARE!!

Although this webinar is free, we would deeply appreciate any donations towards SADA’s sustainability.

Bank: Standard Bank
Account name: South African Disability Alliance
Account No: 422275891
Type: Current
Branch: 051 001
Reference: February Webinar

‼️ Vacancies ‼️

1️⃣ Departmental Substantive PL-1 Educator Post: CAT (Foundation Phase)

2️⃣ Departmental Substantive PL-1 Educator Post: Home Language Sepedi, First Additional Language English, Life Skills and Mathematics (Foundation Phase)

3️⃣ Departmental Substantive PL-1 Educator Post: Woodwork and Timber (Intersen Phase)

4️⃣ Departmental Substitute PL-1 Educator Post: Xitsonga Home Language (Intersen Phase)

5️⃣ Departmental Substitute PL-1 Educator Post: Sepedi Home Language (Intersen Phase)

Please note: only hand-delivered applications will be considered.

Thank you for sharing, Down Syndrome South Africa ! 💛🩵

🌍💙 You’re Invited! 💙🌍

Dear Members, Partners and Friends of DSSA,

Join us for our 3-Day World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD) Online Symposium:

✨ Together Against Loneliness – Inclusion Builds Belonging ✨

This World Down Syndrome Day, we are coming together to explore how inclusion, dignity, meaningful participation and equal opportunities help combat loneliness and build true belonging for persons with Down syndrome and other intellectual disabilities.

📅 17–19 March 2026
💻 Online via Zoom

Parents, self-advocates, healthcare professionals, teachers, employers and community members are all welcome!

🔗 Scan the QR code or click here to register:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/hJBMHF8ES1afFa9IX-Zocg

Let’s stand united — Together Against Loneliness. 💛🧦

Thank you to Autism Western Cape for freely sharing information to support our learners! 🤍🩵📚🤝

Autism Western Cape invites you to a Zoom meeting
Topic: Autism Western Cape Community Meeting
Date & Time: 24 March 2026, 18:00 (Harare/Pretoria)
Join: https://zoom.us/j/94321396459?pwd=4svVQPaXhi4MOmcLaEot29U3zJYQMD.1
Meeting ID: 943 2139 6459 | Passcode: 2cp50r

World Hearing Day - 3 March 2026 👂

The aim of World Hearing Day is to raise awareness about hearing loss, and to promote hearing care for alll 🦻👂🧏‍♂️

To celebrate this day, our Speech and Language Therapist talked to our teachers about how to optimally include learners with hearing loss in the classroom. Thank you! 💕✨️

We have included some of her tips below.... ✍️

On Friday 5 September we, together with the rest of South Africa, celebrated the National Council of and for Persons with Disabilities' Casual Day! 🎟️👕🩴🦽🦯👓🩼♾️

The theme for 2025 was "Beyond the Label" and this was truly embodied at Tsakane Special School on Friday! We celebrated inclusivity and and all our different abilities with jumping castles, water slides, water balloons, a photo booth, cake, ice-cream, a hot meal and a gift bag to take home containing treats, toothpaste, a toothbrush and for the girls sanitary pads as well. 💦🫧🎈🍰🍦🎁🪥🎉📸

Each and every learner had a fantastic time! 🎊🎈💦💙🤍🩵

This day would not have been possible without the following incredibly generous sponsors: Le Lux Travel, Bentrac Trading Enterprise and TSA Consulting. 💙🤝 Thank you for your phenomenal generosity towards our learners, and for seeing beyond any labels! 🎉🩼👓🧏🦯🦽🩵🤍💪

We would also like to thank Hoedspruit Christian School and Bougainvillea Country Store for assisting us with selling Casual Day stickers to the public and participating with us, as well as our parents and staff for making this day such a success for our learners. 🎟️🤍🩵🤝