Nature and Boidiversity: -Dinosaur exhibition

The grade 4 children visited the dinosaur exhibition at Suncoast recently to remind them about the importance of preserving your heritage.

community and Heritage: Acting for Rhinos fundraising.

Our Acting for Rhinos campaign raised R33000 in 2015. Congratulations to all contributors and fundraisers and thank you to participating Schools and theatre companies.The funds will be used at Thula Thula for the raising of orphaned Rhino.os.

community and Heritage - Clothing Project

The Eden Prep collected old clothes for the Will and s Green Bag Clothes for Life Project. An impressive amount was collected and Bornwell from Wildands collected the Donations on Mon 16 November.Thanks to all for their generosity. The Grade 1 D class assisted with the loading of the bags.

Resources - Sun danger

The grade fours learnt about the dangers associated with the strength of the Suns heat when they burnt paper using magnifying glasses. Responsible protection was discussed.

Community and Heritage - Grade 6 visit to the blind society.

The grade 6 Bible Ed children raised R740 for the KZN blind society and had a tour of the children's centre and workshop.

Beautiful basket work done by Nomsa 

Community and heritage - Diwali Assembly

The Hindu children put on a wonderful Diwali show for the school on Friday. They told us the story of Diwali through music and dance.

Afterwards we were all treated to delicious breyani. Thank you to Aunty Rosh and her amazing band of helpers.

Nature and biodiversity - Dinosaur presentation

Today the pre-primary, Grade R's and Grade ones watched a very informative dinosaur presentation. They learn interesting facts like each of T-Rex's teeth were the size of a banana.  All meat eating meat eating dinosaurs walked on two legs and all plant eating dinosaurs walked on 4 legs.

Resources - recylcing

Our faithful teachers and monitors were in action again this morning collecting items for recycling. Mrs MacToal keeps accurate records of who brings what. At the end of the week the class who brings the most is rewarded. 
The monitors help the children to place their recycling into the correct bins.

Resources - Grade R rockets and butterflies.

The grade R children made these delightful butterflies and Rockets from recycled items this week.

Global and Local Issues - noticeboards

The display boards around the school are regularly updated with displays pertaining to global and local issues.

Global and local issues. -Grade 8 - Durban harbour excursion

As part of what they were learning in class the grade 8 pupils sailed around the harbour to see first hand what they had been learning about.

Wildlands Conservation Trust

Last Wednesday Bronwyn from the Wildlands  conservation trust visited us at out assembly. The aim of the trust is to uplift people in need. She showed us a video of a granny(gogo) who her organisation had helped. No money changes hands - it is run on bater system. Gogo grew trees and did some market gardening.She also collects bottles for recycling.  Bronwyn and her helpers organise for the granny to trade her plants, for things that her family need. 

Bronwyn challenged us to help others like the granny. She has asked us to collect clothing of all sizes. To start the bater system she gave us a Bush Willow tree from gogo. She will be returning on 16 November to collect, whichever class collects the most will be rewarded with a prize.

We encourage all to participate in this very worthy cause.

Community and heritage - Biblical times banquet

The Grade Six Bible Education children invited the whole grade to a special banquet such as that celebrated in Biblical times. They catered according to food that would possibly have been served back in the day. All were amazed at how tasty Mediterranean food can be. Invitations were made using toilet rolls as the cover for the ‘papyrus’ –type invitations, which were highly decorated using scraps of paper, ribbon and fabric.

Community and Heritage - Green Valentines day.

Instead of the regular red for Valentines day this year, Eden children dressed in green to show how much we love the Earth. We even featured in our local newspaper.

Community and Heritage - Beach clean up

Eden Prep was involved in a National Beach Clean up this year, pictured here at Ushaka Beach. This is the second clean-up, as the Eco Club also visited Addington Beach and environs to clean up the litter that was there.