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| Mrs van Elden welcomes our guests and explains about our Eco Container. |
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| Mrs Padt is the driving force behind this garden |
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| Looking at our perma-culture garden. |
Here is what some of our pupils wrote about what they learnt on the day.
As you all know we at Eden College had had an amazing
Eco conference.
We had many different people from different schools
that had come to listen and wanted to get involved.
The very first speaker was a lady from the
organization of “Eco-Schools”.
Her name is Charissa. She gave a wonderful speech on
how to get other schools involved.
She wanted to make other schools Eco-Schools.
A lot of the people that had attended learned many new
things.
Many schools are now going to participate in this
project.
She was very enthusiastic and gave a lot of
information for us to consider. You could see that she really cared and with
that, I think we should all support Eco-Schools. After all she is really doing
us a favour. She cares about the environment she, cares about our Earth, she
cares about our planet. I think we could
learn a thing or two from her.
We need to learn to take care of our planet, to make
it last, to make it a beautiful place and it’s not too late. We can all still
make a difference it not too late IF we put our minds to it. We can accomplish
anything and everything.
Lameez Adams. Grade 7
16
schools came to visit Eden for the Eco-Conference, on the 18 March. Mrs Mazzoni spoke about the Eco-Club. Mrs Mazzoni holds this club on Wednesdays for
anyone from grade 4 to 7. At Eco-Club, the children do activities such as:
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Working in the Worm Farm.
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Going down to the vegetable garden.
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Making posters to put around the school
The
children also do art activities. The table cloths at the conference where made
by the children. They also make bird feeders and go on outings such as the
annual beach clean-up. They also go to
places like the butterfly farms and to Botanic Gardens and so on. Mrs Mazzoni
also organizes to have “Tree Identification”. The children walk around with an
expert and identify the different types of trees. They run the worm farm and
help organize recycling.
At the Eco Conference that took place at Eden
College on the 18th March Mrs Maree talked about how she uses recycled things
for her art lessons. She is working on a wind farm project with the grade sevens.
She uses old fabric, recycled news paper and paper. Once in a while she asks
for old teddy bear for the orphanage and she provides them with new toothpaste,
tooth brushes and more. Last year she
asked for old slippers to make fish out of them. She sometimes shows the
younger children photos to copy on and she likes using scrap paper from the
classes instead or printing new paper for paper pallets.
Once the paper
pallets are used she sends it down for recycling.
Last year she
painted a picture of a jojo bin with the grade 7s, she then entered a
competition and Dorina Cherneva won 150 000 for the school. Eden used the
money for an eco container and it was named Dorina’s eco diner. Thank you.
Done by: Kwazi
Xulu
Here
at Eden Collage we are very against the Rhino crime issue. We try our best to contribute
to rhino organisations like Rhino KZN. We have started a campaign called ACTING
FOR RHINOS. We have collected an amount of R44 000 towards saving our
Rhinos .Here at our school on the 18 March we had an Eco-conference talking
about Water, Rhino’s and Eco-schools. What
really caught my interest is the Acting for Rhino’s project. a woman named
Micah for KZN talked to us about rhinos and how school can sign up to help Rhino projects.
16
schools came to visit Eden for our Eco Conference on the 18th of
March. We had many speakers who gave teachers and pupils different eco ideas. Mrs
Rayner, one of our former teachers at Eden, spoke about how it is a lot easier
and more environmentally friendly to eco blog eco-articles and stories that you
have written instead of having a big thick file. This is one of the ways that
we can save paper and trees. She suggested that teachers do an online blogging
course. She showed us how our Eden blog page is set up. She suggested that
older children also write articles for the blog.
Shereya Govender Grade
7
Everyone enjoyed it and learnt a lot, judging by these responses..
Thank you so much for a lovely afternoon spent at Eden yesterday! We left
feeling inspired and energised and were especially impressed with your
enthusiasm and generosity in sharing your ideas.
We look forward to coming to your Eco Fest and wish you well with your Eco
projects in the meanwhile.
