Eden hosts an Eco conference.

Last week Eden held a most successful Eco Conference, where we showed interested schools how to go about making their school more green. We had a number of speakers to inspire them. Thank you Mrs van Elden for organising this worthwhile event.

Mrs van Elden welcomes our guests and explains
about our Eco Container.

Mrs Padt is the driving force behind this
garden

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:

·      Working in the Worm Farm.

·      Going down to the vegetable garden.

·      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.

Written by Rhea Bhoola Gr.7   

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 18^th 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..

"Thanks so much for the invitation to the Eco Conference. My learners and I enjoyed it very much and have come away buzzing with ideas that we can implement here. I will be motivating some of our other learners to come and get involved in your Green Fest in August so will hopefully see you again then"

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.