Events · Friday 25 September 2026
Mid-Autumn Festival
An afternoon for families, with stalls and games run by our students, mooncakes, a lion dance, and money raised for children's Mid-Autumn gifts.
The afternoon
Lanterns, mooncakes and a courtyard of families
Year 7 spent the morning making paper lanterns for the festival. In the afternoon families came to a courtyard full of lanterns and student stalls.
Year 1 sang “Lemon Tree”. At the mooncake table, adults helped children shape the filling and press it into moulds.
Cinnamon & Spice Hội An baked cinnamon buns, focaccia and bread for the day.
The mooncake table, and lanterns in the courtyard.
Run by students
The stalls and games
Students planned their own booths. They made the signs, set up the tables and served customers all afternoon.
- Primary sold ice cream and ran carnival games.
- Lower Secondary sold banana bread and ran a DIY craft booth.
- Upper Secondary did face painting and henna, and hosted a limbo competition for students and parents.
The profits went back to the students, who gave 15% of them to Da Nang Go.
A student snack stall, and the limbo pole.
To finish
Two lions in the courtyard
A red lion and a yellow lion danced on the grass, along the upstairs balcony and down the stairs, then came in among the families. Children gave them lucky money, and a few brave ones rode on their backs.
The dance ended with both lions unrolling Mid-Autumn banners, and Mr. Seth spoke to the families.
Giving back
Mid-Autumn gifts with Da Nang Go
Da Nang Go is a non-profit volunteer group in Đà Nẵng. This Mid-Autumn they collected snacks, milk, notebooks, rice and lanterns, packed them as gifts and took them to children who needed them.
Our students gave 15% of their stall profits. Parents gave money too, and bid on lanterns in a silent auction. Da Nang Go's campaign reached more than 850 children.
200
In Ngũ Hành Sơn
Children in Đà Nẵng's Ngũ Hành Sơn area.
115
In the mountains
Children at a school in the mountains.
540
Near the border
Children in communities near the border.
Thank you
To everyone who came
Thank you to the families who came, bought, bid and donated, and to our students, who got their booths ready and ran them for the whole afternoon.
Come and see it for yourself.
Walk around with us for an hour, Monday to Friday. Not in Hội An yet? We will do a video call.