Beloved mid-autumn festival of NHG educational system

NHG education system welcomes a warm mid-autumn festival with a variety of learning and playing activities, learning, bringing precious lessons about love for family, friends, teachers and homeland.

EXCITING MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL AT SAIGON ACADEMY

Being well-known as the festival of children, mid-autumn festival is a special time at Saigon Academy international kindergarten (SGA). It is the most exciting time in the school year with a series of “learning while playing” activities lasting throughout September to welcome students to a new academic year.

Happy feast for spreading love

In coordination with UK Academy international bilingual school, Binh Thanh campus, on September 8th, SGA system organized an interesting mid-autumn festival with the topic “Happy feast for spreading love”, attracting nearly 1,000 parents and students to attend.

At the event, SGA children had opportunities to participate in many folk games with their parents, such as: beating a pot; passing over a monkey bridge; playing bingo; dry fishing; throwing cans; making lanterns with coconut leaves; etc. In addition, the set-priced food court hosted by SGA teachers of all campuses brought attractive snacks and made the atmosphere more festive. An amount of nearly 21 million VND raised from the food court was given to people with special circumstances, delivering a cozy mid-autumn celebration to everyone. This is also the way that SGA nurtures love and a spirit of sharing for children, as well as creating opportunities for them to practice lessons of solidarity.

Vo Ngoc Khanh Nghi and Huynh Tan Hao, students of class kindy 4.3, SGA Tran Nhat Duat excitedly making mooncakes for their families

Festival season: learning while playing

The mid-autumn festival at SGA not only took place in one day, but is also a series of activities lasting throughout September, giving students many opportunities to learn new things from activities in the exciting festival.

Children of Tran Nhat Duat campus made mooncakes by themselves to present their grandparents and parents; beautiful lanterns at Hoang Viet campus were made from recycled materials by teachers and children; To Vinh Dien campus emphasized the love of family through stories about mid-autumn; colorful fashion performances made the environment more exciting at Nguyen Van Huong campus; the Moon Lady and the Moon Boy appeared at Tran Quy Cap campus with happy interactions in English; etc. All of that created new and useful learning activities, helping activate the joy of learning, creativity and intelligence, as well as soft skills for children.

With a well-prepared festival program, educational topics were cleverly integrated into entertainment activities. SGA hopes that students and parents have kept the beautiful memories of a helpful and joyful mid-autumn festival.

Nguyen Le Thien Kim (right) and Nguyen Tran Kha Ngan, class pre 1 , SGA Tran Quy Cap in a creative class making lanterns from recycling materials

iSCHOOL STUDENTS DISCOVER "THE MYSTERY OF THE MOON"

Another mid-autumn season has come with the excitement of children. With the desire to bring a happy full moon festival for children, all campuses in the system of iSchool international integration school organized events under the theme “The mystery of the moon”.

In the middle of activities welcoming the new academic year, on the evening of September 12th, iSchool Long Xuyen held a mid-autumn festival for all students. The event provided interesting stories about the Moon Boy, Moon Rabbit, Moon Lady and reunion origin. In the event, high school students performed the stories through the lovely and exciting role-playing scenes.

Taking part in the success of this festival was the unique fashion collection of elementary school students. The collection was inspired by familiar images in mid-autumn season, such as: star lanterns; lotus flower; mooncake; tea set; etc.

Teacher and students at iSchool Rach Gia enjoying the bamboo dancing activity during the mid-autumn festival

At the festival, 200 children of iSchool Soc Trang gathered together to watch a lion dance, wait for the moon and have a feast. Just like iSers Long Xuyen, iSers Soc Trang also performed a fashion show with confident catwalking and professional poses.

The exciting atmosphere of the full moon festival also spread to other campuses of iSchool system: Rach Gia; Quy Nhon; Bac Lieu; etc. In Rach Gia, iSers made lanterns from materials like: paper; bamboo; recycling plastics. In addition, iSchool children had opportunity to play folk games, such as: passing water; overcoming obstacles; fishing; jumping. Meanwhile, iSchool Bac Lieu interested students with the contest of decorating feast tables.

The festival at iSchool Quy Nhon was more colorful when they participated in coloring paper masks, role-playing familiar characters, such as: Land Genie; Monkey King; Pigsy Genie; Super Man; etc. They had opportunities to express their creativity by playing with color clay, which is safe for their health. Moreover, activities such as making lanterns and making mooncakes interested children much with festival atmosphere.

The mid-autumn festival is an opportunity for iSchool students to have fun, explore and promote their own talents, as well as better understand the traditional culture of Vietnamese and Asian people.

Children of iSchool Bac Lieu with the feast table decorated by themselves

COZY MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL OF UKA STUDENTS

The mid-autumn festival is always a time that children all over our country eagerly await. Understanding that, the system of UK Academy international bilingual school (UKA) organized events under the theme “Once upon a moon”, bringing a cozy and joyful festival for children.

Traditional mid-autumn festival

Like other mid-autumn festivals, this year, the full moon festival at UKA system brought familiar images, like: Moon Boy; Moon Lady; Moon Rabbit and ancient fairy tales.

The elementary students took part in the lantern design competition with many beautiful and various products, enjoyed musical and magical performances together. Meanwhile, high school students organized many fun and colorful entertainment activities, such as: mooncake eating competition; flashmob dancing competition; traditional food and games counters; etc.

Mr. Alexander Ricardo Hoyte – General Principal of UKA system (left) playing the role of the Moon Boy, sharing the joy of the full moon festival with students at UKA Binh Thanh

The night of sharing

In addition to playful activities, UKA mid-autumn festivals were also full of love and compassion. At UKA Binh Thanh, teachers were touched by seeing the devotion of senior students to junior students. They carefully guided the children and baked together to make cute mooncakes. The seniors expressed their responsibilities and leadership through collective activities.

On this night, stories about the children with special circumstances educated UKA students to share the love with their community. Lessons about sharing or about the moon using surrounding light to shine out, helped children to better understand the power of solidarity in life.

Those were also opportunities for students and parents to gather together, make mooncakes, have a lantern parade and enjoy the feast. They presented to parents the cakes baked by themselves, decorated fruit tray with their friends and enjoyed all kinds of treats at the buffet.

At UKA, educating students to love and share is always priority of the school. We always create favorable conditions for students to develop well-rounded in intelligence, physical strength, kindness and pride in the good values of the nation.

Joyful laughter of students in Ha Long at the first mid-autumn festival with UK Academy

INTERNATIONAL MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL AT SNA

On September 13th, all teachers, school staff and students of the International Schools of North America (SNA) had a unique mid-autumn festival under the theme “International & Integration”, which expressed the identity of dynamism and creativity of the school of future leaders.

The event took place in an atmosphere of excitement and joy, especially with the participation of parents, making the festival cozier and more interesting.
International mid-autumn festival

Mid-autumn festival is a special occasion, starting the year-end festival season, which is celebrated by not only Vietnamese people but also by Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Taiwanese, etc. With the theme “International & Integration”, this year's full moon festival at SNA was diverse with different colors and traditional cultures, yet still creating a vivid, brilliant and consistent picture.

Mid-autumn traditional food and game counters of other nations’ cultures were decorated and prepared by SNA students. Each counter brought special and impressive experiences to teachers and parents at the event. The students had studied, researched and prepared for a long time to be able to recreate the festival space of other countries vividly and honestly.

Innovative lantern collections of SNA elementary students

Integration mid-autumn festival

The theme “International & Integration” was expressed not only in the geographical limits, but also in the creativity of SNA elementary students when they presented their unique lantern collections.

After more than a week of preparation, each class sent a representative to the stage to introduce their ideas of lanterns. The innovative ideas, such as: lantern made from recycled materials with the message of environmental protection; star-shaped lantern with the message of love for nature and global connection; robot-shaped lantern symbolizing the 4.0 technology era; etc. expressed students’ integration thinking, humanistic messages and senses of social responsibility on their own holiday.

The festival is an opportunity for SNA students to express their identities through creative and outstanding performances, as well as a chance for the school to connect students together, hence increase awareness of teammates, love and sharing in life. In addition to valuable knowledge, core ethical values are what SNA nurtures for its young leaders.

Students of grade 12 in Taiwanese costumes, taking memorable photos in their last mid-autumn festival at the school

MOONLIGHT OF LOVE COMING TO TRA VINH

On August 31st and September 8th, the Architecture faculty of Hong Bang International University (HIU) came to Tra Vinh province, giving 400 gifts worth 77 million VND to students of Kim Dong primary school, Tra Vinh society center and Dieu Giac pagoda in the framework of the charity program named "Moonlight of love".

Thanks to the program, over the past 7 years, HIU architecture students have come to many places, bringing happy gifts to children in difficult circumstances and make beloved mid-autumn festivals.

HIU students not only gave moon cakes and lanterns like gifts, but also designed and organized memorable activities for the children. Through folk games, exciting physical activities and challenging experiences, the festival left a beautiful mid-autumn memory for the children.

HIU architecture students organizing the “Moonlight of Love" at Kim Dong primary school, Tra Vinh province.

MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL AT IEC QUANG NGAI: TRADITIONAL & MODERN

Mid-Autumn festival in International Education City - IEC Quang Ngai marks the first 30 days of the global citizen generation coming to school to learn, play and grow.

Saigon Academy international kindergarten (SGA), iSchool international integration school and UK Academy international bilingual school (UKA) at IEC Quang Ngai organized fun and interesting activities to welcome the full mon festival.

Ms. Deborah Radel, director of IEC Quang Ngai international program and SGA students happily playing with lanterns in the Mid-Autumn festival.

Fairy and modern

At SGA, during the first 30 days of enrollment, there are still crying moments of children when saying goodbye to parents in the morning. However, parents also feel the change of their children day by day. Therefore, SGA teachers tried their best to organize a special Mid-Autumn festival for students - a joyful and fairy day of learning and playing.

SGA students have a whole day to enjoy the festival. In the morning, they baked moon cakes, decorated the dishes, participated in folk games. In the evening, SGA little dance team played around Ms. Hang, Uncle Cuoi, who are SGA teachers. A cozy party brought innocent smiles and excited eyes.

These activities aim to create a favorable playground for children and share the cultural, traditional values with the view of modern perspective. Sparkling 5-star lanterns, delicious moon cakes, the rhythm of the lion dance are the childhood memories that SGA students have fully experienced.

IEC Quang Ngai students create their own lanterns made from recycled materials.

Simple and colorful

For older students at iSchool and UKA, "Tet holiday of children" is the moment of gathering together with friends and family. They had creative hours to make lanterns from recycled materials, decorated the classroom and sang together. Friendship, teachers - students relationship would be more cohesive.

The first mid-autumn festival at IEC Quang Ngai is a warm, simple but colorful day. As a Tet holiday of children, the festival is also a celebration of friendship, reunion and love. For IEC Quang Ngai students, this is also an opportunity to save unforgettable memories with family and friends.

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