Tzu Chi Academy London Joyfully Celebrates the Mid-Autumn Festival

The Tzu Chi Academy London and Taiwan Centre for Mandarin Learning (TCML–Woodford), located in northeast London about 10 minutes from Woodford Underground Station, celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival with joy and togetherness. This academic year, the school offers two preschool classes (ages 3–5), six primary and secondary classes (ages 6–17), and two adult classes (ages 18 and above). Classes take place every Sunday morning from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Alongside teaching traditional Chinese, the curriculum integrates Chinese culture and Tzu Chi’s Jing Si humanistic values, fostering both language learning and character development.

As the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival coincided with class day, teachers introduced the festival’s origins, cultural significance, and foods through storytelling, handmade paper lanterns, and poetry activities, deepening students’ appreciation for this beloved celebration.

Later, teachers, students, and volunteers gathered in the cafeteria for a hands-on cultural session, making snow-skin mooncakes, cutting pomelos, and crafting pomelo hats in an atmosphere of laughter and collaboration across generations.

The celebration concluded with everyone sharing mooncakes and pomelos — a warm and joyful prelude to the Mid-Autumn Festival.