Shrewsbury International School Hong Kong Champions a Culture First Approach to Chinese Language Excellence
Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake workshop with Cordis Hong Kong reflects the school's wider commitment to teaching Chinese through history, literature and tradition HONG KONG, Sept.
Official response and confirmed impact
25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Shrewsbury International School Hong Kong ("Shrewsbury HK") is putting culture at the centre of how it teaches Chinese, a philosophy brought to life this week through a Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake making workshop held in partnership with Cordis Hong Kong.
While the event itself, the Mooncake Masterclass, invited parents and children to make mini custard mooncakes on campus, its purpose reflected a broader ambition.
Location: HONG KONG, Sept. 25, 2026; Hong Kong.
Incident background
Shrewsbury HK delivers a differentiated Chinese curriculum built around classical poetry and idiom stories at every level, a spiral dynasty based history programme spanning all six years of primary school, an annual study tour to the Hong Kong Palace Museum, and a dedicated Classical Chinese Appreciation course for Year 7 students, alongside three major Chinese cultural celebrations woven into the school calendar each year.
Ahead of the workshop, students had already spent a classroom unit studying classical Mid-Autumn poetry, including Su Shi's celebrated verse "Shui Diao Ge Tou", building their understanding of language through literature and history rather than rote memorisation alone.
