PIPS vs Tutor Time

i'd like to send my 21 month old daughter to playgroup/pre-nursery and cant decide between PIPs(kwln) and Tutor Time.


I think learning mandarin may be better at Tutor time as i think its 30-45min with mandarin speaking teacher only whereas at pips its english and chinese teachers together at one time and mainly speaking in english.

i would like my duaghter to be bilingual.


PIPs(kowloon) is also new so maybe tutor time would be better.


grateful for any advice.

My daughters go to PIPS and have done since September and i cannot be more happier, neither can they.


They are in the Internatinal class which means they have an english teacher and a mandarin teacher, in effect they are subject to both english and mandarin everyday. One teacher only communicates in on language and the other only in her language and it is amazing how quick she has locked on to mandarin. So they have constant 3 hours of english and constant 3 hours of mandarin, what more could you ask for!


Their teachers, Ms Jo and Ms Lora are very enthusiastic, passionate about what they do and always teaching the children in the class more than they need to know but the kids just love it. I speak regularly to the other parents and they too are very impressed.


Flowers-daffodil, don't be out off by the fact it's a new school, it's not. PIPS was founded 20 years ago at Parkview and this is their latest campus, nothing new about them apart from their premises.


Enrol her in PIPS and you wpn't be sorry, oh and the teachers have my kids reading already and there only 3!

Flowers-daffodil - my son also attends PIPS (Kln). He loves it there. He had attended childcare in Australia last year and it took him forever to adjust, but it took him 2 days to adjust to PIPS. I have my son in the local class (as I want him to learn Cantonese), he has 3 teachers in his class; a Cantonese, a Putonghua and an English teacher. As Totty mentioned, the teachers speak in their respective languages and the students tend to pick up alot faster this way. My 2.5 year old, can speak/understand Cantonese and English, but sings in Putonghua (don't know how it worked out this way). Nevertheless, I am happy with his language development.

Are we talking about the same PIPS in HK and KLN? I am withdrawing my girl from PIPS because the education side of teachers are very substandard. Because of location, my girl participated the playgroup in PIPS KLN for 10 months. Now she is going to prenursery, I decided to take to another kindergarten, where are more baby friendly. PIPS looks nice, but teachers are not professional and the administration is terrible. I still remember the first month of playgroup, when my daugther was 13 months old, the teacher asked my daughter to BEHAVE otherwise she has to leave the playgroup. I want to know which normal baby obey and behave well at age of 13 Month!! The teacher was just unreasonable. The environmenet is not safe neither. The baby's reading card has such a sharp border that cut my daugther's face and another baby's hand. I let my daugther play there because it is close to my apartment. As she is growing now, for a better "education", I decided to take her away from PIPS