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Mandarin Immersion Pre-school

Post by kwy » Sun, 01 Feb 2015 4:02 pm

Does any one know of any Chinese Immersion pre-schools that cater for N1-K2 inclusive?

My elder boy went to Bibinogs for 4 years of pre-school. It was total immersion Mandarin all the way.
With no Chinese speakers in the house his Chinese is pretty good.
Now it''s time to find a school for my little girl and unfortunately Bibinogs only offers the Chinese Immersion program for Nursery but not for Kindergarten. I could enroll her for the Chinese Immersion Nursery, but then I'll have to find a Chinese Immersion Kindy and move her.
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Re: Mandarin Immersion Pre-school

Post by brian_singapore » Fri, 13 Feb 2015 8:58 am

kwy wrote:Does any one know of any Chinese Immersion pre-schools that cater for N1-K2 inclusive?

My elder boy went to Bibinogs for 4 years of pre-school. It was total immersion Mandarin all the way.
With no Chinese speakers in the house his Chinese is pretty good.
Now it''s time to find a school for my little girl and unfortunately Bibinogs only offers the Chinese Immersion program for Nursery but not for Kindergarten. I could enroll her for the Chinese Immersion Nursery, but then I'll have to find a Chinese Immersion Kindy and move her.
Canadian International School, American International School and Chinese International School all offer Mandarain programs. But all are 50%/50% (I think Chinese one may have been 70%). But these are not full immersion. My daughter hasn't started yet (she will in August) so I can't comment on any of the programs.

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Re: Mandarin Immersion Pre-school

Post by mrsli » Mon, 16 Feb 2015 4:39 pm

My kids are in Chengzhu Mandarin Center, with my daughter in N1 and my son in K2 this year. Fantastic program, only drawback is it's only 3 hours a day (all Mandarin) and located in a shopping mall. But they are looking for a new location to move the growing "Little Pandas" program into, and have it be a full mandarin preschool. Hopefully that will happen within a year or so! Run by the Julia Gabriel group, located in Rochester Mall at Buona Vista. We've been very happy there.

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Re: Mandarin Immersion Pre-school

Post by kwy » Mon, 18 May 2015 4:26 pm

Just a quick and final update on this post I started in Feb, we have enrolled my girl in Bibinogs. Same program as her brother did many years ago. They ensured us they can cater for 100% pure mandarin for Nursery and Kindergarten. So she can stay there for 4 years. Happy parents, happy little girl!
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