Our history.
From a single classroom in 1998 to the leading bilingual school in southern Thailand.
Pholwitaya Bilingual School was founded in 1998 by Dr. Aimpitha Chittsena, who recognised a clear need: that children in southern Thailand deserved an education in which Thai and English worked together — not against each other.
The first classrooms.
Starting from a single Kindergarten classroom on Pethkasem Road in Hat Yai, the school admitted its first cohort of bilingual learners in 1998. Within a few years, the model expanded into Primary, and the curriculum took its shape: Thai and English used as complementary tools for learning, with project-based study at its core.
Royal recognition.
Under Dr. Aimpitha’s leadership, Pholwitaya School earned the Royal School Award — a significant recognition of academic and pastoral excellence in Thailand.
For the past 28 years, the school’s mission has stayed remarkably consistent: prepare students to be happy adults — confident in two languages, curious about the world, grounded in good values.
Today.
Today PBS serves girls and boys from Nursery through Year 9, with a growing alumni network in Thailand and abroad. The campus has expanded, the technology has changed, and the curriculum has evolved — but the original commitment remains: bilingual mastery, deep thinking, and a happy school day.
Walk through our school.
See the classrooms, meet the teachers, and feel the rhythm of a PBS school day.