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Happy Kids International Kindergarten / Nursery is Budapest's premier English language nursery/kindergarten established in 1999. The Kindergarten is operated via a foundation registered in Hungary, run by Peter Jones and his wife Suzy, from Australia. „HAPPY KIDS” is fully licensed complying with all education, safety, fire and health department regulations and is housed in a newly modernised purpose built facility.
The building is surrounded by a large secure playground and children's road safety track. All outdoor playground equipment incuding rubber surface football field conforms to EU standards. The Kindergarten takes great pride in personalized individual development based on each child's ability to effectively communicate in English, the language of instruction. Approximately 70 % of children come from many different parts of the world, as do our internationally experienced teaching staff. We truly offer a rich multi-cultural international environment for all our children, regardless of language, race or religion. Happy Kids accepts children from age 1,5 years to 7 years. Class sizes range from 12 to 18 children. The main classroom teachers are qualified native english speakers who take part in regular staff training and development conferences.
Happy Kids offers a rich selection of sporting programs including: swimming, skiing, skating, dance/ballet, judo, pony riding and indoor sports programs in its own gymnasium.
Classrooms feature technology centers where children use computers on a daily basis. The Happy Kids library offers a selection of children's English language books available for parents to borrow.

 
 
 
 
 

OUR MISSION
Happy Kids International Kindergarten aims to synthesize the best practices from a range of national educational systems, balanced by its own unique multicultural experience to create a day care and learning environment of excellence for children in the age range 1,5–7 years.

To create this environment our aims include the following:

- To deliver a well balanced international curriculum which is being continually developed and improved in harmony with the cultural beliefs of the host country and multinational community


- To develop motivated well rounded and culturally rich students


- To focus individual care and attention to the stage of readiness of each child so that they can achieve personal success by learning through play


- To create an environment where qualified experienced staff can develop themselves and continously give their best performance in the classroom


 - To encourage parent participation in the life of the kindergarten.

 
 
 
 

AIMS
Develop in children the knowledge skills attitudes and concepts in key learning areas.
Provide learning experiences that are appropriate to a child’s age, learning readiness, stage of development and level of maturity.
Foster a warm, caring and safe learning environment that stimulates curiosity fairness and respect for others. Develop each child’s ability to effectively communicate in the language of instruction (English) while respecting the importance of the child’s home language.
Involve inform and instruct parents in all aspects of their child’s education.

PHILOSOPHY
Our kindergarten philosophy and curriculum reflects, recognises and values the culture of our host country and our multicultural community.
International education should serve international understanding and cooperation providing strategies for meeting each child's individual needs through play.
We must help children to appreciate each child's individuality, while developing their ability to work and play together.
We strongly believe that teachers and parents are partners in their child's education.

 
 
 
 

CURRICULUM
Happy Kids' Curriculum is an internationally based curriculum which places great emphasis on the understanding of concepts and development of attitudes as well as acquisition of knowledge and skills. Underlying are the beliefs that effective learning is an active, cross-disciplinary, inquiry-based process.
It is the sum of all the experiences:

   - learning skills
   - developing concepts
   - establishing attitudes

children encounter in the pre-school.
It is a curriculum that uses the power of play to foster children’s development accomplished by means of a balanced, play-centered program in which teachers take an active role in balancing spontaneous play, guided play and directed play.
Our Curriculum is developmentally appropriate for young children. It is planned to be appropriate for the age span of the children within the group and is implemented with attention to the different needs, interests and developmental levels of those individual children.
Each child is a unique person with an individual personality, learning style and family background. Both the curriculum and adults’ interactions with children should be responsive to individual differences.

 
 

 

 

OPENING HOURS
Our international kindergarten is open
Monday to Friday

8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

VISIT US!
H-1124 Budapest,
Fodor u. 36.
Email us:
info@happykids.hu
Please call:
(+36 1) 356 2440,
(+36 30) 948 4436

to schedule a visit.

QUICK LINKS
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APPLICATION FORMS
Registration 2012/2013
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Polgár Judit

“When my husband and I were looking for a kindergarten for our children, we wanted their first experience to be in a loving, caring and homely environment, where they receive professional care and feel safe. We found all these qualities at Happy Kids, where the English language environment was an extra gift for us!
Now our children can speak two languages, they are happy and self confident! Thank you Suzy and Peter!”

Judit Polgár
Olympic champion


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  INTERNATIONAL NURSERY AND KINDERGARTEN
H-1124 Budapest Fodor u. 36.
Hungary

Email: info@happykids.hu
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