Mission Statement

Happy Kids International Kindergarten and Nursery provides a nurturing, inclusive, and internationally minded learning environment where children from 18 months to 7 years develop confidence, curiosity, and a lifelong love of learning.

By combining the strengths of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) with an inquiry-based international curriculum, we inspire children to explore the world through meaningful, play-based experiences that promote creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and responsible action. Our Programme of Inquiry encourages children to make connections across disciplines while developing respect for themselves, others, and the natural world.

To achieve this, we aim to:

Provide a high-quality Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) programme from 18 months through Reception.
Introduce children from the age of three to an inquiry-based, transdisciplinary curriculum that reflects international-mindedness while respecting the culture and values of our host country and multicultural community through Year 1.
Foster children's agency by encouraging them to ask questions, investigate ideas, solve problems, and reflect on their learning.
Develop confident, caring, knowledgeable, well-being and open-minded learners who value diversity and act responsibly within their communities.
Create rich indoor and outdoor learning environments that promote exploration, well-being, creativity, and meaningful play.
Employ highly qualified and reflective educators who continually develop their professional practice.
Build strong partnerships with families, recognising parents as essential partners in every child's learning journey.

Philosophy

At Happy Kids International Kindergarten and Nursery, we believe that every child is a capable, curious, and competent learner. Children construct understanding through active exploration, meaningful play, inquiry, and positive relationships with others and their environment.

Our educational philosophy combines the principles of the EYFS with the International British Curriculum framework, encouraging children to become independent thinkers, compassionate community members, and responsible global citizens. Through inquiry, children investigate real-life concepts across the transdisciplinary themes while developing the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and attributes needed for lifelong learning.

We value diversity, celebrate different cultures and languages, and promote respect, empathy, and inclusion. We recognise the importance of outdoor learning as an extension of the classroom, providing authentic opportunities for exploration, observation, collaboration, and environmental stewardship.

We believe that education is most successful when teachers, children, and families work together in a trusting partnership built on communication, respect, and shared responsibility.

Aims

We aim to:

Develop children's knowledge, conceptual understanding, skills, and positive learning dispositions through inquiry and play.
Foster curiosity, creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and reflection across all areas of learning.
Support each child's individual development by providing learning experiences that are appropriate to their interests, developmental stage, abilities, and readiness.
Create a warm, safe, inclusive, and stimulating learning environment where every child feels valued and respected.
Promote wellbeing by encouraging healthy lifestyles, balanced choices, resilience, and emotional literacy.
Develop confident communicators in English while respecting, celebrating, and maintaining each child's home language and cultural identity.
Encourage appreciation of different cultures, perspectives, and communities, helping children become internationally minded citizens.
Inspire children to care for the environment by developing sustainable habits such as reducing waste, recycling, conserving energy and water, and making responsible everyday choices.
Foster children's understanding of their responsibility towards people, animals, and the natural world through meaningful action within their community.
Introduce children to emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, in age-appropriate ways that promote curiosity, ethical thinking, creativity, and responsible digital citizenship.
Strengthen meaningful partnerships with parents by involving them in all aspects of their child's learning and development.