Equipping our students and children with the social and emotional tools to successfully thrive in the 21st century.

Being a kid today can be tough!

Some of the major challenge’s students, teachers and parents are facing today include:

Navigating emotions and anxiety
Responsible social media usage
Self and other leadership
Showing empathy and compassion
Self-awareness, self-management, and responsible decision making
Social awareness and relationship skills

The “Happy Schools” approach

With a student-centric approach, Happy Schools was able to experience and understand first-hand these struggles facing our students, teachers, and parents.

Using dynamic pedagogy and customised curriculum, we have developed an engaging model to resolve these problems. We provide schools with the Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and character development tools to educate the Whole Child with the aim of creating a future generation of “Thrivers”.

Our Services

We offer workshops, teacher and parent learning, curriculum, and bespoke emotional intelligence solutions to meet your school’s specific needs.

Who we are

With nearly a decade experience in formal and informal education, a background in psychology and business, leadership, and counselling experience with Lifeline JHB, as well as having studied Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) through Pennsylvania University (#1 education school in the world), we believe we have the tools to help your schools thrive!

We also work with top educational consultants, psychologists, and behavioural economics experts to ensure we get the desired results we are looking for.

Some of our testimonials

See what some of our students and fellow educators are saying.

"My son absolutely loved his sessions with Ari from Happy Schools. Every session he came home with something positive to share or implement. He really connected to this "cool guy" with positive traits. Thank you for such genius methods!"

Torah Academy Parent

"Ari you are so awesome and inspiring to me! Thanks for the lessons." This is one of the best classes I have EVER had, please don't change it." "These lessons were really fun! I hope we can do it again soon with another great topic!"

King David Linksfield Grade 5 students

"Thank you for the valuable and innovative program that you presented to our grade 4 and 5 pupils. Your infectious optimism and inclusive method created an environment of curiosity and learning that will hopefully assist them to see the positive and negative uses of social media as well as the necessity and ability to make better choices when engaging with people on social media."

Jennifer Gobetz

Social Worker, King David Linksfield

"We engaged the services of Ari Poyurs from Happy Schools to work on Social and Emotional learning with the grade 5 boys at Torah Academy. Ari has the ability to connect, engage and understand each and every child in the most phenomenal and caring way. I highly recommend Ari and Happy schools to meet any child's emotional needs!"

Stephanie Urdang

Social Worker, Torah Academy

Equipping our students and children with the social and emotional tools to successfully thrive in the 21st century.

See what some of our students and fellow educators are saying.

What the research shows about Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and character development

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