About Us

Established in 2022, Happy Roo is committed into development of early child and child education.

Based in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, Happy Roo is an early childhood learning centre specialising in parent-child early education for babies and young children from 6 months to 6 years old.

Our programmes focus on early brain development, emotional security, language exposure, memory building, attention development, and learning habits, guided by age-appropriate child psychology and neuroscience principles.

Our slogan H.U.G simply means hug, an important gesture between children and parents in the learning process. Academic achievement is not our main and only theme, we see intimate and healthy parent-child bonding as a more important topic. With parents’ presence and care in children’s growth, they can unleash their potential to the highest extent.

H.U.G also represents Heart. Unlock. Grow, which are the core elements of Happy Roo.

Heart
At Happy Roo, learning begins with emotional safety. We believe children learn best when they feel seen, secure, and emotionally connected to both their parents and educators. Strong parent-child bonding lays the foundation for confidence, curiosity, and lifelong learning.

Unlock
Through structured multi-sensory activities such as music, flashcards, movement, hands-on exploration, and guided interaction, we help unlock each child’s natural learning potential. Our approach respects individual developmental pace rather than academic pressure.

Grow
Growth at Happy Roo is not measured by exams alone. We focus on the development of attention span, memory, communication, emotional regulation, and joyful learning habits, these essential skills that support children as they transition into preschool and formal education.

What Makes Happy Roo Different

Parent-inclusive learning: Parents actively participate in the learning process instead of waiting outside the classroom.

Bonding-first approach: We prioritise emotional connection before academic outcomes for children between 0-4 years old.

Early brain development focus: Our programmes support memory, focus, language exposure, and learning readiness.

Age-appropriate guidance: Suitable for babies and young children even before they can speak or walk.

Heart-centred environment: A calm, respectful, and nurturing learning space for both children and parents.

Happy Roo is suitable for parents who value emotional development, bonding, and healthy learning habits, and who believe that early education is not about rushing academics, but about building a strong foundation for lifelong learning.

Happy Roo Concept

As the name itself suggests, we value happy learning journey of a child more than anything else. Happy Roo employs a combination of Dutch and Japanese learning model. Children in the Netherlands are among the happiest in the world. Dutch has a reputation for “valuing diversity and being very inclusive.” Growing up in a culture where everyone’s unique gifts are celebrated, and children feel like they can be who they want to be without being judged, is likely to be happier. Every kid is precious and unique in their own way, they deserve a happy childhood.

While Japan is renowned for its excellent education system and is the top-performing OECD country in reading literacy, math, and sciences. With integration with Japanese education model, we tend to create a holistic education approach with solid academic ability, rich humanity and a healthy body throughout the entire school life including not only lessons but also extracurricular activities.

We also integrate eLearning model into our education system. Effective eLearning as a preparation or review component of an overall learning journey significantly increases the learning output from traditional workshop-based approaches.

Happy Roo Learning Objectives

Enhance Social Skill Development and Emotional Regulation

Children will learn to interact with their caregivers, teachers, and their fellow peers in an active and healthy way. They will develop social and emotional skills at early age. Children who are mentally healthy and socially active tend to be happier and demonstrate higher academic performance.

Coordination and Motor Skills Improvement

We train both children’s gross motor skills and fine motor skills through physical activities and games to promote balanced coordination of their mind, muscles, and their body parts.

Increase Sensory Awareness (See, Hear, Touch, Feel, Taste and Smell)

Sensory development enhances the use of your child’s senses by incorporating different colours, textures, and noises into their early education. We incorporate sensory play into your child’s learning routine to help them adapt to real-life situations, cope with changes in their environment and enjoy their surroundings.

Language Development

Through active interactions, games and activities, children will be able to acquire language in a fun and interesting way. Bringing young children into contact with foreign languages may result in faster language learning, improved mother tongue skills and better performance in other areas.

Cultivate Enthusiasm for Lifelong Learning

Through Happy Roo’s fun and dynamic educational programme, it helps to develop learning interest in children that gradually grows into enthusiasm and devotion at later stage. It is amazing how children can learn so much about the things that interest them!

Strengthen Connections

Children will be able to build strong and intimate relationships with people especially with their parents. With parents’ presence and company in their learning and acquisition stage, trust, confidence, and sense of security will be built since childhood.

Early Detection of a Learning Disability

We will be able to detect learning disability if there is any, then we will tackle the issue and assist the child to overcome their learning obstacle through systematic learning procedures.