Teaching Resources Learning Resources

Welcome to the Happy House website. Here you can find additional materials to help you explore the world of Happy House.

Click on any of the areas below to access the pages that you would like to visit.

About the authors

Meet Stella Maidment and Lorena Roberts, the authors of Happy House.

Acknowledgements

Illustrations by Peter Stevenson.

Happy House DVD worksheets and teaching notes

Here you can download photocopiable worksheets to use with the Happy series DVD and find teaching notes, giving guidance on using the DVD in class and answer keys.

Wordlists

Here you can download Happy House wordlists with phonemic transcriptions. There are also versions with a bilingual translation.

Teaching notes

Here you can download teaching notes and answer keys for the new Activity Book.

Planning documents

Here you can download useful documents to help you plan your teaching.

Greetings cards

You can download and print these cards for your pupils to decorate and send to their friends and family.

Happy House certificate PDF (111 KB)

Print off a certificate for your students to fill in once they’ve completed Happy House 1.

Useful links

Links to other websites where you can find background information about a variety of topics and a source of ideas and materials for your teaching.

What's on the Student's Site?

Ruby, Spike, Tina, Rodney and Otto invite your students to take part in a range of practice activities and games. Read in more detail about the activities on the site here.

Character cut-outs

You can download and print these drawings of the characters from Happy House for your pupils to cut out and colour.