21/05/2026
Over the last few weeks at Joio Uplands we’ve been busy refreshing both our outdoor and indoor environments 🌿✨
Outside, we’ve opened up the garden space by relocating our sandpit, refreshing our mud kitchen, creating a beautiful atelier area for open-ended creativity and exploration, adding a music space, and developing a construction area where children can safely use real tools with scrap wood to encourage problem solving, independence and risky play through closely supervised experiences.
Our wonderful treehouse and climbing wall remains a firm favourite, building confidence, resilience and adventurous play, while our fairy garden, beside the flower shop and teepee, inspires storytelling, wonder and imaginative play. We still have our much-loved wildflower area with tree stump seats and bug houses, encouraging curiosity, connection with nature and calm moments of discovery.
Inside, we’ve refreshed and reimagined some of our spaces to spark renewed interest, including our light and reflection area for exploration and investigation. We’ve also rotated and added to our loose parts, supporting creativity, critical thinking, problem solving and child-led learning through open-ended play.
All of these changes reflect our Hygge approach — creating warm, welcoming environments where children feel safe to explore, imagine, take risks, create, connect and learn joyfully ✨
Dros yr wythnosau diwethaf yma yn Joio Uplands rydym wedi bod yn adnewyddu ein mannau awyr agored a dan do 🌿✨
Yn yr ardd rydym wedi agor y gofod trwy symud ein hardal pwll tywod, adnewyddu’r gegin fwd, creu ardal atelier ar gyfer creadigrwydd ac archwilio agored, ychwanegu ardal gerddoriaeth, a datblygu ardal adeiladu lle gall plant ddefnyddio offer go iawn gyda darnau pren i annog datrys problemau, annibyniaeth a chwarae mentrus gyda goruchwyliaeth agos.
Mae ein tŷ coeden a wal ddringo yn parhau’n ffefryn mawr, gan feithrin hyder, gwydnwch a chwarae anturus, tra bod ein hardd dylwyth teg, wrth ymyl y siop flodau a’r tipi, yn annog chwarae dychmygus, rhyfeddod a straeon. Mae ein hardal blodau gwyllt gyda seddi boncyffion a thai pryfed yn parhau i annog chwilfrydedd, cysylltiad â natur a darganfod tawel.
Y tu mewn, rydym wedi adnewyddu rhai o’n mannau i greu diddordeb newydd, gan gynnwys ein hardal golau ac adlewyrchiadau ar gyfer archwilio ac ymchwilio. Rydym hefyd wedi cylchdroi ac ychwanegu at ein loose parts, gan gefnogi creadigrwydd, datrys problemau, meddwl beirniadol a dysgu sy’n cael ei arwain gan y plentyn.
Mae’r newidiadau hyn yn adlewyrchu ein dull Hygge — creu amgylcheddau cynnes a chroesawgar lle gall plant archwilio, dychmygu, mentro, creu a dysgu gyda llawenydd ✨
