Yippy Playground Projects: Poplar Academy, Crowthorne. September 2012

We were asked back to the lovely Poplar Academy in Crowthorne in September and we're always pleased to be there.

This visit was to add Tyre Surrounds with Wood Chip Fill to two of the larger Tyre Jungle Gyms we had installed earlier this year.

And Principal Lizelle Naude had a great new idea of her own, she wanted Jason to make a Tyre and Wood Trailer to add to one of her Tyre Horse Climbers!

Jason and the team got started on digging the trenches needed to hold half-buried rows of tyres around each of the Gyms, creating a soft landing Boundary Wall.

Once the tyres were secure, the surround was dug down, earth removed and then a large load of Woodchip added (sand also available). 

This creates a deep, shock absorbing landing space around the gyms to aid Jump Offs and help prevent injury from falls.

Next, an Old West style Trailer needed to be added to the Tyre Horse Climber we created in Poplars Preschool Playground. Clearly if the Horse isn't big enough for all your friends, then you need a Trailer.

Construction started with the supporting poles, Deck and Handrails

Wheels, a Drivers Seat, A Ladder and a Coat of Varnish ...

Have Horse and Trailer, will travel. As far as a Poplar Preschoolers imagination!

And just as we thought our Yippy work was done, in the distance the sound of a (small) herd of Tyre Elephants could be heard approaching Poplars playground.

Coming soon; 'Introducing the Yippy Tyre Elephants' and can our Tyre Rhinos help save the real ones?

Yippy Playground Projects: Poplar Academy, Crowthorne. April 2012

When Lizelle Naude, Principal of Poplar Academy in Crowthorne, emailed Yippy at the beginning of April and said "I would like to add a few structures to our playgrounds this term" suffice to say, it made Yippys day! We'd worked with Poplar in December last year and this time, Lizelle had emailed two designs of her own that she wanted us to realise. Jason couldn't wait to get started.

First of Lizelle's designs was for a Horse Ride On Climber for the Preschool playground.


He/she needs a name ... anyone?

The design worked so well we went on to make a larger one for the Primary playground also and we'll definitely be adding the Horse Climber to our product list very soon. 

The second design was for a low level Mini Jungle Gym climb through, again for the Preschool playground, another item that worked well and we'll be adding to our product list also.

The low-level Mini Gym with two Swings

It's so refreshing to have a customers input in this way, Yippy loves working on bespoke designs and Lizelles were so good, we may have to come back to her for design advice in the future ...

In addition to the bespoke items, Yippy added a Tyre Tunnel, some Bucket Swings and a low set of Monkey Bars to the Preschool Playground.

Tyre Tunnel. Where does it lead ... ?!

Low-Level Monkey Bars

Then we moved on to the Primary Playground and Horse Climber number two, the larger model, along with a very large Dragonfly Tyre Climber, that Jason had designed for Poplar last year.

Horse Climber, the larger

Dragonfly Tyre Shape, gives a long Tyre Tunnel tail
to a very large Truck Tyre Ball Shape

We finished the project by replacing Poplars sandpit shading, with a larger Stretch Tent Shade to cover the head of the new Dragonfly as well.



New Stretch Tent shading for the sandpit and Dragonfly

It was so nice to be back in the lovely playgrounds at Poplar. Once again, the Yippy Tester Boys (owners sons, four and two) tested all equipment very thoroughly and we hope that when the children of Poplar returned for the new term, they enjoyed discovering the new 'Yippy' in their playgrounds.