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Moving into a care home made easy

Our care team are here to make sure that making the move is as easy as possible for you and your loved one. If you still need reassurance, here are some stories from our residents, their families and our care team.

Now the sunny weather has started to arrive we have had our green fingered residents out planting flowers in the patio garden to add some colour and happiness for all. Gardening is one of the activities at the home the residents love and now they are getting out into the garden more they are

Gardening at Manor Park

Peggy has had such a wonderful time designing Leaves in the Wind.

Arts and Crafts

We have been making a St George's Day Dragon at the home in April. Peggy did a good job of pretending she was terrified by our clearly ferocious paper mache winged reptile. The residents thoroughly enjoyed putting this together and the fun they had afterwards.

St George's Day Dragon

We celebrated National poetry month in April and our residents have created poetry corner. There was lots of opportunities throughout the month for our residents to select their favourite poems to read and there are a few videos on our Facebook pages. They did such a great job of sele

National Poetry Month

There was lots of Easter activity in the home this year. We started with arts and crafts and making our own bonnets and then on Easter Sunday one of the team dressed up as the Easter bunny and delivered our eggs for us. We had a lovely buffet in the afternoon with some party games with

Easter at Field View

The warmer weather has started to arrive in the North East and our residents have enjoyed a fair few afternoons out in our garden at the home. The gardens at Earsdon Grange are located at the back of the home and are secure with lots of garden furniture for the residents to enjoy. It’s

Afternoons In The Garden

Easter arrived at the home and for Easter Sunday during arts and crafts in the upcoming week our residents created Easter bonnets to wear on Easter Sunday. We think they did a terrific job of them.

Earsdon's Easter Bonnets

The Croft bar opened in April and we were delighted when a friend of the home, Mark, came into the home with a wonderful new sign for the bar he had created. Mark said “it was for a great cause and he wanted to help”. Thank you so much Mark.

Joy and Jade have been putting their Oomph exercises into practice today with our residents on Oak. They played 60’s and 70’s music starting off gently before finishing with a bit of Tina Turner.

We are delighted to share with you our Decision Tree which our Dementia Ambassador, Meghan at Corinthian House has created.

The decision tree enables our residents, families and friends in the decisions that we make about the home.

A massive thank you to these lovely ladies Annette and Natalie from the local Sainsburys supermarket for their donation of eggs for our lovely residents at Belmont in April. They were delighted to receive the Easter Eggs and appreciated being thought of by the local community.

Easter Egg Donation

In April we celebrated the Queen’s 96th birthday at Belmont House. We had a huge party at the home with flags, birthday cake and some music whilst we reminisced about our memories of the Queen, the family weddings and street parties and where the sad goodbye of Prince Phillip.

The Queens Birthday Celebrations

Over Easter we made some Easter bonnets at Astor Court and each resident decided on the design they wanted to create and then made the bonnet by using the supplies we had in house. We think they did a terrific job.

Easter Bonnet Creations

Our chef Christine took some time out to help our lifestyle Coordinator and residents to make a fruit cake, we made enough mixture for cupcakes and a huge sponge. There was lots of involvement from our residents and staff, lots of laughs and flour everywhere.

Easter Cake at Astor

We are really making the most of all of the different activities on our interactive table, as there really is something for everyone to enjoy.

Interactive Table Fun

He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold an estimated 150 million records worldwide and many of the people living with us Monread Lodge enjoyed spending time remembering this legendary singer.

Celebrating Frank Sinatra

Tea parties were enjoyed by everyone for the Queens birthday. Residents enjoyed singing the national anthem and waving their flags proudly.

Queens Party at Manorhey

In observation of the International Tea Day, we went to the famous Blackpool Tower. Three of our residents spent their afternoon on the Ballroom Hall. Good old days were reminisced when the dancers swayed on the dance floor.

Afternoon Tea at Blackpool Tower Ballroom Hall

One of our residents enjoyed a trip to St Clements Church in Urmston for Sunday Mass. Her religion is very important to her and we think it is good for people to be able to keep their interests and hobbies.

We had a lovely time celebrating the Queens birthday in the sunshine, our residents enjoyed ice cream treats with music and games.

Queen's Birthday Celebrations

Our lovely ladies arranging spring time sprays to brighten up our dining experience.

Flower Arranging

During last week the residents enjoyed a morning of pampering.

Yesterday we did some planting of seeds for the residents to watch grow.

The residents joined the baking club this morning and prepared a delicious chocolate Mousse.

The lovely Tia volunteered to bring our residents some cheer and stress relief. She spent the day and she loved visiting as much as our residents loved spending time with her. Everyone was sorry to see her go but she will be back tail wagging to spread her own brand of happiness very soon!

We are so excited at Clarendon Court that at long last we can welcome families in for our first post Covid Residents/Relatives meeting. We are all ready to welcome everyone with cake and wine. Here's to the first of many get togethers!

Resident / Relative Meetings

To celebrate Shakespeare day we made our very own ruff's. Here is one beautifully modelled by our very own Enid

Shakespeare Day

Sylvia and Owen enjoyed playing draughts this afternoon, it brought back lovely memories of their families and home life

Draughts and Happy Memories

We had a lovely afternoon sat in the garden with our residents whilst we were enjoying the fresh air and warm weather

Enjoying The Warm Weather

This week in Cedar Court we had a donation of some flowers and the residents took part in a flower arranging activity. The residents who took part created some wonderful floral displays to take back to their rooms and enjoyed the creativity of the activity.

Flower Arranging

Last week we celebrated both the Queens 96th Birthday and St Georges Day at Cedar Court with entertainment in the garden with Lauren from Mack Entertainment. We were graced with beautiful sunshine and enjoyed birthday cake whilst Lauren entertained us with

Queens 96th Birthday and St George's Day

The Ashmead residents received a treat from an entertainer on Friday 22nd April. They enjoyed songs dating from the 50’s through to the 80’s, with the entertainer dressing to match the era of his songs.

Singing at Ashmead

The talented chefs that work at Water Royd Care Home couldnt wait to show off their skills by creating a variety of different cakes and desserts for the all the people at our home to try. Not only did these look good, they tasted incredible too.

Easter Cakes at Water Royd Care Home

Our lovely residents enjoyed some live entertainment outside in the sunshine with a talented couple who put on and outstanding performance. They sang a large range of different song choices for the people living with us, which was really enjoyed.

Singing outside at Water Royd Care Home

Allan received his trophy today on behalf of Howgate House.

Residents, colleagues and managers alike couldn't be prouder.

Looking forward to the next competition. Well done Allan, well deserved!

Well Done Allan

We had a very special first visit from Chip the Therapy Dog and his owner this week and it was a great success with residents who were delighted to spend some time with him. It created a real 'buzz' along the corridors as Chip explored the home and sought out new faces to meet.

Pet Therapy is a great success at Hope Green!

Our Wednesday bingo session was a real hit with everyone, we had lots of the people living with us join in the friendly competition, which everyone really enjoyed.

We would like to wish her Majesty a very Happy and Healthy Birthday.

Thank you for your continuous support and for looking over us.

We will all celebrate this day with you also.

Happy Birthday Your Majesty

Staff from Pinewood visited the children and staff on Robin Ward at Jersey Hospital to donate a selection of Easter eggs

Special Easter Delivery at Jersey Hospital

Many of the people living with us at Pinewood showed off their great creativity for our recent East Bonnet competition.

Easter Bonnett Parade

The meaning of being a mother is virtually endless. A mother is a protector, disciplinarian, and friend. A mother is a selfless and often makes many sacrifices for the wants and needs of her children.

Celebrating Mother's Everywhere

We hope that you all had a wonderful Easter weekend

Easter Celebrations at Wyndham Hall

Congratulations to Angie for winning The Westbourne's Easter raffle prize.

Easter Raffle Prize Winner

Our sweet shop was open for business

Manorhey's Sweet Shop

These adorable kids came to our home to help us in distributing the Easter eggs for all the residents of Amber Court. They bring such joy to everyone, especially to our lovely residents. They also received chocolates from our residents. Happy Easter everyone!

Amber Court's Easter Helpers

As part of our garden party we had an original Daily Mail copy of the coronation from 1953 and also a copy of the illustrated London news which contains amazing pictures from the Queens life.

Daily Mail From 1953

We celebrated the Queens birthday by Planting a tree for the Queens Green Canopy initiative, created to mark Her Majesty's Platinum jubilee which invites people from across the nation to plant a tree for the jubilee, we chose a flowering Cherry.

Queen's Birthday Celebrations at Troutbeck

Clarendon Court are over the moon to have won the Regional Easter Decoration Competition! There was lots of team work by staff and the residents to produce this beautiful Easter Wreath. Well done Clarendon Court!

Clarendon Court Won!

We have been busy making Easter crafts.

Here at Birch Heath our residents got creative for Easter they made some daffodils and also created a wreath for the front door. In the main reception we created a cherry blossom arch and an Easter forest.

Easter Creations at Birch Heath Lodge