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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.

We talked about 5 things today to help promote positive well being. I asked the residents to name the following: something that makes you happy, something that makes you smile, something that you like to do, something that makes you laugh and something that makes you feel safe.

Promote Positive Well Being

Gwen won the most games on Monday, she really enjoyed playing. Dorothy won today for the most won games. All winners are recorded and at the end of the month prizes are given out, all residents love this.

Spring has sprung at Kings Court and residents have been having fun making daffodils as part of the regular arts and craft session.

Daffodil Making

The festival of Holi was celebrated at Kings Court recently. The dining room was decorated with lots of artwork made by the people who live at Kings Court. The staff team dressed in traditional dress and brought a variety of Indian foods for tasting. There was lots of Holi music and dancing.

Holi Hindu Festival

We had a great St Patrick's Day here at Clarendon Court, highlight was a special Irish karaoke, some good voices amongst us.

Clarendon's St Patrick's Day

A very busy Good Friday party, lots of different activities on hand from bunny racing to eggstafactor singing to making Easter bonnets. What a great Easter we had this year.

Good Friday Party

Bowerfield House have enjoyed a pampering morning while listening to some relaxation music, our gentlemen really enjoyed themselves and was feeling calm and relaxed for the rest of the day, boys love a pamper too.

Pampering Our Boys

Many of the people who live at Abingdon Court are green fingered and have very fond memories of tending to their gardens and allotments back at their homes. With the weather looking less bleak we decided it was time to put on our garden gloves, grab our trowels, and get planting!

Horticultural Heaven!

The people who live at Abingdon Court all have different physical abilities but we always find common ground through exercise. From the choice of music, to the simplicity of the moves, to how we deliver the classes - we really want to make sure our exercise sessions provide satisfaction for all.

Armchair Aerobics

Work has begun on the herb and vegetable patch for Princess Lodge. It's still early days but there is plenty of potting and planting happening. Tomatoes, courgettes, and cucumber are the first selection of vegetables to be planted with more to come.

Spring Planting

This week we had a go at making muffins! To make it a little easier we used these 'ready to go' mixes in a bottle and just added the butter, egg and milk. Our lovely chef then baked them for us. Unfortunately the end results didn't last long enough to get pictures of...

The residents enjoyed their Easter eggs and all their table decorations, over the weekend they had entertainment on the TV from our lovely singer Kerry.

Easter Celebrations

A big thank you from the team at Hope Green for the lovely Easter treats to say thank you for looking after their loved ones. These treats were thoroughly enjoyed by the team whilst on shift over the Easter weekend!

Residents and staff are ready for tomorrow's Grand National. They've picked their horses and are eager to discover who will be the winner of the last remaining Easter Egg. And they're off...

We had a big Easter Egg hunt around the garden, it was a beautiful day and it held out which we were thrilled about. All the eggs were found and enjoyed in the sun, it was a successful hunt.

The smiles we saw this day were amazing to see and the joy really did spread throughout the house which made it a lovely environment to be in.

Easter Egg Hunt

Staff dressed up to bring some joy and games to the house, this really did boost morale. Lots of laughs all round.

A fun game of football broke out in the garden which residents would join in keeping them active. We had lots of fun.

Football In The Garden

Easter celebrations with an Easter bonnet competition, residents enjoyed making the Easter hats. They decorated the table and all residents enjoyed their Easter eggs.

Easter Celebrations

Gardening day at Clarendon, today we have planted sunflower seeds in pots, we will then plant them in the garden when they have taken. A very productive day.

Sunflower Planting

Music and games in the garden. It was a beautiful day, the sun shining bright and a very enjoyable game of card bingo! Kate, Terry and Mary laughed the whole afternoon. Harry in the meantime had a little visitor come to see him whilst he was reading his daily newspaper. This made us all smile.

A Day In The Garden

Good hand eye coordination is a skill not everyone is blessed with, but at Parkview there are plenty of people who do. Very impressive ladies.

Hand Eye Coordination

Over the last year, our local Morrisons supermarket has been extremely supportive of Parkview House. This was a chance for us to give a little love back in the form of an Easter basket for the staff. Andre Hebron - Morrisons Community Champion received the basket on behalf of his colleagues.

Thank You To Morrisons

We’re so pleased to see the new team at Windsor Court is already getting involved with the community, even months ahead of the opening of this brand new

Getting neigh-bourly with Pickles the Pony

Easter at Kents Hill Care Home was celebrated by a visit from the Easter Bunny and of course chocolate for all!

Easter bunny visits Kents Hill

We had a lovely afternoon in Granby this week playing a variety of board games!

It encourages socialisation between staff and residents, as well as between residents who may not know each other very well.

This week we finished off our personality tree that is now being displayed in the memory Cafe in Rutland! Residents and staff worked together to create this bright and colourful display!

Personality Tree

Bowerfield House enjoyed a lovely coffee morning supporting Dementia UK time for a Cuppa fundraiser. We enjoyed eating yummy cakes and raised £6.53. A great day supporting something close to our hearts, well done to everyone at Bowerfield House.

Bowerfield House Fundraising

Our residents spent time making their own Easter Bonnets. It was great to see so much creativity and everyone smiling and enjoying themselves.

We had a great time making vintage cookies and choosing our toppings this morning, here at The Hawthorns. We also had a look at our Mary Berry cookbooks and some of her great creations. This afternoon we ate our cookies with everyone satisfied with their efforts.

Vintage Cookies

We have great plans for our garden this spring at The Moors! The residents had great fun creating this dream board of what we would like in our garden and then getting stuck in! We've been clearing and re-potting, planting and weeding.

The Moors Garden

The Moors was overrun by Leprechauns this St Patrick's Day! The residents had great fun dressing up and Leprechaun hunting in the garden - as well as having a laugh at our staff members all dressed up and doing special St Patrick's Day word searches and crosswords.

St Patrick's Day at The Moors

With some many incredible mums here at The Moors, Mothers Day was filled with fun, laughter and lots of presents of course! The kitchen made a beautiful mothers day lunch and the staff made sure that all the ladies, be they mothers, aunties or mother figures all had a fantastic day.

Mother's Day at The Moors

The residents enjoyed making Easter Bonnets to celebrate this special time of the year.

The residents and the staff at The Westbourne had a lot of fun on Easter Sunday. They enjoyed a visit from 4 lively chickens! Everyone sang along hymns, Amazing Grace being a favourite, they listened to a Bible reading and joined in saying the Lords prayer.

Easter Sunday Activities

Here at Hope Green we had an amazing day full of events to take part in, including a bonnet competition, an Easter Egg hunt, and buffet lunch. It was great to see staff members dressed up and enjoying lots of fun and laughter in the garden on such a sunny spring day.

Who doesn't enjoy a good foot spa and as it was National Foot Spa Day we set back and let the spa commence, we had a nice foot rub from the activity girls, what a lovely relaxing morning for us.

National Foot Spa Day

Hope Green has pen pals! A local prep school sent in a lovely letter to our residents along with Easter cards and paintings which they made for us. It was wonderful to see so many smiles! We will definitely be writing back to them. We have so much to tell them about ourselves.

Marianne showed residents how to decoupage terracotta pots, using paper napkins. It was a delicate operation to separate the layers of napkins, then stick to the pots with PVA glue, finished off with a varnish.

Decoupage Terracotta Pots

We are getting ready for St Georges Day by making placemats for the tables, decorations and bunting are next on our agenda and we're discussing what menu to have on the day, so far fish and chips have been the favourite.

St George's Day Preparations and Joyce's 80th Birthday

David, Hospitality Manager, at Ashmead Care Centre, was given a most wonderful surprise by residents and staff alike on his birthday recently. All sang happy birthday whilst the Head Chef and his team presented a spectacular homemade cake to highlight the surprise.

Staff Birthday!

On a weekly basis some off our residents enjoy making cake cookies and getting creative with cake decoration. This week we decided to make a chocolate chip cookie for our afternoon tea.

Happy Easter from Highfield!

Easter Celebrations!

All residents and staff thoroughly enjoyed the experience of the chicks who have now headed back to their farm in Yorkshire. The chicks definitely enjoyed their time here with us too! Happy Easter to everyone from all at Bowerfield Court.

A long awaited opportunity to bask in the sunshine, on a warm March afternoon, as the ladies enjoyed listening to the birds, talking about the flowers, and getting well needed vitamin D. June relayed enchanting stories about her holidays to Wales, whilst we all listened enraptured.

Warm March Afternoon

We had an amazing Easter filled with fun games, chocolates, Simnel cake and hot cross buns.

The residents enjoyed baking Chocolate Easter Eggs. Also, they tested their good sight in the garden during Easter Egg Hunting.

Easter Egg Hunt

Congratulations to Adele Lofthouse.pdf

Congratulations

We celebrated the birthday of one of our residents. The members of staff came into her room and sang together Happy Birthday to her with a cake that the kitchen staff baked specially for her. She read birthday cards and reminisced with us about her family and friends.

A Residents Birthday

The residents enjoyed making Easter Eggs and flower arranging that were displayed all around the home to celebrate this special time of the year.