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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 had a craft session and some good attempts at making cards, even Valentine Cards...well done.

Today, 12th February, we celebrated 'Chinese New Year'. The dining room was decorated with lanterns and bunting and residents were treated to a fab Chinese meal, getting our taste buds going it was a huge success, smiles all round...and clean plates!

Chinese New Year

This is a picture of our monthly donation from Margaret Bradie community champion at Asda Falkirk. Margaret has been making monthly donations to the home for over 7 months now. Every month is different. This month we have asked for sketch pads and pencils for our new art class.

Residents really enjoyed our pizza making session today. Our residents made the pizza dough from scratch and chose their individual favourite toppings to complete the pizzas. Lots of chats and smiles.

Today we have thoroughly enjoyed our daily walk and fresh air in our garden this morning, the weather was pleasant enough to enjoy a chit chat on the bench. What a lovely morning, such a great feeling to be out!

Daily Walk In The Garden

The theme for February is 'Peace and Love' as we celebrate the hippy era. A fun atmosphere, as staff join in celebrating peace and love! Enjoyed by all our residents!

We have expanded our regular treat trolley to include more exotic fruits. Residents have a variety of options so they are in control of what the choose dependant on how they feel on the day and may be tempted to try something new.

The activities team kick started 2021 with the return of the virtual armchair cruise. An amazing all in one activity. Our most recent travel was to Greece where the activities team went that extra mile and dressed the part to provide the residents with the ultimate experience.

Virtual Armchair Cruise

Valentines Day is almost upon us and our residents have been busy making memories and hearts!

Inspired by Sir Captain Tom Moore, memory boards have been lovingly made by residents and staff at Wyndham Hall, God Bless and Good Night Captain Tom.

Remembering Sir Captain Tom

Residents made their own Chinese hats and the Dragon came to call. Followed up with a Chinese banquet of Spring Rolls and Sweet and Sour Chicken.

Chinese New Year Celebrations

Residents and Staff at Kents Hill Care Home are very grateful to the local Tesco at Kingston; Milton Keynes for their deliveries. Helen; the community champion delivers 3 boxes of goodies on a weekly basis to Kents Hill for everyone to enjoy, bringing a smile to many faces as she arrives.&n

Thank you Kingston Tesco

This activity is about Valentine’s day, sunshine and being creative. Each resident has been given hearts to decorate in their own way.

Valentine's crafts

We made hand paper flowers and hearts to decorate our visiting pod, it's bright and cheery and the residents love the finished result.

Decorating The Visiting Pod

We had some beautiful flowers gifted from a relatives family, we decided to arrange them into some small wooden crates and they have brightened our home beautifully during the cold winter months.

We had a visit from a young boy and his mum who are local to Clarendon Court, he asked his mum if he could write to us and send some biscuits for them to give them a big smile on their faces. It is a lovely gesture and certainly brought lots of smiles.

The residents enjoyed taking part in The Big Garden Birdwatch. We placed feeders on residents windows and we made fat balls to hang on the trees. They enjoyed it so much that we did it again later on in the week. We have definitely attracted more wildlife to the garden already.

The Big Garden Birdwatch

This month we have started a knitting club and it has gone down a treat! Residents at The Belvedere have really enjoyed getting involved, for some its been relighting an old hobby and some are learning from the beginning.

The last week the residents joined to the celebration of The National Storytelling Week.

The National Storytelling Week

The Westbourne is celebrating with theme of 'Love' this February and began with hippy fancy dress, colourful decorations and a morning of our favourite songs from The Beatles. 'All You Need Is Love' was a definite favourite song to get everyone up and dancing!

We here at Knights Court Nursing home are always ready & excited for a celebration of any kind, be it a birthday, wedding anniversary, or any other occasion Team Knights Court are always rearing to go!

A very popular activity here at Clarendon is a good quiz, 'who wants to be a millionaire' is favourite, and we have a good team with great knowledge, this week we worked our way up to the million pound question...and got it wrong, better luck next time.

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

In our arts and craft activity we made some jewellery, great results and big smiles.

Arts and Crafts

Catching all the smiles today and enjoying a game of floors darts...GAME ON!

Smiles And Games

FABULOUS attire for today at Manorhey, wouldn't you agree? We love to add a bit of colour, sparkle and being creative whilst enjoying the music and songs along the way.

A Day At Manorhey

Today here at Manorhey a lady continued with her passion of sewing and made little baby's dresses which is very cute alongside many other outfits and clothes she sometimes makes for herself.

We've spent the first week of February embracing our theme of 'Valentines, Love and Friendship'. We've created our 'one love' heart which is a large heart full of individual hearts that both residents and staff have painted.

Valentines, Love and Friendship

Despite National Lockdown our activity team are still able to engage with residents in many ways, from being creative and crafty with feathers or just enjoying some tasty goodies.

Lockdown Activities

Clarendon Court are embracing send a friend a card day on Saturday 7th February. We have had some e cards created and a little pocket hug to send to our friends and relatives to remind them we are thinking about them.

Send A Friend A Card Day

Despite national lockdown our activities team are still able to engage in individual activities with our residents - playing scrabble, creativity with feathers and completing jigsaws. Or just enjoying some goodies!

Activities At Wyndham

Team Wharf have joined Age UK Bromsgrove, Redditch & Wyre Forest community campaign to get everyone moving more. Our residents are supporting our local district, Wyre Forest, in recording all the minutes that they spend moving when doing activities.

Minute Your Moves campaign, AGE UK Bromsgrove, Redditch & Wyre Forest

Betty loves exercise and is always on the go here at The Wharf!. So much so we're taking delivery of a treadmill so that Betty and our residents who love to get moving can get their daily workouts in whatever the weather!.

Go Betty go go go!

This resident was playing with playdough over zoom with her granddaughter and husband watching and chatting to her.

Family Zoom Calls

The last week, the residents could go in the garden to enjoy the beautiful view of the snow, also we had time to discover the foot prints of two of our "friends", two beautiful foxes that used to visit us from time to time and to make the first snowman of the season.

Allingham's Week

Being part of the wider community means being outward-looking, building connections and relationships, and offering support and help where it’s needed – and each and every one of our care homes strives to further its community links.

Keeping connected to the community

Bowerfield Court and Bowerfield House staff and residents are celebrating LGBT February awareness month.

LGBT February Awareness Month

To Ursa and the whole team,

Just to say a very big thank you for everything the team do for my mum, AK.

Thank You From A Family Member

With the beginning of a new year we decided to introduce new ideas within activities. One of the ideas discussed alongside residents in an activities meeting, was to begin a weekly relaxing art session.

Relaxing Art Session

The Spotlight Theatre Company is the home of Bridlington Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society (BAODS) and a registered charity.

The Spotlight Theatre Company

Music, bubbles and a glass of port made a great combination for a joyful morning of friendship and conversation. It was great to enjoy the lovely atmosphere together, say 'cheers' to friends and have a thoroughly wonderful time.

Morning Of Friendships

Please see the newsletter for The Belvedere.

January Newsletter Residents & Relatives_1.pdf

The Belvedere Newsletter

We have enjoyed many arts and crafts sessions throughout January along with many other activities including puzzles, games and movie afternoons.

February Activities at White Rose Lodge

We know how important it is to keep in touch in these challenging times and thanks to the technology this is possible. The residents have enjoyed a video call with the children from the nursery next door and from the IBS.

Allingham's Activities

Team Nights Court were bursting with excitement on Thursday 28th January. Our favourite Knights court couple Mrs and Mrs V were celebrating their 65th Wedding Anniversary. The Activities team had to think outside the box.

Anniversary Celebrations

We have been discussing the history of Chocolate and our own local brands. Lots of lovely Bournville chocolate was available which was Lillian's favourite.

History of Chocolate

Burns Night was celebrated at Cavendish Court with poetry, whisky and clootie pudding. A wonderful afternoon enjoyed by all.

We had a lovely afternoon at Cavendish Court recreating The Price is Right. Residents were invited to come on down and guess the price. The residents had a great discussion around the rise in prices and the cost of living nowadays.

The Price Is Right

Chocolate celebration, lots of conversation which is the nicest and our favourite brands.

Chocolate Celebration

With a fair few of our residents hailing from Scotland, Burns Night was a big deal here at The Moors! We did a Scottish themed quiz, listened to some highland music and had a lovely traditional meal, black pudding all around!

Burns Celebrations at The Moors

We love getting creative here at The Moors and have some brilliant artists! This week we’ve been playing with clay and making some very funny statues, some to keep and some to enjoy smashing back down for next time.

Clay status at The Moors