Author Archives: Karen Betts
Baking mince pies
Pam C, Mary and Marion Peck were all very keen to help make mince pies [...]
Dec
Godly Play
We began the session by singing Christmas carols, led by Tracy on the guitar and [...]
Dec
Santa Visit
Many were surprised to see Father Christmas, Mary Christmas and Santa’s Little Helper visit to [...]
Dec
Christmas visitors/meal
We had a fabulous Christmas meal prepared by our lovely chef Kirsty and her gran. [...]
Dec
Christmas eve shenanigans
We did various activities with Vicky on Christmas eve, including making snow globe magnets, playing [...]
Dec
Cinderella Panto Trip
We had a fab trip out to the Lyceum Theatre to See Cinderella. Vicky, Peter, [...]
Dec
Christmas Party
We had a fabulous time with the Andrew Watson Quintet (keyboard, drums, sax, clarinet, bass [...]
Dec
Christmas Holy Communion Service
We enjoyed a Christmas Holy Communion Service with Tracy playing carols on her guitar. Good [...]
Dec
Jesus Centre Tea Dance
We had our Christmas Tea Dance today, at the Sheffield Jesus Centre. Our regular singer, [...]
Dec
St Thomas Carollers
We had a lovely evening together singing Christmas carols with the help of our old [...]
Dec
Buzz Christmas party
We were very pleased to be invited by Buzz to their Christmas party/meal and Susan, [...]
Dec
Hand Bell Ringing
We had a visit from Holy Trinity Handbell Ringers this afternoon. They played us a [...]
Dec
St Marks Carols
This evening we had a visit from members of St Marks church, who sang carols [...]
Dec
Gardening Club
Caroline brought conifers and other evergreen plants in from the garden, as well as bringing [...]
Dec
Medieval Mayhem
Today was our Little Acorns (Intergenerational toddler group) Christmas party, hosted by Medieval Mayhem play [...]
Dec
Arts & Crafts session
Vicky got out some arts and crafts materials and set them up in the dining [...]
Dec
Upper Chapel coffee morning
We had a trip out to the Upper Chapel this morning. Vicky and Krystal took [...]
Dec
A Christmas Carol
It was good to have Jess and Andrew from North East Producers to act out [...]
Dec
Cinderella
We had another amazing pantomime at the Lyceum. They seem to get better every year. [...]
Dec
Irish Teadance
Steve and Ann took Win to the Irish Tea Dance with Margaret Pashley and Helen. [...]
Dec
Old Horns Inn
We enjoyed an excellent outing to the Old Horns Inn with a delightful ride through [...]
Dec
Memory Cafe
We had a lovely Christmas-themed Memory Cafe today with the Christmas Alphabet Game, with Pam’s [...]
Dec
Lost Chord
We had two lovely ladies from Lost Chord come to entertain us today. A singer [...]
Dec
Reindeer Ring Toss – 5th December 2019
This afternoon Vicky blew up the inflatable Reindeer ring toss game that she bought, and [...]
Dec
Cookie decorating – 2nd December 2019
Vicky brought in some digestive biscuits, large marshmallows and icing in. We had a go [...]
Dec
Birthday party for Lillie and Val
Rebekah Austin helped us to celebrate the birthdays of Lillie and Val C. We had [...]
Nov
Godly Play
We enjoyed another Godly Play story with Tracy called the Ark and the Tent. We [...]
Nov
Jesus Centre Tea Dance – 28th November 2019
We had a very enjoyable time at the Jesus Centre Tea Dance today with Vicky [...]
Nov
Motion
We had another exciting Motion session with three students coming to help us do some [...]
Wentworth Garden Centre
We had an enjoyable trip out to Wentworth garden centre with Vicky and Hellen. We [...]
Nov
Guitar Sing-a-long
Tracy led a guitar sing-a-long in the main lounge whilst Terry and Matthew were visiting. [...]
Nov
RMC Dance Performance
We were all thrilled to have the RMC dance class, led by Rachel, from the [...]
Nov
Cycling Without Age
Janet was or “pilot” for the afternoon and although it looked like rain, the rain [...]
Nov
Buzz Coffee morning
This morning we enjoyed some fresh air on the way to Buzz coffee morning with [...]
Nov
Music session
Vicky and Helen had a music session with us. We used musical instruments and ribbon [...]
Nov
Little Acorns
We had an enjoyable time with Little Acorns toddler session this morning with three children [...]
Nov
Holy Communion
The Conservatory was packed out for our Holy Communion Service with Jennifer and Frances leading [...]
Nov
Irish Tea Dance
It was a cold but sunny day when we headed off to the Philadelphia Club [...]
Nov
Crucible Tea Dance – 12th November 2019
We had a very enjoyable trip out to the Crucible tea Dance this afternoon, with [...]
Nov
Gardening Club
We had great fun today making Scandinavian wreathes with wire, fern and various trimmings. Beautiful. [...]
Nov
Remembrance Service
Tracy led a Remembrance Sunday service in the small lounge. Margaret Seal, Olga, Marion Peck [...]
Nov
Marek’s Birthday
We celebrated Marek’s birthday with chocolate cake and sang Happy Birthday to him. We all [...]
Nov
Lost Chord
Deborah and Alistair came from Lost Chord to sing us a whole variety of songs [...]
Nov
Music & Dementia Workshop
We all had great fun in the lounge this afternoon taking part in a workshop [...]
Nov
Buzz
We wrapped up warm before heading off to Buzz this morning. Susan enjoyed chatting to [...]
Nov
Bonfire Party
We had another exciting Bonfire party with lots of family, staff and friends joining in [...]
Nov
Little Acorns
We had an extra special toddler group session this morning! We started with free play [...]
Nov
Baking in the Lounge
We enjoyed making Halloween buns together using green and orange food colouring. Pam is a [...]
Oct
Halloween Party
We had a fabulous Halloween Party and we were thrilled to see Mary’s great grandkids, [...]
Oct
Visit from Nelson
Rita brought Nelson in to see everyone this morning. Many enjoyed seeing and petting him. [...]
Oct
Showroom Cinema
Vicky took us to the monthly Dementia screening at the Showroom cinema in town. This [...]
Oct
Memory Cafe
We had an enjoyable walk down to the Jesus Centre today for our fortnightly Memory [...]
Oct
Guitar Sing-a-long
We had a fabulous time singing our heads off to some of the tunes we [...]
Oct
St Marks Church
We enjoyed a lovely time at St Marks this morning and were delighted to be [...]
Oct
Reminiscence Box
We borrowed another reminiscence box from the Montgomery Theatre and were happy to look at [...]
Oct
Little Acorns
We had a very enjoyable time with the Little Acorns Toddler group this morning. We [...]
Oct
Deborah’s birthday
We celebrated Deborah’s birthday today by singing Happy Birthday and 21 Today. She had a [...]
Oct
Baking
We had fun this morning making melting moment biscuits for our Godly Play event later [...]
Oct
Godly Play
We had another exciting Godly Play story again today – The Story of Noah and [...]
Oct
Painting
We had great fun painting a rainbow for our Godly Play story tomorrow. Both Nicole [...]
Oct
Holy Communion Service
We were pleased to have our friends from St Marks Church, Frances and Jenny, come [...]
Oct
Visit from Ebony
We were very pleased today to have a visit from Betty who brought along her [...]
Oct
Flamenco dancing
We had a fantastic morning, celebrating Valerie Loft’s birthday. We had a Flamenco dancer called [...]
Oct
Gardening Club
There was a distinct Autumn feel to our gardening session today in the Conservatory. It [...]
Oct
Reminiscence Box
We borrowed a reminiscence box from the Montgomery Theatre Museum. It was fascinating to look [...]
Oct
Songs From the Musicals
We had a very interesting time looking at and reading the record cover “The King [...]
Oct
“Pictures to Share” Place Mats
We had fun over lunchtime looking at our new table mats with old photos for [...]
Oct
Bingo – 8th October 2019
Vicky played quite a few games of Bingo with us today. We had chocolate as [...]
Oct
Opening Birthday Cards
We opened Florence’s birthday cards together (a few days late) and I read them out [...]
Oct
Little Acorns – 7th October 2019
We had a very enjoyable Little Acorns session this morning. We had four children and [...]
Oct
Cycling Without Age
We had another excellent Cycling Without Age session this week with Liz on the tri-bike [...]
Oct
Lost Chord
We had another fabulous Lost Chord session this month with Grace (singing), and Zhao on [...]
Oct
Roy’s Birthday Celebration
Tracy gave a personal guitar sing-a-long performance for Roy today, with his family present. We [...]
Oct
Royal Family Day
We had a very enjoyable day looking at pictures, books and memorabilia about the Royal [...]
Oct
Celebrating Paula’s Birthday
We had good fun this morning surprising our new carer, Paula, with a coffee and [...]
Sep
Baking in the lounge
Olga, Pamela Crossland and Mary all had great fun this morning baking a birthday cake [...]
Sep
Farewell to Richard
We sang “We’ll Meet Again” to Richard (one of our chefs) who worked his last [...]
Sep
Macmillan Coffee Morning
We were very pleased to raise £70 for the Macmillan fund today. Grace and Ursula [...]
Sep
Cycling Without Age
Olga enjoyed a journey around Weston Park this afternoon with Peter (first time for our [...]
Sep
Jesus Centre Teadance
We have a wonderful time at the Jesus Centre Tea Dance today. We had Alan [...]
Sep
Buzz Coffee Morning 25th September 2019
Vicky and Krystal took us to St Andrew church hall for the Buzz coffee morning. [...]
Sep
Showroom cinema 24th September 2019
Vicky and Betty took us to the Showroom Cinema for the monthly Dementia friendly screening. [...]
Sep
Gardening Club – 23rd September 2019
We had a very enjoyable gardening Club today with Caroline. We had Peggy join us, [...]
Sep
Little Acorns – 23rd September 2019
We had a fab time in Little Acorns toddler group this morning. We had three [...]
Sep
Air pong – 22nd September 2019
Vicky was inspired to try a game of air pong with us, (Like beer pong, [...]
Sep
Wentworth Garden Centre – 21st September 2019
We had a practice trip out to Wentworth garden centre with Vicky, ready for our [...]
Sep
Godly Play
We had another exciting Godly Play session, with a packed-out room for the Creation Story. [...]
Sep
Baking Activity
Tracy needed some willing volunteers to help bake for the Godly Play event this afternoon [...]
Sep
Cycling Without Age
Tricia thoroughly enjoyed another ride in the tri-bike Rhubarb this afternoon, in the glorious sunshine, [...]
Sep