Author Archives: Karen Betts

Music With Motion

This morning, we were joined again by the lovely Kirsty from Music With Motion for [...]

Gents Afternoon

This afternoon, we sat with some of our male residents and played a very intense [...]

Holy Communion

This afternoon, we were joined again by Jennifer and Frances from St. Marks Church to [...]

World Religion Day

This afternoon, residents took part in a variety of different activities to celebrate World Religion [...]

Indoor Football

This morning, residents enjoyed a fun game of Indoor Football using our foam football and [...]

Wish Tree

This afternoon, Norman enjoyed a visit to his favourite Fish and Chip shop, Whitby’s Fish [...]

Karaoke

This afternoon, we gathered in the main lounge and conservatory to have a good old-fashioned [...]

Cycling Without Age

This morning, Cedric enjoyed a ride on the Cycling Without Age bike brilliantly driven by [...]

Oomph Singer

This afternoon, we gathered in the conservatory to listen to a live streamed performance from [...]

Motion

This morning, we were joined again by the lovely Zeezy for our weekly Motion session. [...]

Little shop of horrors show

This afternoon residents enjoyed a fantastic time out to the crucible to watch the little [...]

Memory Games

15.01.25 Memory games This afternoon we enjoyed a range of memory games from the memory [...]

Flower Arranging

15.01.25 Flower Arranging This Morning we were donated some lovely roses so Wendy took great [...]

Quizzes and Singalong

This afternoon, we gathered in the conservatory and main lounge to have a go at [...]

Crucible Tea Dance

This morning, we attended our monthly trip to the Crucible for their Tea Dance! We [...]

Scrapbooking

This morning, we enjoyed reminiscing about past activities and event we have participating in here [...]

Ladies Pamper Session

  This morning, we enjoyed a lovely pampering session. We had hand massages and applied [...]

Oomph Singer & Flower Arranging

  This afternoon some of us enjoyed listening to Alan on our interactive tablet and [...]

Motion

This morning, we were joined again by the wonderful Zeezy for our weekly exercise class. [...]

Zoolab

This afternoon we enjoyed a lovely visit from the zoolab who brought a bunch of [...]

Arts and crafts

Residents enjoyed a relaxed morning taking part in some arts and crafts. We made some [...]

Balloon Tennis

08.01.25 Balloon Tennis This morning residents took part in a game of Balloon Tennis , [...]

Snow Day Activities

Today, we were enjoying our snow day by having a relaxed Home from Home activity [...]

Sensory

This afternoon we had a play around with our sensory equipment to help our residents [...]

Doll Therapy

This morning, we were visited by our life-like therapy doll to spend some time with [...]

Little Shop of Horrors Singalong

This afternoon, we attended the Little Shop of Horrors Sing-A-Long at the Crucible, where we [...]

Motion

This morning, we were joined by Zeezy for our first motion session of the year [...]

Snow white panto

Today we enjoyed a trip out to the Lyceum theatre to watch the Snow White [...]

New Years Reminiscence

This afternoon we enjoyed a lovely slide show presentation showing all the things we got [...]

New Years Resolutions

This morning, we all partook in a one-to-one session. We all spent time chatting about [...]

New Years Eve Party

31.12.24 New Years Eve Party. Today we had our New Years eve Party. We were [...]

Bryan and Elisabeth’s Birthday Party

This afternoon we gathered in the lounge to celebrate Bryan & Elisabeth’s Birthday. Bryan is [...]

Hoopla

This morning residents were challenged to a game of Hoopla, where they must throw as [...]

Memory Ball Games

This morning resident’s enjoyed Memory ball games. We had great fun throwing and catching the [...]

Bingo

  28.12.24 This Afternoon residents enjoyed a range of activities , mainly a game of [...]

Motion

This afternoon, residents took part in our final Motion class of 2024! We were joined [...]

Oomph Interactive

This morning, we gathered in the lounge and conservatory to partake in the activities that [...]

Boxing Day

  26.12.24 Boxing day lunch Residents enjoyed a lovely boxing day lunch in the main [...]

Christmas Day

25.12.24 Christmas Day Residents have had a wonderful day, surrounded by family members and enjoying [...]

Christmas Arts and Crafts

  This morning, we had a wonderful time doing some Christmas themed crafts. Some of [...]

Christmas Singalong

This afternoon we gathered in the lounge for a Christmas singalong, where we got out [...]

Indoor Football

This morning, we gathered in the lounge and conservatory for a really fun indoor football [...]

Church

22.12.24 In house church Wendy enjoyed a 1-1 activity for In house church , Wendy [...]

Cat therapy 21.12.24

21.12.24 Cat Therapy This Afternoon Residents enjoyed a cuddle with our Therapy Cat they named [...]

Balloon Tennis 21.12.24

21.12.24 Balloon Tennis This Morning,  residents enjoyed a fun game of Balloon Tennis in the [...]

Winter Wonderland & Oomph Christmas Singer

This afternoon we took residents to visit our outdoor Winter Wonderland to look at the [...]

Motion

This morning, we were joined by the lovely Zeezy for our weekly exercise class. We [...]

In house pantomime

Residents enjoyed watching our final in house panto of the year which was great fun. [...]

Intergens

We had a lovely visit from the Sheffield Hallam university nursery this morning who came [...]

Blackpool illuminations

Residents enjoyed a fun evening out in Blackpool today to see the Blackpool illuminations which [...]

Golf in Society

This afternoon, we were joined again by the wonderful Charles from Golf in Society to [...]

The Crucible Christmas Tea Dance

This morning, we enjoyed a trip to the Crucible for the Christmas Tea Dance. We [...]

Holy Communion

This afternoon, we were joined again by the lovely Jennifer and Francis from St.Marks Church [...]

Christmas Card Decorating

This morning, we gathered in the lounge and conservatory to take part in some Christmas [...]

15.12.24 Relaxing session

15.12.24 Relaxing session This Afternoon residents enjoyed a relaxation session , some enjoyed having there [...]

Christmas Party

14.12.24 Christmas Party Today Residents enjoyed their Christmas Party , we were joined by Families [...]

Carol’s Birthday Party

This afternoon we gathered in the main lounge to celebrate Carol’s birthday. We were brilliantly [...]

Motion

This morning, we were joined again by Zeezy for our weekly Motion class. We practised [...]

Christmas Arts and Crafts

This afternoon, we enjoyed getting creative by painting our own baubles to decorate our miniature [...]

Stanley Therapy

This morning, we were joined again by our four-legged friend Stanley to lighten up our [...]

Carol Concert

This evening, we were visited by members of St Mark’s Church for an in-house Carol [...]

Katie O’Brien’s Pub Outing

Today staff and residents attended Katie O’Brien’s Irish Bar in town for their over 70s [...]

Christmas Biscuit Decorating

This afternoon we gathered in the lounge to decorate our baking creations from this morning. [...]

Christmas Baking

This morning, we gathered in the conservatory to make some delicious gingerbread biscuits. Residents enjoyed [...]

Christmas Karaoke

  This afternoon we all gathered in the main lounge for a Christmas themed karaoke [...]

Oomph Singer

This afternoon we gathered in the conservatory for a sing-song and a dance to the [...]

Motion

This morning, we were joined again by the lovely Zeezy for our weekly Motion session. [...]

Dementia Friendly Project

  This afternoon we enjoyed a trip out to the Crucible to attend a catch-up [...]

Christmas Quizzes

This morning, we all took part in a Christmas Quiz. We had great fun while [...]

New Garden Area

We have recently had a new patio area completed for a lovely space outdoors in [...]

Step Into Christmas

This morning, we celebrated the first day of December by joining together in the main [...]

Cycling Without Age

Cycling Without Age This afternoon Norman enjoyed a ride out on the Cycling Without Age [...]

PomPom Making

Pom-pom Making This Afternoon we gathered in the main lounge to dabble in some pompom [...]

Indoor football

28.11.24 Indoor Football This morning, we all enjoyed a really fun competitive game of indoor [...]

Karaoke

This afternoon residents and staff gathered in the main lounge for a really fun session [...]

Reminiscence & Flower Arranging

This morning residents took part in a WWII quiz to test their knowledge and reminisce [...]

Restaurant Experience

Restaurant Experience 26.11.24 This afternoon we held our Hallamshire care home Restaurant Experience. We transformed [...]

Sensory Morning

Sensory Morning 26.11.24 We all gathered to enjoyed a sensory morning. We put dimmed down [...]

Golf in Society 23.11.24

Golf In Society 23.11.24 This afternoon we enjoyed a lovely competitive game of golf with [...]

International Men’s Day

This afternoon we gathered our lovely gentleman residents to an afternoon in our Green Lounge [...]

Music with Motion

This morning, we were joined again by the wonderful Kirsty for our monthly music with [...]

Holy Communion

This afternoon we were visited by Jennifer and Frances from St. Mark’s church for our [...]

Doll Therapy

This morning, we were visited by two of our life-like dolls for our Doll Therapy [...]

Trip to the Shops & Scrapbooking

This afternoon, Jim enjoyed a visit to the shops to do a quick spot of [...]

Film Afternoon

Residents enjoyed a Film Afternoon where they were asked what kinds of movies they enjoy [...]

Cycling Without Age

This morning, Eileen enjoyed a lovely ride out on our Cycling Without Age bike brilliantly [...]

Oomph Singer

Oomph singer 15.11.24 This afternoon we were joined in the conservatory by Alan via live [...]

Motion

Motion, This morning, we were joined by Zeeezy for our weekly exercise class. We enjoyed [...]

Quizzes

This afternoon we had lots of fun attempting several different quizzes with a variety of [...]

Royal Memorabilia

We’ve had a very Royal Themed morning here at Hallamshire. We started off with a [...]

Afternoon Tea

Today we hosted a lovely afternoon tea. We were joined by Banner Jones solicitors who [...]

Edith’s Birthday Party

Edith’s Birthday Party. This afternoon we celebrated Edith’s birthday. We had live music provided by [...]

Poppy Making

  Poppy Making This afternoon we made some Poppies from tissue paper, we then cut [...]

Remembrance Sunday

Remembrance Sunday Service This morning we gathered in the conservatory to watch the remembrance service [...]

Oomph Singer

This Afternoon we all gathered in the conservatory to listen and sing along with Oomph [...]

Motion 8.11.24

Motion, This morning we all too part in our weekly exercise class with Zeeezy. We [...]

Cat Therapy

This afternoon residents had a cuddle with our real-life therapy cat. It was amazing to [...]

Indoor Football

This morning, residents played a really fun game of Indoor Football! Staff challenged residents to [...]

In House Church

This afternoon, residents enjoyed an In-House Church session where we sang hymns and said the [...]

Alphabet Game

This morning, we played the very popular Alphabet Game! Staff challenged residents to think of [...]