Category Archives: Recent Events

How I see myself – 29.7.22

This morning Vicky got out the self-esteem sheets and went through them with our newest [...]

Motion – 29.7.22

This afternoon we had a session of Motion with Zeezy, via portal TV. Our helpers [...]

Cycling Without Age

We enjoyed another exciting Cycling Without Age session with cheerful Peter the pilot and Leonard, [...]

Cat therapy – 28.7.22

This afternoon we had a visit from Jasper and Cleo, our mechanical cat’s. We enjoyed [...]

Clay sculpting workshop – 28.7.22

This morning we had a clay sculpting workshop with our new friend Natalie. We made [...]

Norah and Leonard’s birthday party – 27.7.22

This afternoon we celebrated the birthdays of Leonard and Norah. Our original singer had to [...]

Colin’s sapphire anniversary – 27.7.22

This afternoon Colin and his wife, and family celebrated his sapphire wedding anniversary! We hung [...]

Hook-a-duck – 27.7.22

This morning we had some fun with the hook-a-duck game. Some of us used the [...]

Manicures – 25.7.22

This afternoon we had a manicure session. We had the option of having our hands [...]

Sewing and weaving – 25.7.22

This morning we had a go at sewing and weaving. Not everyone was interested, and [...]

Dave the Banjo Man 23.7.22

We celebrated Diana’s Birthday today with Dave the Banjo Man performing lots of old tunes. [...]

Baking Cookies 21.7.22

A few of the ladies in the lounge agreed to help with a baking activity [...]

Makeover

Some of our residents had their hair done today by our lovely hairdresser, Debbie. To [...]

Summer Fair 16.7.22

We had a glorious Summer Fair experience in the garden on a gorgeous, hot summers [...]

Motion 15.7.22

We had another invigorating video Motion session with Zeezy this afternoon. Good to have so [...]

Cycling Without Age 15.7.22

We had another wonderful cycling adventure with our pilot Clare. For a change, she gave [...]

Baking for Summer Fair 14.7.22

Edith and Lilian were very keen to help bake for the Summer Fair today. We [...]

Crucible tea dance 12.07.22

This afternoon we went to the Crucible tea dance taking along John , Elisabeth , [...]

Bert’s Birthday 12.7.22

Bert had a lovely birthday receiving cards and phone calls from family. He loved his [...]

Darts and archery – 11.7.22

This morning we had a session of darts, followed by archery. We had some really [...]

Marion’s Birthday 10.7.22

Residents and staff were pleased to sing Happy Birthday to Marion today. She was thrilled [...]

Garden Dominoes 10.7.22

We spent a lovely Sunday afternoon enjoying sitting in the garden eating ice lollies and [...]

In-house Church 10.7.22

We had a small informal church service in the Conservatory this morning. John read out [...]

Motion 8.7.22

We had another exciting Motion session this week with John joining us for the first [...]

Bingo

We enjoyed a few games of Bingo this morning. Keith, Susan and Christine were all [...]

Memory Games in the Garden 7.7.22

We sat out in the garden under the sun canopy enjoying our beautiful garden and [...]

Gluten Free Baking 7.7.22

We enjoyed a baking activity this morning and we used gluten free flour to be [...]

Flower Arranging 4.7.22

Some flowers were donated to the care home from a neighbour and we had fun [...]

Songbirds 4.7.22

We had another lovely Songbirds session with Yo this afternoon which put us all in [...]

Puppets and Dolls 4.7.22

We had fun playing with and talking to puppets and empathy dolls this morning. Many [...]

In-house Church Services 3.7.22

We had two in-house church services this morning, one in the Conservatory and one in [...]

Fresh Air – 3.7.22

Residents were invited for a walk round the garden or the local area and those [...]

Gardening Club 2.7.22

We had a lovely Gardening Club session on the back decking this afternoon and fortunately, [...]

Piano

Elisabeth and Christine both chose to play the piano this morning whilst listening to some [...]

Andy Greaves 1.7.22

Andy Greaves came to entertain this afternoon. We were very impressed with his magic tricks, [...]

K’NEX – 1.7.22

This morning we had a session of k’nex with Vicky in the conservatory. We first [...]

Hallamshire Olympics finals – 30.6.22

This afternoon we had a Motion style session with Vicky. Every movement that we did [...]

Wishing well project – 30.6 22

This morning Vicky went around and told everyone about our new make a wish project. [...]

Hallamshire Olympics – 29.6.22

This afternoon we had a Hallamshire Olympics session. We are going to have a break [...]

Nature club part 1 – 29.6.22

This morning we had part 1 of our nature club session. We went for walks [...]

Multi-sensory – 28.6.22

This afternoon Vicky got out the multi-sensory bag, and aqua beads. We got to rummage [...]

Brain games – 28.6.22

This morning we had two sessions of brain games. One in the main lounge, and [...]

Guitar Sing-a-long 27.6.22

We had a lovely guitar singalong session this afternoon performing a variety of popular songs [...]

Watercolours 27.6.22

A few of us had a go at using watercolours this morning, even those who [...]

In-house church – 26.6.22

This afternoon we had two sessions of in-house church with Vicky. One in the main [...]

Mocktail making – 26.6.22

This morning we had a mocktail making session with Vicky. We kept it simple, so [...]

Hawaiian party – 25.6.22

Well, today was meant to be our Hawaiian garden party. Vicky and Chelsea spent all [...]

Cycling Without Age 24.6.22

We had another enjoyable cycling session with Peter as our pilot today. He did three [...]

Motion – 24.6.22

Zeezy came over in person to help run an outdoor Motion event in the garden. [...]

Favourite Records – 23.6.22

We had a lovely morning listening to the delightful songs from the musical South Pacific [...]

Hallamshire Olympics – 22.6.22

This afternoon we had our third session of Hallamshire Olympics. Today’s challenges were, throwing and [...]

Bingo – 22.6.22

This morning we had two sessions of Bingo. One session in the Dining room, and [...]

Dovetail Trio – 21.6.22

This afternoon we had Rosie, James, and Matt, from the Dovetail Trio, Folk Band come [...]

Town Outing 21.6.22

We made most of the gorgeous weather and headed out on tram to town. We [...]

Outdoor Memory Cafe 20.6.22

We made most of the beautiful weather today and sat outside under the gazebos for [...]

Gardening Club 18.6.22

Rain appeared to be looming so we went out individually and in small groups to [...]

Christine’s birthday party – 17.6.22

This afternoon we had a birthday party in the garden for Christine’s birthday. We had [...]

Cycling without age – 17.6.22

This morning we had our Cycling without age sessions. Today’s pilot was Peter. The first [...]

Motion – 16.6.2

This afternoon we had a session of Motion with Zeezy, via Portal TV. We used [...]

Archery – 16.6.22

This morning we did some archery on the patio. Everyone had the chance to come [...]

Sandra’s birthday – 15.6.22

Happy Birthday to one of our lovely care staff, Sandra! Sandra is very caring, considerate, [...]

Hallamshire Olympics week 2 – 15.6.22

This afternoon had our Hallamshire care home Olympics, session 2. The residents are competing against [...]

Interactive table – 15.6.22

This morning we had the interactive table out. Each person was given the chance, to [...]

Szilvia’s Birthday – 15.6.22

We would like to wish a very happy birthday to one of our domestic and [...]

Brian’s birthday – 15.6.22

We want to wish our handyman, groundskeeper, and general Jack of all trades, Brain, a [...]

Music Session – 14.6.22

This afternoon, we had a lively music session with residents accompanying a guitar, Susan on [...]

Baking 14.6.22

We had a lovely baking activity this morning with lots of folk taking part in [...]

Songbirds – 13.6.22

This afternoon we had a Songbirds session led by Yo-Tozer Loft. We sang an array [...]

Royal family afternoon – 12.6.22

This afternoon we got out the royal family memorabilia for our residents to enjoy together. [...]

In-house church – 12.6.22

This morning we had two in-house church services, one in the conservatory and one in [...]

Nature club part two – 11.6.22

This afternoon we got out the pressed flowers that we prepared last month. We got [...]

Fresh air – 11.6.22

This morning we went for walks around the local area. We watered the flowers before [...]

Chelsea’s birthday – 8.6.22

We want to wish Chelsea, one of our activities team, a very happy birthday! We [...]

Peters’ birthdays – 9.6.22

On Wednesday we celebrated the birthday of Peter, one of our carers. Happy birthday Peter! [...]

Hallamshire Olympics week 1 – 8.6.22

This afternoon we launched into week 1 of the Hallamshire Olympics. This weeks key exercises [...]

Message board – 8.6.22

This morning one of our activities co-ordinators, came around with the message board. We asked [...]

Crucible tea dance – 7.6.22

This afternoon we had a trip to the crucible tea dance. It starts at 1pm, [...]

In-house Church Service – 5.6.22

We had an enjoyable church service in the Conservatory this morning with Penny and Jenny [...]

Gardening Club 4.6.22

The weather was a bit cool today so we decided to have Gardening Club in [...]

Jubilee celebration – 3.6.22

This afternoon we had a garden party to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Our staff, [...]

Barney Baloney – 3.6.22

As part of our Jubilee celebrations, we booked Barney Baloney to come and entertain us. [...]

Photo booths – 2.6.22

This afternoon we had some fun with the photo props that our activities team made. [...]

Pin the jewel om the crown – 2.6.22

This morning we played a version of pin the tail on the donkey, called pin [...]

Motion – 2.6.22

This afternoon we had a session of Motion, with Zeezy, via portal T.V. We did [...]

Reminiscing with memory boxes-2.6.22

This morning, between visits we had some one-to-one reminiscing time with Vicky. She got our [...]

Wild Science – 1.6.22

This afternoon Masie from Wild Science came to let us see her animals. She brought [...]

Triple Bingo – 1.6.22

This morning we had three sessions of Bingo. The first session was sports themed picture [...]

Pamper Session – 31.5.22

Gina, our old masseur, paid us a visit and gave a few of our residents [...]

One fine day – 30.5.22

This afternoon we had Northeast productions, come and do a performance called One fine day. [...]

Book sharing – 30.5.22

This morning we did book sharing together. Vicky didn’t take many photo’s as we were [...]

In-house church – 29.5.22

This afternoon we had two sessions of in-house church, one in the main lounge, and [...]

Fresh air – 29.5.22

This morning we were given the opportunity to have fresh air in the garden, either [...]

Motion – 27.5.22

We had another exciting Motion session with Zeezy this afternoon via the TV portal in [...]

1960’s Dance Party – 26.5.22

We had a few weeks preparation for this event – a tie dye activity with [...]

Modelling sand, and jigsaws – 25.5.22

This afternoon was scheduled for modelling sand, but nobody was interested, so we ended up [...]

Home from home 25.5.22

In our home from home session this week, we did “baking”. We made cornflake crispy [...]

Birthday party for Jenny – 24.5.22

This afternoon, James Columbine came to help us celebrate the 75th birthday of Jenny Glossop. [...]

Wishing well initiative – 24.5.22

We have started our wishing well initiative, which is like a bucket list for our [...]

Tie Dye Session – 23.5.22

We had our final tie dye session this morning with almost everyone taking part to [...]

Church Outing – 22.5.22

We took a small group of residents out to a local church meeting at the [...]