Category Archives: Recent Events
Makeover
Some of our residents had their hair done today by our lovely hairdresser, Debbie. To [...]
Jul
Summer Fair 16.7.22
We had a glorious Summer Fair experience in the garden on a gorgeous, hot summers [...]
Jul
Motion 15.7.22
We had another invigorating video Motion session with Zeezy this afternoon. Good to have so [...]
Jul
Cycling Without Age 15.7.22
We had another wonderful cycling adventure with our pilot Clare. For a change, she gave [...]
Jul
Baking for Summer Fair 14.7.22
Edith and Lilian were very keen to help bake for the Summer Fair today. We [...]
Jul
Crucible tea dance 12.07.22
This afternoon we went to the Crucible tea dance taking along John , Elisabeth , [...]
Jul
Bert’s Birthday 12.7.22
Bert had a lovely birthday receiving cards and phone calls from family. He loved his [...]
Jul
Darts and archery – 11.7.22
This morning we had a session of darts, followed by archery. We had some really [...]
Jul
Marion’s Birthday 10.7.22
Residents and staff were pleased to sing Happy Birthday to Marion today. She was thrilled [...]
Jul
Garden Dominoes 10.7.22
We spent a lovely Sunday afternoon enjoying sitting in the garden eating ice lollies and [...]
Jul
In-house Church 10.7.22
We had a small informal church service in the Conservatory this morning. John read out [...]
Jul
Motion 8.7.22
We had another exciting Motion session this week with John joining us for the first [...]
Jul
Bingo
We enjoyed a few games of Bingo this morning. Keith, Susan and Christine were all [...]
Jul
Memory Games in the Garden 7.7.22
We sat out in the garden under the sun canopy enjoying our beautiful garden and [...]
Jul
Gluten Free Baking 7.7.22
We enjoyed a baking activity this morning and we used gluten free flour to be [...]
Jul
Flower Arranging 4.7.22
Some flowers were donated to the care home from a neighbour and we had fun [...]
Jul
Songbirds 4.7.22
We had another lovely Songbirds session with Yo this afternoon which put us all in [...]
Jul
Puppets and Dolls 4.7.22
We had fun playing with and talking to puppets and empathy dolls this morning. Many [...]
Jul
In-house Church Services 3.7.22
We had two in-house church services this morning, one in the Conservatory and one in [...]
Jul
Fresh Air – 3.7.22
Residents were invited for a walk round the garden or the local area and those [...]
Jul
Gardening Club 2.7.22
We had a lovely Gardening Club session on the back decking this afternoon and fortunately, [...]
Jul
Piano
Elisabeth and Christine both chose to play the piano this morning whilst listening to some [...]
Jul
Andy Greaves 1.7.22
Andy Greaves came to entertain this afternoon. We were very impressed with his magic tricks, [...]
Jul
K’NEX – 1.7.22
This morning we had a session of k’nex with Vicky in the conservatory. We first [...]
Jul
Hallamshire Olympics finals – 30.6.22
This afternoon we had a Motion style session with Vicky. Every movement that we did [...]
Jun
Wishing well project – 30.6 22
This morning Vicky went around and told everyone about our new make a wish project. [...]
Jun
Hallamshire Olympics – 29.6.22
This afternoon we had a Hallamshire Olympics session. We are going to have a break [...]
Jun
Nature club part 1 – 29.6.22
This morning we had part 1 of our nature club session. We went for walks [...]
Jun
Multi-sensory – 28.6.22
This afternoon Vicky got out the multi-sensory bag, and aqua beads. We got to rummage [...]
Jun
Brain games – 28.6.22
This morning we had two sessions of brain games. One in the main lounge, and [...]
Jun
Guitar Sing-a-long 27.6.22
We had a lovely guitar singalong session this afternoon performing a variety of popular songs [...]
Jun
Watercolours 27.6.22
A few of us had a go at using watercolours this morning, even those who [...]
Jun
In-house church – 26.6.22
This afternoon we had two sessions of in-house church with Vicky. One in the main [...]
Jun
Mocktail making – 26.6.22
This morning we had a mocktail making session with Vicky. We kept it simple, so [...]
Jun
Hawaiian party – 25.6.22
Well, today was meant to be our Hawaiian garden party. Vicky and Chelsea spent all [...]
Jun
Cycling Without Age 24.6.22
We had another enjoyable cycling session with Peter as our pilot today. He did three [...]
Jun
Motion – 24.6.22
Zeezy came over in person to help run an outdoor Motion event in the garden. [...]
Jun
Favourite Records – 23.6.22
We had a lovely morning listening to the delightful songs from the musical South Pacific [...]
Jun
Hallamshire Olympics – 22.6.22
This afternoon we had our third session of Hallamshire Olympics. Today’s challenges were, throwing and [...]
Jun
Bingo – 22.6.22
This morning we had two sessions of Bingo. One session in the Dining room, and [...]
Jun
Dovetail Trio – 21.6.22
This afternoon we had Rosie, James, and Matt, from the Dovetail Trio, Folk Band come [...]
Jun
Town Outing 21.6.22
We made most of the gorgeous weather and headed out on tram to town. We [...]
Jun
Outdoor Memory Cafe 20.6.22
We made most of the beautiful weather today and sat outside under the gazebos for [...]
Jun
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 [...]
Jun
Cycling without age – 17.6.22
This morning we had our Cycling without age sessions. Today’s pilot was Peter. The first [...]
Jun
Motion – 16.6.2
This afternoon we had a session of Motion with Zeezy, via Portal TV. We used [...]
Jun
Archery – 16.6.22
This morning we did some archery on the patio. Everyone had the chance to come [...]
Jun
Sandra’s birthday – 15.6.22
Happy Birthday to one of our lovely care staff, Sandra! Sandra is very caring, considerate, [...]
Jun
Hallamshire Olympics week 2 – 15.6.22
This afternoon had our Hallamshire care home Olympics, session 2. The residents are competing against [...]
Jun
Interactive table – 15.6.22
This morning we had the interactive table out. Each person was given the chance, to [...]
Jun
Szilvia’s Birthday – 15.6.22
We would like to wish a very happy birthday to one of our domestic and [...]
Jun
Brian’s birthday – 15.6.22
We want to wish our handyman, groundskeeper, and general Jack of all trades, Brain, a [...]
Jun
Music Session – 14.6.22
This afternoon, we had a lively music session with residents accompanying a guitar, Susan on [...]
Jun
Baking 14.6.22
We had a lovely baking activity this morning with lots of folk taking part in [...]
Jun
Songbirds – 13.6.22
This afternoon we had a Songbirds session led by Yo-Tozer Loft. We sang an array [...]
Jun
Royal family afternoon – 12.6.22
This afternoon we got out the royal family memorabilia for our residents to enjoy together. [...]
Jun
In-house church – 12.6.22
This morning we had two in-house church services, one in the conservatory and one in [...]
Jun
Nature club part two – 11.6.22
This afternoon we got out the pressed flowers that we prepared last month. We got [...]
Jun
Fresh air – 11.6.22
This morning we went for walks around the local area. We watered the flowers before [...]
Jun
Chelsea’s birthday – 8.6.22
We want to wish Chelsea, one of our activities team, a very happy birthday! We [...]
Jun
Peters’ birthdays – 9.6.22
On Wednesday we celebrated the birthday of Peter, one of our carers. Happy birthday Peter! [...]
Jun
Hallamshire Olympics week 1 – 8.6.22
This afternoon we launched into week 1 of the Hallamshire Olympics. This weeks key exercises [...]
Jun
Message board – 8.6.22
This morning one of our activities co-ordinators, came around with the message board. We asked [...]
Jun
Crucible tea dance – 7.6.22
This afternoon we had a trip to the crucible tea dance. It starts at 1pm, [...]
Jun
In-house Church Service – 5.6.22
We had an enjoyable church service in the Conservatory this morning with Penny and Jenny [...]
Jun
Gardening Club 4.6.22
The weather was a bit cool today so we decided to have Gardening Club in [...]
Jun
Jubilee celebration – 3.6.22
This afternoon we had a garden party to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Our staff, [...]
Jun
Barney Baloney – 3.6.22
As part of our Jubilee celebrations, we booked Barney Baloney to come and entertain us. [...]
Jun
Photo booths – 2.6.22
This afternoon we had some fun with the photo props that our activities team made. [...]
Jun
Pin the jewel om the crown – 2.6.22
This morning we played a version of pin the tail on the donkey, called pin [...]
Jun
Motion – 2.6.22
This afternoon we had a session of Motion, with Zeezy, via portal T.V. We did [...]
Jun
Reminiscing with memory boxes-2.6.22
This morning, between visits we had some one-to-one reminiscing time with Vicky. She got our [...]
Jun
Wild Science – 1.6.22
This afternoon Masie from Wild Science came to let us see her animals. She brought [...]
Jun
Triple Bingo – 1.6.22
This morning we had three sessions of Bingo. The first session was sports themed picture [...]
Jun
Pamper Session – 31.5.22
Gina, our old masseur, paid us a visit and gave a few of our residents [...]
May
One fine day – 30.5.22
This afternoon we had Northeast productions, come and do a performance called One fine day. [...]
May
Book sharing – 30.5.22
This morning we did book sharing together. Vicky didn’t take many photo’s as we were [...]
May
In-house church – 29.5.22
This afternoon we had two sessions of in-house church, one in the main lounge, and [...]
May
Fresh air – 29.5.22
This morning we were given the opportunity to have fresh air in the garden, either [...]
May
Motion – 27.5.22
We had another exciting Motion session with Zeezy this afternoon via the TV portal in [...]
May
1960’s Dance Party – 26.5.22
We had a few weeks preparation for this event – a tie dye activity with [...]
May
Modelling sand, and jigsaws – 25.5.22
This afternoon was scheduled for modelling sand, but nobody was interested, so we ended up [...]
May
Home from home 25.5.22
In our home from home session this week, we did “baking”. We made cornflake crispy [...]
May
Birthday party for Jenny – 24.5.22
This afternoon, James Columbine came to help us celebrate the 75th birthday of Jenny Glossop. [...]
May
Wishing well initiative – 24.5.22
We have started our wishing well initiative, which is like a bucket list for our [...]
May
Tie Dye Session – 23.5.22
We had our final tie dye session this morning with almost everyone taking part to [...]
May
Church Outing – 22.5.22
We took a small group of residents out to a local church meeting at the [...]
May
Reminiscing – 21.5.22
We had an enjoyable morning looking at various artefacts/antiques – cameras, records, badges, old coins, [...]
May
Gardening Club 21.5.22
We had a lovely time in the garden planting some of our young plants in [...]
May
Motion 20.5.22
This afternoon we had a session of Motion, with Zeezy, via portal TV. Whilst we [...]
May
Tie dye session #3 + dancing – 20.5.22
This morning our activities team helped us to tie dye our t-shirts ready for next [...]
May
Cat therapy 19.5.22
This morning we had a visit from Jasper and Cleo, our mechanical cats. We had [...]
May
St Marks church service – 18.5.22
This afternoon we had an in-house church service, which was run by Jennifer and Francis [...]
May
Tie dye t-shirts part 2 – 18.5.22
This morning we had our second session of tie dying t-shirts. We are having a [...]
May
Lost Chord – 17.5.22
We had a wonderful Lost Chord performance with the help of Jo singing soprano and [...]
May
Tie Dye session – 17.5.22
We started our tie dye sessions in preparation for our 1960’s event next week. Staff [...]
May
Songbirds – 16.5.22
This afternoon we had a session of Songbirds led by Yo Tozer-Loft. It was such [...]
May
Table-top games – 16.5.22
This morning we played table-top games together in the quiet lounge. Not people wanted to [...]
May
Motion 13.5.22
We had another exciting Motion session with lots of residents choosing to get involved. We [...]
May