Category Archives: Recent Events

Manicures

This morning Sonia got the Manicures trolley out and organised a nails cleaning and cutting [...]

Brilliant birds.

For the nature group today we had another look at birds. Keith and Stephen chose [...]

Hoopy fun

This morning we had great fun playing Roll the hoop. Although we have a big [...]

Bingo

This afternoon Vicky played two kinds of Bingo with us. First, we played flower Picture [...]

Pam’s Birthday Party

This afternoon Anne Padget came to sing for us and help us to celebrate the [...]

Table Top Games and Jigsaw Puzzle

This morning Sonia organised a session of Table Top Games and Jigsaw Puzzle. Stephen, Roy, [...]

Jasper and Clio

Jasper and Clio are our “ therapy cats” and although not real, are very realistic, [...]

Drumming and percussion

This morning Helen put some African drumming music on You tube and handed out drums [...]

Painting

This afternoon whilst the assisted visits and supervisions were going on, we sat and did [...]

Valentine’s day activities

Today is Valentines Day. Vicky set out a few activities on the tables, such a [...]

Messages home

This afternoon Vicky helped us to do messages home. We could do Valentines messages, or [...]

Pampering

This morning Vicky went around with the pampers trolley. The options were to have a [...]

Motion

This afternoon our friend Zeezy led us in a Motion session, via Portal TV. We [...]

Chinese New Year activities

Today is the start of Chinese New Year. This morning Vicky put up some decorations [...]

Manicures

This evening Sonia organised a manicures evening for us. While Mary, Marion, Mildred and Zuandi [...]

Jigsaw and Puzzle Day

This morning Sonia took out the Jigsaw Puzzles for us. We had a great time [...]

Zuandi’s Birthday Party

This afternoon we had a great time celebrating Zuandi’s Birthday. We had an entertainer coming [...]

Bingo

This morning Sonia organised some Bingo sessions for us for whoever wanted to join. Everyone [...]

Therapy Doll – 09.02.2021

This evening Sonia organised a Therapy Doll session for us. While some of us enjoyed [...]

Songbirds

This afternoon we had a Songbirds session led by yo-Tozer Loft. Yo brought song sheets, [...]

Making Chinese lanterns

This morning Vicky led an arts and crafts session in the dining room. We made [...]

Movie afternoon

This afternoon we watched a movie together in the main lounge. We enjoyed a hot [...]

Flowers Day

This morning Sonia organised a Flowers Day for us. We tried to create some beautiful [...]

One to One

This evening Sonia spent some quality time with us individually, which is so important for [...]

Book Sharing

This morning Sonia organised a Book Sharing session for us. We all had a great [...]

Jigsaws and a Royal Variety Performance

Mary, Edith, Peggy, Olive and Pam had a happy afternoon doing some lovely jigsaws. The [...]

Weekly keep fit session

We had our weekly exercise session with Zee Zee from Motion via the webcam this [...]

Bingo, music and family contact

This morning, Helen called some Bingo games in the upstairs lounge for whoever wanted to [...]

Reminiscing

This afternoon Helen got out some old photographs and gave them to us to look [...]

Balloon tennis and fun

We had a game of balloon tennis this morning using “ pool noodles”  as rackets [...]

Arts & Crafts

This evening Sonia organised for us a session of Arts & Crafts. We enjoyed an [...]

Pampering

This morning Sonia organised a pampering session for us. While Olive, Susan, Margaret, Janet, John [...]

Memory Games

This afternoon Sonia organised a session of Memory Games for us. Jean, Penny and Sue [...]

Books and Selfies Day

This morning Sonia got out some lovely books to keep our minds and eyes occupied [...]

Sunday prayers and sharing, followed by a Singalong

This morning we had a short Sunday prayer and sharing session in each lounge. Helen [...]

Massage

This afternoon Helen offered massage and concentrated on those of us who may be unable [...]

Big Garden Birdwatch

This morning seven of us chose to join Helen with the Big Garden Birdwatch. We [...]

Chinese fans

This afternoon Helen asked who would like to join in with making some Chinese fans [...]

Exercise session

Our weekly exercise session has become part of our routine and most of us really [...]

Pasta Necklace and Tie the Knots Evening – 28.01.2021

This evening Sonia organised a session of creating some necklaces out of pasta for the [...]

Bingo and Jig Saw Day

This morning Sonia organised for us a Bingo session while some of us chose to [...]

Pampering – 27.01.2021

This evening we decided we want a bit of pampering and nail cutting. While Mary, [...]

Sewing and Games Day – 27.01.2021

This morning few of us decided to have a go at sewing. Meanwhile the gents [...]

Hook a Duck – 26.01.2021

This afternoon some of us chose to play Hook a duck and we really enjoyed [...]

Flowers Day – 26.01.2021

This morning Sonia organised a Flowers day for us. Most of us had great fun [...]

Burns afternoon

It is Burns night tonight so we had an afternoon of Scottish music and Burns [...]

Reminiscing

This morning Helen got out a bag of old mixed items and let us choose [...]

Movie afternoon

This afternoon we watched a movie together in the main lounge. We enjoyed hot chocolate [...]

Inhouse church

This morning Vicky led us in a small church service. One service in the small [...]

Biscuit decorating

This afternoon we had a go at decorating biscuits, using chocolate frosting. Vicky learnt to [...]

Resident’s meeting

This morning Vicky led the residents meeting. We did this in three separate groups, and [...]

Bird feeders

It is soon going to be the Big Garden Birdwatch so we decided to make [...]

Exercise with Motion

This morning we had our weekly exercise session with Zee Zee from Motion Exercise, which [...]

Fun and games

This morning Helen got a few games out and asked us if we would like [...]

Aqua painting

This morning Helen offered the Aqua painting to us ladies downstairs whilst visits were going [...]

Empathy doll

This afternoon, Sonia went round with the “ empathy doll” and asked who would like [...]

Gent’s afternoon

We had a gent’s afternoon today in the small lounge. We got quite competitive over [...]

Bingo

This morning Helen and Sonia organised a Bingo session for us. We had great fun [...]

Arts and Crafts

This afternoon Vicky and Sonia led us in an arts and crafts session. Today’s theme [...]

Temporary tattoo parlour– 19.01.2021

This morning Vicky and Sonia made a temporary tattoo parlour. We had a look at [...]

How I see myself

This afternoon Vicky came around with the pack of description words. The pack contained words [...]

Active Minds books

This morning Vicky got out the Active Minds books, and did some book sharing together. [...]

Film afternoon

We had a classic film afternoon, with Pride and Prejudice in the main lounge and [...]

Sing along

This morning a lot of us were very awake rather than snoozy, so in between [...]

Hook a Duck

This afternoon some of us chose to have a game of Hook a duck and [...]

One to one time

This morning Helen came and spent some quality time with many of us individually, which [...]

Motion Livestream

This afternoon we had Zeze from Motion, leading us in exercise. We did chair exercises [...]

Manicures

This morning Vicky and Sonia came around offering manicures. The options were Hand washing, nail [...]

Pin the carrot on the snowman

This afternoon we played Pin the carrot on the snowman with Vicky, using the canvas [...]

Snow play

This afternoon Vicky decided to bring the outdoors indoors by bringing in some of the [...]

Baking

This morning Vicky helped us to make some chocolate cornflake buns. We mixed together some [...]

Arts and crafts

This afternoon we did some ornamental pictures to help us celebrate Chinese New Year next [...]

Therapy cats

Jasper and Cleo are our therapy cats. Obviously they aren’t real but they purr, miaow [...]

Bingo

This afternoon we played Bingo in the main lounge with Vicky. We played quite a [...]

Fresh air

This morning Vicky was offering walks around the garden and fresh air. We haven’t gotten [...]

Brain games

This afternoon Vicky played the finish the provers game with us, which is very popular [...]

Cross stitch

This morning, whilst the staff and residents were waiting for their vaccines, Vicky got out [...]

Eve’s birthday party

It is Eve’s birthday tomorrow so we had a party for her this afternoon and [...]

Exercise with Motion

Zee Zee put us through our paces this afternoon with our regular Friday exercise session. [...]

Manicures

This morning after an assisted visit, Helen asked who would like their nails manicured, cut [...]

Fun and games

We had a mixture of games this afternoon. The men had a dominoes tournament and [...]

Massage and relaxation

There were no visits booked in this morning, which meant that there was plenty of [...]

Reminiscing

This morning Helen got some old photographs of school days and family holidays out and [...]

Arts and Crafts

This afternoon Vicky did some arts and crafts with us. The next two holidays coming [...]

Brain games

This morning Vicky played finish the proverbs with us, which is Marion’s favourite. We followed [...]

Collaboration with Twelve trees care home

This afternoon Vicky linked us to our friends at Twelve Trees care home, using the [...]

Active minds books

This morning Vicky got out the Active Minds books for us to look at and [...]

Keith’s birthday party

Roy’s son Matthew Laurie and granddaughter Shona came to entertain us for Keith’s birthday party. [...]

Sunday sharing and general sing along

It was a small but jolly group that wanted to join in with the Sunday [...]

Lost Chord music videos

This morning we watched some Lost Chord music videos and a few of us were [...]

Gent’s morning

This morning the gents enjoyed breakfast together then chose to play a few games of [...]

Keith’s birthday

Today is Keith’s 80th birthday and he really enjoyed opening a mountain of birthday cards [...]

Motion live

We had a fun afternoon with Zeze from Motion, who led us in fun exercises [...]

Happy new year

Happy New Year from all of the staff and residents at Hallamshire Care Home. This [...]

Fun and games

This afternoon Vicky got out, what we call the Fun box, which is a box [...]

Manicures

This morning Vicky came around offering manicures. The options were Hand washing, hand sanitising, nail [...]

Baby doll

This afternoon Helen got out our baby doll Sienna who nearly everyone loves to cuddle. [...]

Aqua painting

This morning Helen got out the aqua painting, which is very easy but very satisfying [...]

Bingo

This afternoon Vicky played Bingo with us in the dining room. Some of our regulars [...]

Cat therapy

This morning Vicky brought Jasper and Cleo to see us. They are mechanical cats that [...]