Category Archives: Recent Events

Reborn-Doll Therapy

Residents enjoyed holding and cuddling our two reborn therapy dolls. They had a lovely getting [...]

Home from Home

Residents enjoyed a relaxing home from home session where they looked at nostalgic cleaning items [...]

Theatre Deli Trip

Residents enjoyed a great outing to Theatre Deli for screening of the 1935 classic film [...]

Remembrance Sunday Service

Residents enjoyed a small Remembrance Day service in the conservatory. They read out some psalms [...]

One-to-One

Residents enjoyed some relaxing one on one time where they had a good laugh at [...]

Edith’s Birthday Party

Residents enjoyed a fabulous performance from Paul Barrie where wowed us all with his lovely [...]

Make-Overs

Residents enjoyed getting makeovers done this morning. They had a lovely time getting dolled up [...]

Motion

Residents enjoyed another portal TV Motion experience with Zeezy, this time coming from London. He [...]

Morning Activities

Residents chose to do a variety of activities this morning, from completing jigsaws, reading newspapers, [...]

Cycling Without Age

Derek enjoyed a “Cycling Without Age” carriage experience with Chris as our pilot. It was [...]

Poppies

Residents chose to help staff make some paper poppies this morning. We used scissors to [...]

Favourite Records

Residents chose an album from our record collection. We decided upon “South Pacific” and had [...]

Scrap Booking

Carol enjoyed helping to stick photos in her scrap book of Hallamshire Care Home activities. [...]

Memory Cafe

Residents enjoyed an afternoon doing a Memory Café. They had fun singing along to a [...]

Crucible Tea Dance

Residents and relatives enjoyed a wonderful morning at the Crucible Theatre for the monthly tea [...]

Dominoes

Residents enjoyed playing several games of dominoes! They had fun teaching each other and staff [...]

Saxophone Day

Residents enjoyed learning about the history of the saxophone and how it was created. They [...]

Bonfire Party

Residents and families enjoyed a very exciting Bonfire Party. Good to have family members join [...]

In-house Church

Residents enjoyed a lively in-house church service in the Conservatory. We tied together some coloured [...]

Nature Club

Residents enjoyed a sensory time looking at, listening to, touching and smelling a variety of [...]

Painting Poppies

Residents enjoyed a relaxing time helping to paint poppies using watercolour pencils. Felt much easier [...]

Interactive Tablet

Residents enjoyed using our Interactive-Tablet this afternoon. They had fun playing a variety of general [...]

Manicures

Residents enjoyed a luxurious manicure that focused on cleaning, clipping and painting their nails. They [...]

Motion

Residents enjoyed an in-person Motion experience with our well-loved Zeezy. We did lots of stretching [...]

Karaoke

Residents enjoyed a lively karaoke session in the main lounge this morning. Revitalised us and [...]

Halloween Party

Residents enjoyed a big Halloween Party in the main lounge. They had great fun playing [...]

Halloween Pampering

Residents enjoyed a soothing pampering session where they had spooky makeup put on in preparation [...]

Memory Games

Residents enjoyed tossing around our Sheffield, themed beach-ball. Every coloured stripe had a different Sheffield [...]

Home-from-Home

Residents enjoyed perusing our collection of nostalgic, domestic items. They all had fun smelling the [...]

Jack-O-Lantern Carving

Residents enjoyed carving out pumpkins for Halloween. They had fun cutting off the lids and [...]

Halloween Decorating

Residents enjoyed helping to decorate the home for Halloween. They loved picking out the different [...]

Fun and Games

Residents enjoyed playing several rounds of the trivia card games, Nostalgia and Linkee. They enjoyed [...]

Avril’s Birthday Party

Residents enjoyed a fantastic performance from a live jazz band who sang a variety of [...]

Motion

Residents enjoyed another invigorating chair-based exercise class with Zeezy via the TV portal. Staff helped [...]

Rabbit Therapy

Residents enjoyed another visit from Gloria, family and her two Mini lop rabbits – Oscar [...]

Sensory Play

Residents enjoyed using the sensory stimuli such as light up balls and fidget toys. This [...]

Picture to share books

Residents enjoyed looking at pictures in books about music, childhood memories and indoor activities. This [...]

Lavender Bags

Residents enjoyed this wonderfully sensory, aromatic, creative experience, stripping lavender from their stalks and placing [...]

Photo Sharing

Residents enjoyed looking at some recent Hallamshire activity photos. We discussed them and enjoyed recognising [...]

Ken and Avril’s Birthday Party

Residents enjoyed a fantastic performance from the Buddy Holly tribute act, James Columbine. They absolutely [...]

Pampering

Residents enjoyed a soothing pampering session where they had their nails cleaned and painted, and [...]

In-house Church

Residents enjoyed an in-house church session with a guitar singalong and staff playing their favourites [...]

Dominoes

Esme and staff enjoyed a few games of dominoes together. Other residents preferred to do [...]

Nightingale Choir

Residents enjoyed our first official “Hallamshire Choir” session this afternoon with a drum, percussion and [...]

Autumn Mobile

Mary and Esme enjoyed helping to make an Autumn mobile this morning. We cut out [...]

Motion In-Person

Residents enjoyed completing an in-person motion class with Zeezy. They enjoyed the different exercises using [...]

Autumn Arts and Crafts and Jigsaws

Residents enjoyed doing some autumnal arts and crafts. They had fun cutting out laminated, leaves [...]

Singalong

Residents enjoyed getting together to sing a selection of different songs and a couple of [...]

Stanley Therapy

Residents enjoyed a lovely visit from our therapy dog, Stanley. They had a wonderful time [...]

Holy Communion

Residents enjoyed a wonderful service from St. Mark’s Church where hey partook in hymn singing [...]

Jokes and Poems

Residents enjoyed reading aloud and thumbing through a nature themed anthology of poems and reading [...]

The Lost Chord

Residents enjoyed watching a powerful performance by Jenny Rust and the lost chord. They loved [...]

Makeovers

Residents enjoyed getting dolled up and glamorous with some makeup. They enjoyed picking out different [...]

Memory Games

Residents enjoyed tossing around our musical, memory ball, covered in music trivia questions. They had [...]

Lord Mayor Visit

Residents enjoyed a lovely visit with the Lord Mayor where they drank tea and discussed [...]

Books and Poetry

Residents enjoyed looking through an anthology of seasonal poetry. They enjoyed saying their favourite seasons [...]

Home from Home

Residents enjoyed looking through a collection of vintage, household objects such as Wright’s soap, a [...]

Indoor Football

Residents enjoyed a game of indoor football from the comfort of their arm chairs, as [...]

Therapy Dolls

Residents enjoyed holding and cuddling our two reborn therapy dolls. They loved getting to talk [...]

Motion

Residents enjoyed a Zeezy portal Motion experience in the main lounge, seated in a large [...]

Card Making

Esme chose to take part in a card making activity with most residents more interested [...]

Memory Cafe

Residents in the Conservatory enjoyed a Memory Café event with a guitar singalong time acting [...]

Baking

Residents enjoyed taking part in a baking activity this morning. They were offered a choice [...]

Autumn Arts and Crafts

Residents enjoyed choosing different dried, laminated leaves to glue onto a big picture of a [...]

Sensory Activity

Residents enjoyed experimenting with a range of different sensory toys and fidget items as well [...]

Balloon Tennis

Residents enjoyed several, lengthy games of balloon tennis as a group. They greatly enjoyed of [...]

Manicures

Residents enjoyed having their nails cleaned, clipped and filed. They liked looking through the various [...]

Theatre Deli

Residents, family and staff enjoyed a trip out to the Theatre Deli to a Dementia [...]

Sunday Afternoon

Residents chose to do a variety of things this afternoon, from watching a film, listening [...]

Godly Play

Residents were treated to a Godly Play story this morning about “Creation” as part of [...]

Gardening Club

Residents enjoyed a creative Gardening Club this afternoon with some choosing to help out with [...]

Birthday Party

Residents enjoyed a birthday party this afternoon with the wonderful J J Galway returning to [...]

Cycling Without Age

Residents enjoyed a trip round Botanical Gardens with Maggie as their pilot. Carol enjoyed showing [...]

Motion

Residents enjoyed completing an in-person motion class with Zeezy. They enjoyed the different exercises using [...]

Bingo

Residents enjoyed playing a game of group Bingo in the conservatory. They enjoyed the friendly [...]

Interactive Tablet

Residents enjoyed completing various general knowledge and music quizzes as a group and playing different [...]

Favourite Music

Residents enjoyed looking through all the different song sheets and singing together as well as [...]

Film Afternoon

Residents enjoyed discussing their favourite film genres and banding together to choose what DVD to [...]

Crucible Theatre Tea Dance

Residents enjoyed a trip out to the Crucible Theatre for a tea dance. They enjoyed [...]

Sensory Activity

Residents enjoyed trying out the different sensory toys and testing their different functions. They also [...]

MacMillan Coffee Morning

Residents enjoyed getting together to raise money for MacMillan by participating in a coffee morning. [...]

Golf in Society

Residents enjoyed another Golf lesson with Charles from the charity “Gold in Society”. All those [...]

Book Sharing

Residents enjoyed looking through the different picture-to-share books filled with nostalgic images, quotes and poems. [...]

Garden Walks

Residents enjoyed going out for walks around the gardens and looking at all the different [...]

Favourite Films

Residents enjoyed sorting through our DVD collection and reading the different synopsise and discussing their [...]

Holidays Reminiscence

Residents enjoyed reminiscing on their holidays and time spent travelling, this sparked interesting conversations about [...]

Memory Boxes

Residents enjoyed looking through their memory boxes and/or photos as part of a reminiscence activity. [...]

Cocktail Party

Residents enjoyed listening to Jazz and drinking cocktails/mocktails at our Themed Party this afternoon. Some [...]

Golf in Society

Residents enjoyed seeing Charles again for their monthly Golf lesson. We held the event in [...]

Motion

Residents enjoyed taking part in the motion exercise class this afternoon with the help of [...]

Flower Arranging

Residents enjoyed spending some time arranging some flowers, that were generously donated to us. They [...]

Interactive Tablet

Residents enjoyed some time doing quizzes on the interactive tablet in the main lounge. We [...]

Wise-Owl Visit

Residents enjoyed a visit from the Wise-Owl Rescue. They all had great fun stroking and [...]

Motion Community Games

Residents enjoyed another fabulous Motion Community Games, this time at Hillsborough Leisure Centre, smaller gym [...]

In-house Church

Residents enjoyed a fun-filled informal church service in the Conservatory this morning. Some chose to [...]

Card Making

Residents enjoyed a card making activity. Lots of designing, sticking down and satisfaction from such [...]

Jigsaws

Residents chose to complete some Beatrix Potter jigsaws.

Resident’s Meeting

Residents enjoyed a Resident’s Meeting in the Conservatory with lots of family members supporting this. [...]

Motion In-Person

Residents enjoyed doing an in-person Motion class with Zeezy. Lots of fun was had with [...]

Cycling Without Age

  Residents enjoyed going for a bike ride around the Botanical Gardens and taking in [...]