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Cycling without age

This morning Norah enjoyed a ride out on Rhubarb , we visited western park museum [...]

Afternoon tea 23.9.24

This Afternoon our lovely residents and families enjoyed afternoon tea together , they enjoyed a [...]

Biscuit Decorating 24/08/24

This Afternoon we all enjoyed decorating biscuits with icing and rainbow sprinkles or chocolate sprinkles [...]

Western park museum

This Morning Brenda and Norman enjoyed a morning stroll around western park museum , we [...]

Bingo

This morning, we played a really fun game of Bingo! We played for a line [...]

In House Church Choir

We have had a lovely morning here at Hallamshire, singing along to hymns and saying [...]

Book Sharing

This morning, we had a browse through our book collection and found lots of historic [...]

In the Garden

A few residents chose to go into the garden to look at all the lovely [...]

Cycling without age

Elisabeth enjoyed a ride out on the Cycling with out age Tri bike and enjoyed [...]

Memory games

Today we took part in Memory ball game and alphabet games , this involved Catching [...]

Gents afternoon

Gents afternoon 16.06.24 This afternoon our gents enjoyed a get together in the green lounge [...]

Ladies Morning

This morning our Ladies enjoyed a morning to get together and enjoy each others company [...]

Balloon Tennis 04.06.24

Balloon Tennis 04.06.24 The residents really enjoyed a game of balloon tennis today! Lots of [...]

Crucible Tea Dance 04.06.24

Crucible Tea Dance 04.06.24 Today we took residents to our monthly Tea Dance at the [...]

Balloon tennis

Residents enjoyed a thrilling game of balloon tennis this afternoon. This activity encouraged them to [...]

Lost chord

Lost Chord 21.05.24 Residents enjoyed a sing a long and dancing with Lost chord , [...]

Memory games 03/05/24

This Morning Residents enjoyed a reminiscence morning , we played finish the proverb , spoke [...]

Quizzes on oomph

This afternoon residents enjoyed using our brand new oomph app where we enjoyed music quizzes [...]

Karaoke

Residents and family enjoyed a lively karaoke time in the Main Lounge. We sang some [...]

Nature Club

Residents enjoyed a variety of ‘nature’ activities this afternoon. Some chose to have a walk [...]

Interactive Tablet

Residents enjoyed a fun session using the Motion app on the interactive tablet this morning. [...]

Favourite Music

Residents enjoyed a lively music session this morning. They had a lovely time getting into [...]

Gents Afternoon

Some of our male residents enjoyed a Gentleman’s afternoon where they played table top football [...]

Golf in Society

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

National Chocolate Day

Residents participated in many chocolate themed activities as part of National Chocolate Day that included [...]

Home from Home

Residents had an enjoyable morning in groups or as a one-to-one activity, helping at doing [...]

One to One Time

Residents had an enjoyable one to one time with activity staff this afternoon relaxing, chatting [...]

Around the World

Residents enjoyed the opportunity to talk about their favourite places in the world, encouraged by [...]

Motion

Residents enjoyed another TV portal session with Zeezy this afternoon. We had lots of residents [...]

Indoor football 1.05.23

  This morning we enjoyed a game of indoor football , We practiced and then [...]

Afternoon tea and pamper 29.04.23

This afternoon we all enjoyed a lovely afternoon tea in the conservatory and main lounge [...]

Anita’s 50th

We enjoyed an early celebration for Anita’s 50th birthday today. She was overjoyed with cards [...]

Songbirds

This afternoon we had a lovely session in Songbirds with lots of lovely singing and [...]

Lost Chord

This afternoon we had a lovely singing session with lost chord , we enjoyed singing [...]

Cycling Without Age

This morning Peggy and Susan both enjoyed a ride out for some fresh air to [...]

In-house Church

Residents enjoyed an in-house church service this morning with singing of hymns, following a service [...]

Plants

Some residents enjoyed watering their amaryllis this morning using a water spray. The competition is [...]

Intergenerationals

This morning we had another amazing intergenerational visit from Sheffield Hallam University Nursery. We enjoyed [...]

Burns Night

This morning we decided to celebrate Robert Burns the famous Scottish poet and went around [...]

Golf in Society

Residents enjoyed another golf session with Charles this afternoon. Some preferred to watch and cheer [...]

Motion

Residents enjoyed another lively Motion session with Zeezy via the TV portal. Great to have [...]

Father Christmas

Residents were thrilled to have a visit from the “real” Father Christmas this morning, straight [...]

Motion

This afternoon residents enjoyed another exercise class with Zeezy , Everyone enjoyed stretching and using [...]

Pen Pals

This morning we had a Christmas card making and writing session and wrote letters to [...]

Tabby Teas Cat Cafe

Residents enjoyed a trip out to the local Tabby Teas Cat Cafe this afternoon. Great [...]

In-house Church Service

Residents enjoyed a lively church service in the Conservatory this morning. Good to have two [...]

Halloween Party

Residents enjoyed a colourful, beautifully decorated Halloween Party with some exciting games, including the Spider [...]

Pumpkin Carving

  This morning we had a pumpkin making session in the conservatory, the main lounge [...]

Howard Keel Moment

Residents chose to listen to a Howard Keel CD in the Conservatory this morning. The [...]

Flower Arranging

We had a fun flower arranging activity using fresh flowers and hand decorated jam jars. [...]

Motion 14.10.22

This afternoon we enjoyed another session of motion with Zeezy via portal tv , we [...]

Hobbies and past times 13.10.22

  This afternoon we had a chat about hobbies and pastimes that the residents had [...]

Memory Games 13.10.22

Today we chose to engage our brains in a few memory games. We started with [...]

Balloon tennis 12.10.22

We decided to have a game of balloon tennis this afternoon. This got competitive very [...]

Musical theatres 12.10.22

This morning we enjoyed a musical theatre session. We handed around old musical programmes and [...]

Golf in society 11.10.22

  11.10.2022 Today we had a golf session with Golf in society, we were shown [...]

1-1 Sessions

Some of our residents had 1-1 sessions throughout the day today.  Bert enjoyed helping cut [...]

Memory Cafe

Residents enjoyed a lovely time in the Conservatory this morning having a special Memory Cafe [...]

Janet’s Birthday Party

This afternoon Janet had a birthday party, we had Phil Lawrence come to sing some [...]

Embroidery

Residents in the Conservatory chose an apron for an ongoing embroidery activity. Lilian was pleased [...]

Manicures

Pam and Christine were keen to have their nails manicures and painted this afternoon and [...]

In-house Church 17.7.22

We enjoyed a relaxed church service in the Conservatory and a separate one in the [...]

Birthday Celebrations 11.7.22

This afternoon we Paul Barrie came to help us celebrate the birthday of Marion, Lilian, [...]

Father’s Day Garden Party – 19.6.22

We had a wonderful Fathers Day Garden Party with outdoor games – green bowling, tin [...]

16.3.2022 holy communion service

Jennifer joined us in the conservatory and lead a service for us , we had [...]

Arts and crafts

This morning we made some shamrock banners ready for st patricks day tomorrow to make [...]

Manicures 6.9.2021

Manicures 6.9.2021 Today Sara went around and offered manicures, this included hand washing, trimming, filling [...]

Penny’s Birthday Party

Penny’s Birthday Party – 5.09.2021 This afternoon (5th September) we celebrated Penny’s birthday and had [...]

Bingo

Bingo – 4.9.21 This afternoon some of us requested a game of bingo, so Sara [...]

Fresh Air – 4.9.21

Fresh Air – 4.9.21 This morning we decided we would like a bit of fresh [...]

Inhouse Church service – 29.08.21

This morning (29th January) Sara led us a small church service. We began with Olga [...]

Motion Livestream – 27.08.21

This afternoon (27th August) we had a Motion Livestream session with Zeezy. Today’s helpers were [...]

Cycling without age – 27.08.21

This morning (27th August) we had a Cycling without age session. The weather was overcast [...]

Brain Games – 14.08.21

This afternoon Sara played some brain games, the first game we played was the category [...]

Hook-a-duck – 14.08.21

This morning Sara got out the Hook-a-duck game, and asked who wanted to have a [...]

Card making

This morning Vicky set up two tables of activities. One table was colouring Easter cards [...]

Craft afternoon

This afternoon some of the ladies downstairs chose to finish the lovely Chinese fans that [...]

Bingo

This afternoon we had a few games of bingo with Helen. Everyone was very alert [...]

Opening Christmas cards and letters

Everyone must be last minute with their Christmas cards this year because we have had [...]

Pantomime

At this time of year, we usually have a trip to see the pantomime in [...]

Christmas card crafts

This morning as part of our Christmas window frieze we made some presents to wrap [...]

Knitted angels

The ladies from Bents Green church, including Peggy’s daughter in law Ruth, kindly knitted lots [...]

Manicures

This morning Helen went round offering manicures to residents and at the same time encouraged [...]

Paula’s birthday

Today we celebrated Paula’s birthday a day late because she was off yesterday. Vicky had [...]

“Baby” therapy

This morning I went around with the baby doll, and asked who would like a [...]

Water bead therapy

Vicky got out the water beads and came around with them letting each person touch [...]

Brain games

This morning we played the category games with Vicky in the main lounge and dining [...]

Memory lane

This afternoon Vicky got out the cat’s cradle game and came around to see who [...]

Dance and exercise

This afternoon Vicky put the chairs in a semi-circle and put on a chair exercise [...]

Birthdays of Brian and Marylin

As Brian and Marylin were off on their birthday’s we decided to surprise them today [...]

Jenny’s Birthday party

This afternoon we had Russ Elliot come and sing for us, to help us to [...]

Hymns, prayers and sharing

This morning, Helen asked residents if they would like be part of the hymns, prayers [...]

Thank you

All the staff would like to express their heartfelt thanks for all the wonderful gifts, [...]

Gardening group

This afternoon we planted a variety of seeds in the containers that we decorated last [...]

Walks in the garden and smelling apple blossom

It was a lovely sunny day though quite windy and a few people chose to [...]

Celebrating Tracy’s birthday.

Today was Tracy’s birthday so at morning teatime we celebrated by singing Happy Birthday and [...]

Decorating plant pots

We finished decorating the plant pots ready for planting seeds in tomorrow. This time we [...]

Hymns, prayers and inspiration

This morning Helen led the hymns, prayers and inspiration session in the main lounge where [...]

Chair exercise, balloon play and hoopla.

Helen led some residents through some chair exercise including gentle stretching and some exercises for [...]

Communication

Helen asked residents if they would like to write a letter to their family or [...]