News - Hallamshire Care Home

At Hallamshire Care Home we are taking the covid 19 virus very seriously and we are working extremely hard following the advice from the UK Government and Public Health England. Following new guidance provided we have taken the decision to not limit Visiting to the Care Home, We would still advise to arrange visits to your relative or friend via appointments to allow the home to prepare, you can visit within your relatives bedroom or use our Visiting nook. We do have the facility to Skype or Facetime your relatives if you wish. Although visiting is by appointment, we are accepting new residents and if you would like to arrange a meeting to discuss your or your family members needs then please do ring or email to arrange this. Thank you to everyone for your understanding and support during this difficult time From Karen and The Staff at Hallamshire Care Home

At Hallamshire Care Home we are taking the covid 19 virus very seriously and we are working extremely hard following the advice from the UK Government and Public Health England. Following new guidance provided we have taken the decision to not limit Visiting to the Care Home, We would still advise to arrange visits to your relative or friend via appointments to allow the home to prepare, you can visit within your relatives bedroom or use our Visiting nook. We do have the facility to Skype or Facetime your relatives if you wish. Although visiting is by appointment, we are accepting new residents and if you would like to arrange a meeting to discuss your or your family members needs then please do ring or email to arrange this. Thank you to everyone for your understanding and support during this difficult time From Karen and The Staff at Hallamshire Care Home

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 [...]

Father’s Day Garden Party – 19.6.22

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

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 [...]

Reminiscing – 21.5.22

We had an enjoyable morning looking at various artefacts/antiques – cameras, records, badges, old coins, [...]

Gardening Club 21.5.22

We had a lovely time in the garden planting some of our young plants in [...]

Motion 20.5.22

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

Tie dye session #3 + dancing – 20.5.22

This morning our activities team helped us to tie dye our t-shirts ready for next [...]

Cat therapy 19.5.22

This morning we had a visit from Jasper and Cleo, our mechanical cats. We had [...]

St Marks church service – 18.5.22

This afternoon we had an in-house church service, which was run by Jennifer and Francis [...]

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 [...]

Lost Chord – 17.5.22

We had a wonderful Lost Chord performance with the help of Jo singing soprano and [...]

Tie Dye session – 17.5.22

We started our tie dye sessions in preparation for our 1960’s event next week. Staff [...]

Songbirds – 16.5.22

This afternoon we had a session of Songbirds led by Yo Tozer-Loft. It was such [...]

Table-top games – 16.5.22

This morning we played table-top games together in the quiet lounge. Not people wanted to [...]

Motion 13.5.22

We had another exciting Motion session with lots of residents choosing to get involved. We [...]

Cycling Without Age 13.5.22

We had a lovely couple of trips out around Botanical Gardens with the help of [...]

Flower Arranging – 12.5.22

We had a lovely morning doing flower arranging today with fresh flowers that had been [...]

Music & Sound Bingo – 11.5.22

This afternoon we played music Bingo in the conservatory. Our activity staff played us part [...]

Weston Park Museum Outing – 10.5.22

We had a wonderful outing with thirteen of us in total i.e. seven residents – [...]

Book Sharing 9.5.22

We had a lovely book sharing time looking at Pictures to Share books with staff [...]

V.E Day celebrations – 8.5.22

This afternoon we celebrated V.E Day. We started with a lovely buffet lunch, made by [...]

Godly Play – 8.5.22

This morning, we enjoyed a Godly Play Church session in the conservatory. We sang hymns [...]

Gardening Club 7.5.22

We had an interesting Gardening Club outdoors on the back patio. Good to enjoy the [...]

Favourite Music 7.5.22

We had a few “Dancing Queen” moments in the main lounge this morning listening to [...]

Motion 6.5.22

We had another energetic Motion session in the main lounge this afternoon. This involved war [...]

Cycling Without Age – 6.5.22

Peter was our cyclist today and provided us with three quality rides around Botanical Gardens [...]

Sing along session – 5.5.22

This afternoon we had two sing-along sessions with Vicky, One in the main lounge, and [...]

Frosting cup-cakes – 5.5.22

This morning a few of us sat in the conservatory with Vicky, to decorate some [...]

Smile Pony Therapy – 4.5.22

This afternoon we had a visit from Smile therapy ponies. The white one was called [...]

Home from home – 4.5.22

This morning we had a Home from home session. We try to do this at [...]

World Laughter Day 3.5.22

We celebrated World Laughter Day this afternoon by reading our tongue twisters to each other [...]

Pamper time – 3.5.22

Following on from the hairdresser session, some of us were keen to have a little [...]

Darts – 2.5.22

We had a spare half hour, this afternoon, so Vicky got out the dartboard for [...]

Pin the cigar on Winston Churchill – 2.5.22

This afternoon we had a game of Pin the cigar on Winston Churchill, that Vicky [...]

Empathy doll – 2.5.22

This morning we had cuddles with baby Marcus, our empathy doll. We had such wonderful [...]

Brain games 1.5.22

This afternoon we brain games in the conservatory. Those that took part were, Peggy, Lillian, [...]

Table-top games 1.5.22

This morning we played table-top games in the main lounge. We started with dominoes, which [...]

Fun & Games – 30.4.22

This afternoon we had two sessions of fun and games with Vicky. One session in [...]

Happy birthday Aimee – 30.4.22

We want to wish a Happy Birthday to Aimee, our newest member of the domestic [...]

Music session – 30.4.22

This morning we had a music and sing-along session with Vicky, in the main lounge. [...]

Motion 29.4.22

We enjoyed a lively Motion session this afternoon. Good to have lots of residents and [...]

Cycling Without Age – 29.4.22

Pam had a wonderful cycle around Botanical Gardens, collecting a few different flowers, leaves on [...]

Baking 28.4.22

We had a few willing volunteers from the Conservatory to bake and decorate some chocolate [...]

1950’s Party – 29.4.22

We had a fabulous time listening to our favourite songs from the 1950’s using a [...]

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