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 [...]

Bingo

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

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 [...]

Theatre themed afternoon

This afternoon Vicky put on the Nutcracker ballet in the main lounge for us to [...]

Pampering

This morning Vicky came around with the pampering trolley. She offered us face masks, cleansing, [...]

Week 6&7 visiting nook

We have just had our 7th week of using our visiting Nook. Here are a [...]

Music session

This afternoon we had a lovely music session with Matt and his friend Jack. They [...]

Snow globes

This morning Vicky made snow globes with us from empty jam jars. (Thank you Peter [...]

Christmas cards and letters from Porter croft school children

Porter Croft school children sent a Christmas card and letter for each of our residents. [...]

Boxing day activities

This afternoon we did an assortment of activities, in between visits. We did arts and [...]

Advent bags

Instead of an advent calendar, Vicky bought some little advent gift bags. Vicky put a [...]

Christmas day

We had a really enjoyable day today with everyone having at least one or two [...]

Opening Christmas cards and letters

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

Fun and games

As it was Christmas eve, we had some fun and games with the Reindeer toss [...]

Pantomime

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

Messages home

Today Helen went round and asked if we would like to send a Christmas message [...]

Christmas crafts.

This morning we did the last part of our window frieze, which couldn’t be anything [...]

Christmas decoration

     

Gingerbread trees

This morning Vicky asked who would like to help us decorate tree shaped gingerbread biscuits. [...]

Christmas Songbirds

This afternoon we had our Christmas Songbirds session, led by Yo Tozer-Loft. Vicky asked who [...]

Decorating Christmas cakes

This morning Vicky asked who would like to decorate the Christmas cakes that we baked [...]

White Christmas

This afternoon we sat and watched White Christmas and most people enjoyed a Hot Chocolate [...]

Christmas Carol Service

This morning we had a small Carol service that the local church was obviously unable [...]

Christmas wreaths

We had a go at making Christmas wreaths this afternoon with some willow wreaths and [...]

Snowball fun

This morning we had fun with the giant snowman that Helen made. Helen and some [...]

Christmas party

Sarah and Claire from Razzle Dazzle came to sing for us, this afternoon, for our [...]

Christmas manicures

Today Vicky went around doing manicures. This included hand washing, sanitizing, nail scraping, trimming, filing, [...]

Music session

This afternoon Roy’s son Matt and his friend Jack came to practice their music ready [...]

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 [...]

Pin the carrot on the snowman

Yesterday morning Vicky painted a snowman picture onto canvas, so that we could use it [...]

Christmas cake Baking

This afternoon Vicky helped us to make and bake some Christmas cake. Those that chose [...]

Christmas Kim game

This morning Vicky played the Kim’s game with us. Vicky chose 8 Christmas objects from [...]

Kirsty’s birthday

This afternoon we celebrated the birthday of Kirsty, our kitchen Manager. We presented her with [...]

Christmas picture bingo and matching game

This afternoon, Vicky got out the Christmas picture Bingo for us to play. We had [...]

Reindeer ring toss

This afternoon Vicky blew up the Reindeer ring toss game, and went around, asking who [...]

Christmas reminiscence

This morning Vicky did a Christmas reminiscence session with us in the dining room. We [...]

Week 5 Visiting nook

We have just had our 5th week of using our visiting Nook. The Nook was [...]

Mildred’s party

This afternoon we had Nicola come to play the cello for us, and help us [...]

Cupcake decorating

This morning did a cupcake decorating activity with us, in the dining room. John, Jenny, [...]

Motion exercise session

This afternoon we had another fabulous exercise session with Zee Zee from Motion Exercise via [...]

Snowman fun

This morning Helen bought in a giant snowman with a head hole like the old [...]

Christmas crafts

We decorated the Christmas tree that we made and painted yesterday and today it was [...]

Manicures

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