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Fresh air

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

12
Jan
Brain games

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

11
Jan
Cross stitch

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

11
Jan
Eve’s birthday party

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

09
Jan
Exercise with Motion

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

08
Jan
Manicures

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

08
Jan
Fun and games

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

07
Jan
Massage and relaxation

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

07
Jan
Bingo

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

06
Jan
Reminiscing

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

06
Jan
Arts and Crafts

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

05
Jan
Brain games

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

05
Jan
Collaboration with Twelve trees care home

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

04
Jan
Active minds books

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

04
Jan
Keith’s birthday party

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

03
Jan
Sunday sharing and general sing along

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

03
Jan
Lost Chord music videos

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

02
Jan
Gent’s morning

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

02
Jan
Keith’s birthday

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

02
Jan
Motion live

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

01
Jan
Happy new year

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

01
Jan
Fun and games

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

31
Dec
Manicures

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

31
Dec
Baby doll

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

30
Dec
Aqua painting

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

30
Dec
Bingo

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

29
Dec
Cat therapy

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

29
Dec
Theatre themed afternoon

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

28
Dec
Pampering

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

28
Dec
Week 6&7 visiting nook

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

27
Dec
Music session

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

27
Dec
Snow globes

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

27
Dec
Christmas cards and letters from Porter croft school children

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

27
Dec
Boxing day activities

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

27
Dec
Advent bags

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

26
Dec
Christmas day

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

25
Dec
Opening Christmas cards and letters

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

24
Dec
Fun and games

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

24
Dec
Pantomime

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

23
Dec
Messages home

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

23
Dec
Christmas crafts.

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

23
Dec
Christmas decoration

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22
Dec
Gingerbread trees

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

22
Dec
Christmas Songbirds

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

21
Dec
Decorating Christmas cakes

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

21
Dec
White Christmas

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

20
Dec
Christmas Carol Service

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

20
Dec
Christmas wreaths

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

19
Dec
Snowball fun

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

19
Dec
Christmas party

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

18
Dec
Christmas manicures

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

17
Dec
Music session

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

16
Dec
Christmas card crafts

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

16
Dec
Knitted angels

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

15
Dec
Pin the carrot on the snowman

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

15
Dec
Christmas cake Baking

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

14
Dec
Christmas Kim game

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

14
Dec
Kirsty’s birthday

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

13
Dec
Christmas picture bingo and matching game

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

13
Dec
Reindeer ring toss

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

13
Dec
Christmas reminiscence

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

13
Dec
Week 5 Visiting nook

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

13
Dec
Mildred’s party

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

12
Dec
Cupcake decorating

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

12
Dec
Motion exercise session

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

11
Dec
Snowman fun

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

11
Dec
Christmas crafts

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

10
Dec
Manicures

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

10
Dec
Christmas painting

This afternoon we did the next part of our big Christmas window frieze. A lot [...]

09
Dec
Christmas cards

This morning we finished writing our Christmas cards to family and friends and some of [...]

09
Dec
Mince pie making

This morning Vicky asked who would like to help make mince pies. Peggy, Stephen and [...]

08
Dec
St Marks Christmas cards delivery

This afternoon we had a delivery of Christmas cards from St Marks Church. They kindly [...]

07
Dec
Collaboration with Twelve Trees Care Home

This afternoon we teamed up with Twelve Trees Care Home, via Portal TV. We sang [...]

07
Dec
Category game

This morning Vicky played the category game with us. Today we played it with a [...]

07
Dec
John’s birthday party

Today is John’s birthday and the singer Alan Turner came to help us celebrate, from [...]

06
Dec
Christmas singing and fun

This morning there were a lot of sleepy residents so we had a short Sunday [...]

06
Dec
Singing in the garden

This afternoon Yoyosongshop came to sing for us. They are members of three separate choirs [...]

05
Dec
Christmas cards

This morning Helen bought some Christmas cards in and asked who would like to write [...]

05
Dec
Motion livestream

This afternoon we had a Motion livestream session with Zeezy. We do this by using [...]

04
Dec
Pampering

This afternoon Vicky was offering pampering. The options were cleansing, moisturiser, perfume, hair brushing and [...]

03
Dec
Arts and crafts

This afternoon we started what is going to be part of a big Christmas frieze [...]

02
Dec
Christmas tree decorating

This morning Helen took the small Christmas round  the main lounge on a trolley and [...]

02
Dec
Christmas tree decorating

Today we helped Vicky to decorate the Christmas trees. We put up one in the [...]

01
Dec
Week 4 Visiting Nook

We are going into our fifth week of having our visiting nook. It is going [...]

30
Nov
Songbirds

This afternoon we had a very enjoyable Songbirds session led by Yo-Tozer Loft. We sang [...]

30
Nov
Making paper chains

Over the next few day, we will be putting up the Christmas decorations around the [...]

30
Nov
Motion exercise

We had a brilliant live stream exercise session with Zee Zee from Motion exercise this [...]

27
Nov
Pampering and massage

Today Helen went round each resident in turn, asking who they would like some pampering [...]

26
Nov
Aqua painting

There must be something in the air today because everyone was super sleepy and a [...]

25
Nov
Bingo

This morning we had a few games of bingo with Helen. We started late because [...]

25
Nov
Sing along

This morning we had a sing along to brighten everyone up. There were a lot [...]

23
Nov
Film afternoon

This afternoon whilst assisted visits were going on, we put on the Carry on Doctor [...]

22
Nov
Sunday prayers and singing

This morning we had our usual informal Sunday prayers and singing session. There were quite [...]

22
Nov
Music session

This afternoon Helen got out the bag of percussion and let people choose what instrument [...]

21
Nov
Table top games

This morning Helen got out some table top games that people could play from where [...]

21
Nov
Week 3 Visiting nook

We are going into our fourth week of having our visiting nook. It is going [...]

20
Nov
Motion Livestream

This afternoon we had a Motion session, which was live via the portal TV that [...]

20
Nov
Manicures

This morning Vicky did manicures. She offered hand and nail cleansing, nail clipping and filing, [...]

20
Nov
Hallamshire Tattoo Parlour

Today Vicky became a mobile tattoo artist for the afternoon. Vicky ordered lots of different [...]

19
Nov
Bingo

This morning Vicky led a Bingo session in the dining room. Not as many people [...]

19
Nov
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