Post

Some post arrived for a few of our residents today, mostly for Mildred, but one [...]

The Shows

Many enjoyed listening to Les Misérables and West Side Story today and some were keen [...]

Empathy Dolls

Tracy brought in her empathy dolls today – Tom and Joy, and they were well [...]

Card from Betty & Ebony

Many wanted to read the lovely card Betty had made and sent to us today, [...]

Puppet Fun

Tracy brought in her puppets to the care home this morning, much to the delight [...]

Scrabble

This morning Helen and some of our residents had a really good game of scrabble [...]

Bingo, Jokes, riddles and tounge twisters

This afternoon Vicky had quite a few games of Bingo with the residents who were [...]

Table tennis

This afternoon Vicky got out the table tennis set and had a few games between [...]

Photo Sharing

This morning Vicky and Tracy brought in their wedding photos and went around the care [...]

Guitar Sing-a-long

We had a lovely time this afternoon, energised by a guitar sing-a-long activity led by [...]

Writing Birthday Cards

This morning Vicky went around with Marjory’s birthday card and asked the residents to sign [...]

Manicures and hand massage

This afternoon Vicky came around with the beauty trolley offering hand washing and nail cleaning, [...]

Easter crafts

This afternoon Vicky got out the Easter card decorating kit, Easter egg decorating kit and [...]

Bingo

This morning we played quite a few games of Bingo in the main lounge. We [...]

Karaoke session

This afternoon was meant to be a Songbirds session, so instead Vicky did a karaoke [...]

Pampering session and live concert

This morning Vicky put on a live show of Terry Morgan, on YouTube. He a [...]

Arts and crafts

I set up an arts and crafts activity in the dining room and asked who [...]

Opening Mother’s Day cards and gifts

Opening Mother’s Day cards and gifts together – 22nd March 2020 This morning Vicky handed [...]

Messages home

This morning Vicky went aproached the residents and explained the reason that we aren’t allowing [...]

J J Galway

We had a lovely time with J J Galway this afternoon for a joint birthday [...]

In-house Church Service

We held a lovely, peaceful church service in the small lounge this morning. We started [...]

Baking

Margaret P, Pam C and Mary all offered to help bake a lemon birthday cake [...]

Cycling without age

This afternoon we had a volunteer called Peter offering to do a few trips out [...]

Light Cinema – “Whisky Galore”

We had a wonderful trip out to the Light cinema to see Whisky Galore. The [...]

Irish Tea dance

Five of us squeezed into Steve’s car today and headed off to the Irish Tea [...]

Gardening Club

We had a very enjoyable gardening club this afternoon with Caroline. The residents and day [...]

Baking

Pam, Margaret and Mildred all offered to help with baking today. We made chocolate orange [...]

Little Acorns toddler group

We had a special Little Acorns session this morning! We had Hollie from Pyjama Drama [...]

Graeme Cox

We all enjoyed Olga and Susan’s birthday party this afternoon, with something for everyone in [...]

Lost Chord

Lovely to have Chris on keyboard, Janet as soprano and Pete as volunteer, this morning, [...]

Afternoon Pastimes

Many of us chose to do some reminiscence jigsaws together – one about Spring and [...]

War-time Hits

We had great fun this morning listening to Glenn Miller, George Formby and Vera Lynn [...]

Nicole’s Birthday Party

Nicole’s family arranged a private birthday party for Nicole and asked a friend of theirs, [...]

Motion Promotional Video

We had to do another Motion promotional video as the first one was spoilt because [...]

HCH Memory Cafe

We had our first Memory Cafe event at the Hallamshire Care Home today and it [...]

Baking

Pam C, Jenny (daycare), Valerie L and Olga all took part in the baking activity [...]

In-house Church Service

We held a quiet church service in the small lounge this morning. It was good [...]

Dominoes

Norah, Roy and Margaret Pashley all enjoyed a few games of dominoes with Mary in [...]

Jesus Centre Teadance

Today we enjoyed going to the Tea Dance that Vicky runs at the Sheffield Jesus [...]

Sing-a-long Session

This morning Vicky got out the song sheets and led a sing-a-long session in the [...]

Arts and Crafts

This morning Vicky got out the vase shapes that we sponge painted last time. We [...]

Godly Play

We had another exciting Godly Play (Stories For the Soul) session today in the Conservatory [...]

Kindness Week

We were very pleased to have a visit this morning from the Sheffield University Nursery [...]

Holy Communion

We had another enjoyable Holy Communion Service in the Conservatory this afternoon. It was wonderful [...]

Baking

Quite a few residents wanted to get involved in the baking activity this morning. We [...]

Gardening Club

Today, Caroline brought a lot of different clippings from winter sensory plants for the group [...]

Diamond Club Fun and Games

We had great fun in the lounge this afternoon and very pleased to have some [...]

Pam’s Birthday

Pam Crossland enjoyed a lovely family time to celebrate her 92nd birthday today. She was [...]

Valentines Party

We had another superb Valentines Party this year with lots of family members coming dressed [...]

Violin sing along

This afternoon we had a sing along with Vicky in the conservatory. We had Win’s [...]

Cookie decorating

On Tuesday we baked some heart shaped sugar cookies with Vicky. Today we had a [...]

Valentines arts and crafts

This afternoon we made some paper rose bouquets with Vicky in the conservatory. We struggled [...]

Little Acorns

We had an enjoyable time at our inter-generational toddler group (Little Acorns) this morning, with [...]

Win’s Birthday Celebration

We had such a great time celebrating Win Oliver’s birthday today, with the help of [...]

Valentines arts and crafts

Vicky set up two tables of valentines’ arts and crafts. One table was making heart [...]

Lost Chord

We had a wonderful Lost Chord session in the Conservatory today with Terry on keyboard, [...]

Cycling Without Age

Pamela was offered a ride on the tri-bike, Rhubarb, today and she immediately said, “Yes [...]

Motion

We had a very interactive Motion event this afternoon with Jess leading the session. She [...]

Songbirds

We had such an enjoyable Songbirds session. Everyone had a great time!  We started with [...]

Memory Cafe

We had a much smaller Memory Cafe event due to a few of our volunteers [...]

Birthday Celebration

We had a double celebration today for the birthdays of Connie and Trisha. Beki Austin [...]

Jesus Centre Tea Dance

We had a fantastic time at the Jesus Centre Tea Dance today! We had a [...]

Little Women Movie

We had a pleasant trip out to the Showroom Cinema with Vicky to see Little [...]

Little Acorns Toddler session

We had a very enjoyable toddler group session this morning. We had eight residents attend, [...]

Arts and crafts

This afternoon I cut out some vase shapes and cut up some sponge. We sat [...]

Cycling Without Age

Olga jumped at the chance to go to the Botanical Gardens on the front of [...]

Godly Play

There was a smaller group of us today for Godly Play as some of our [...]

RSPB Bird Watch

Today Helen and Tracy encouraged residents to sit in the window to do the Big [...]

Songs From the Musicals

We spent a lovely afternoon in the main lounge today listening to our favourite songs [...]

Motion Filming

Motion asked us if we would take part in a promotional film for the Motion [...]

Songbirds

We had a fab Songbirds session this morning, led by Yo. The residents who took [...]

Memory Cafe

We enjoyed a walk out on a cold, sunny day to the Parlour Cafe at [...]

Baking

Olga, Margaret Saunders, Pam Crossland and Nicole all enjoyed baking coffee and walnut muffins today. [...]

Cycling Without Age

This afternoon we participated in the Cycling Without Age initiative. The volunteer today was called [...]

Holy Communion Service

We very much appreciated having Frances and Jenny come to the Home to give Holy [...]

Buzz

It was a bright but cold day for our weekly Buzz session. John came for [...]

Pamper Day

Today we had a pamper day. We had a visit from the hairdresser and then [...]

Gardening Club

We had another exciting Gardening club session today, talking about the RSPB and looking at [...]

Little Acorns toddler session

We had a very enjoyable Little Acorns toddler group session this morning. We had six [...]

Sing along session

Vicky, Helen and Krystal lead us in a song session, using the song sheets, dance [...]

Cycling Without Age

Pam was very keen on going out with Janet on the tri-bike this afternoon on [...]

Lost Chord

We had an amazing Lost Chord session today. Roy and Sonia paid us a return [...]

Irish Tea Dance

We had another lively Irish tea dance at the Philadelphia Club today. Steve took Win, [...]

Crucible Tea Dance

We had a fabulous Crucible tea dance this afternoon. Tracy and Andy took Elsie, John [...]

Memory Cafe

We had another fabulous Memory Cafe event today. Great to have Roy’s son, Matt, make [...]

Paul Barrie

Paul Barrie came to sing at Arthur’s birthday party this morning and Arthur’s son Grant [...]

Baking mince pies

Pam C, Mary and Marion Peck were all very keen to help make mince pies [...]

Godly Play

We began the session by singing Christmas carols, led by Tracy on the guitar and [...]

Santa Visit

Many were surprised to see Father Christmas, Mary Christmas and Santa’s Little Helper visit to [...]

Christmas visitors/meal

We had a fabulous Christmas meal prepared by our lovely chef Kirsty and her gran. [...]

Christmas eve shenanigans

We did various activities with Vicky on Christmas eve, including making snow globe magnets, playing [...]

Cinderella Panto Trip

We had a fab trip out to the Lyceum Theatre to See Cinderella. Vicky, Peter, [...]

Christmas Party

We had a fabulous time with the Andrew Watson Quintet (keyboard, drums, sax, clarinet, bass [...]

Christmas Holy Communion Service

We enjoyed a Christmas Holy Communion Service with Tracy playing carols on her guitar. Good [...]

Jesus Centre Tea Dance

We had our Christmas Tea Dance today, at the Sheffield Jesus Centre. Our regular singer, [...]

St Thomas Carollers

We had a lovely evening together singing Christmas carols with the help of our old [...]

Buzz Christmas party

We were very pleased to be invited by Buzz to their Christmas party/meal and Susan, [...]

Hand Bell Ringing

We had a visit from Holy Trinity Handbell Ringers this afternoon. They played us a [...]

St Marks Carols

This evening we had a visit from members of St Marks church, who sang carols [...]

Gardening Club

Caroline brought conifers and other evergreen plants in from the garden, as well as bringing [...]