Our stories

Despite national lockdown our activities team are still able to engage in individual activities with our residents - playing scrabble, creativity with feathers and completing jigsaws. Or just enjoying some goodies! 

With the beginning of a new year we decided to introduce new ideas within activities. One of the ideas discussed alongside residents in an activities meeting, was to begin a weekly relaxing art session.

Team Nights Court were bursting with excitement on Thursday 28th January. Our favourite Knights court couple Mrs and Mrs V were celebrating their 65th Wedding Anniversary. The Activities team had to think outside the box.

We have been discussing the history of Chocolate and our own local brands. Lots of lovely Bournville chocolate was available which was Lillian's favourite. 

Chocolate celebration, lots of conversation which is the nicest and our favourite brands.

With a fair few of our residents hailing from Scotland, Burns Night was a big deal here at The Moors! We did a Scottish themed quiz, listened to some highland music and had a lovely traditional meal, black pudding all around!

The management and staff at Knights Court Nursing home were truly humbled and touched by the kind gesture of a former relative of residents that had used our services several years ago.

Residents at Thorntree Mews taking part in The January Challenge, 15-20 minutes everyday through January. Residents feeling great and enjoying the morning routine. Certificates for all who complete. 

Last week we had the pleasure and privilege to celebrate another birthday! We celebrated the birthday of our youngest resident, who as you can see from her cake turned 21 (again) on Friday!

The residents of The Belvedere have each received this lovely donation from Shrimad Rajchandra Love and Care. They have enjoyed snuggling into their fluffy scarves. Thank you! 

Friday 8th January ... Elvis Birthday! We have some big fans within our home so we couldn't miss the Kings birthday. We dressed up, sang and danced to all of his songs and enjoyed some classic American snacks. 

We know that music has many positives including better health through the enjoyment of listening, dancing and signing. We don't usually colour coordinate the musical instruments to our clothing though! 

Here at Belvoir Vale we have a new staff member join us today! She saw how busy and hard working our staff are and wanted to help us out, so we got her one of our shirts and put on her PPE and off she went monitoring the floor, making sure the staff were doing all of their jobs.

One of our residents enjoys poetry so we went through all the books she has and chose ones that she can remember and recite. She likes in particular ones that she knows well and often recites them. This gives her a sense of achievement. 

We have been donated beautiful sensory hand knitted blankets for our residents and we would like to say a big thank you all at the Leyton village craft group.

The new visiting pod at Croft House Care Home has been created so that residents can enjoy a window visit from their loved ones. 

Today we made some bird feeders to place in the garden. The residents helped tie knots in the string and advised me on where to hang the feeders. There was also a bird identifying quiz. The residents knew some of the birds straight away and debated on others.

The staff enjoyed coming in their Christmas jumpers. The residents enjoyed the different outfits. 

An enjoyable afternoon of painting tropical fish suncatchers for an upcoming event. Lots of brightly coloured fish are now ready for our next theme day. 

We had a packed house for this afternoons movie 'We Bought A Zoo'. 

Residents were keenly gathering straight from lunch to watch this lovely true story