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The sun was shining today, so we had a lovely trip to the ice cream shop and then the park. The residents all enjoyed their favourite flavour of ice cream and once we had finished we made our way to the local park. The park was busy with dogs and their owners.

We decided to create an Easter wreath in our reception to welcome everyone visiting the home. Everyone is so amazed to see how creative and lovely the wreath is, especially the resident’s relatives.

Our little bunny saying, “Happy Easter Everyone!”.

Our craft club is always looking at different ways of being creative and we were delighted with the results of our Rock Painting. Residents decided they would like to use red white and blue colours so the rocks could be used throughout the year in the celebrations of the Queens Platinum Jubilee.

The residents enjoyed many different activities to celebrate one of the most important days at the Grand National, Ladies Day.

The Grand National is the most famous of British Horse races. It was first run in 1839 and is a race over distance of 4 miles and 2 and a half furlongs. There are 30 jumps.

Bowerfield House would love to wish everyone a very Happy Easter. We celebrated with dressing up in an Easter Hen outfit which made all residents giggle and every resident and staff member enjoyed an Easter Egg.

Acorn House are over the moon with the recent Health Watch report which followed after an unannounced visit, care home manager Cherise Homer-Beck said we are so happy with the report feed back and really pleased with some of the kind comments made to the health watch inspectors by staff, visitors

The Alzheimer's Society's April challenge is to complete a total of 3,000 squats during the month.

We've been preparing the home with Easter decorations, including bunting outside and in. The residents enjoyed putting together Easter baskets ready to be filled with sweet treats and decorating our Easter branches with eggs, making a wonderful colourful display.

Bowerfield House have planted a beautiful tree called Malus for the Queen`s Platinum Jubilee. Malus is standing proudly in the front garden, when it grows we will have beautiful pink flowers plus yummy apples that the chef can pick and make a apple sauce.

At Ashfield Court we looked over lots of books and shared all the memories of walking that some of the residents had done!

Everyone enjoyed taking part in Manorhey's Got Talent by showing off their singing voices. Everyone had lots of fun with one another, duetting and dancing to their favourite tunes!

In preparation for our St Patrick's Day party we decorated the lounge/dining hall with balloons, banners and lots of other fun decorations.

1 week to go!

Maria Mallaband & Countrywide Care Awards 2021

Last week we launched our new Hope Green Newsletter which created much interest between staff and residents. It was sent digitally to families too encouraging them to get involved, and we received feedback and thanks.

As River View continued their virtual holidays, our next stop was Portugal. Today was a 'flip flop' day for sure.

Chip Buttys all round at Hope Green, as part of our regional competition to find the best Chip Butty the aim was for our chefs to be as creative as possible. We had a brilliant time tasting different variations on the traditional chip butty.