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Day to Day Activities At Parkview

Day to day activities at Parkview are varied and down to individual choice, some people enjoy a mind game, quoits or even bubbles which are magical whatever age you are.

It's fantastic the ideas that can spring from the mind of our amazing Activities Coordinator. Katrina found some old cards and they were reworked into beautiful words. The people we care for expressed their thoughts on what made them happy.

Cards of Kindness

February at Bowerfield House

We've had a heart warming month here at Bowerfield House. We held a coffee morning for World Cancer Day, raising money for the Beechwood Cancer Care Centre in Stockport. We enjoyed a fabulous Chinese meal cooked in house by our chef for Chinese New Year.

Celebrating St David's Day at Wyndham Hall, daffodils in abundance! All our residents and staff enjoyed celebrating St David's Day as well as making daffodils and displaying them around the home.

St David's Day

We celebrated Jeans 90th birthday on Friday, she had a lovely day being spoilt with lots of gifts and a beautiful cake made by our wonderful chef Michelle.

Jeans 90th Birthday

Here at Hope Green we love to celebrate everyone's birthday. We like to ask everyone to choose what they would like to do for their big day.

Birthday's At Hope Green

Soon as the weather picked up we were out in the garden playing some ball. We can't wait for the sun to fully come out, roll on spring!

Football in the Garden

There's been lots of smiles and laughter at Clarendon Court.

March At Clarendon Court

An enjoyable and celebrated occasion was held at Ashmead Care Centre on 1st March 2021 for St David’s Day. The theme was Rugby and prior to the day itself, residents were encouraged to make their own Welsh Love Spoon (pictured), an explained of which is below:-

St David's Day

Following on from making daffodils, our residents have worked hard in making this lovely spring meadow for everyone to enjoy and brighten up our days and which Eileen is very proudly showing off.

Spring Meadow

We had a lovely time with our reminiscence puzzles, lots of smiles and laughter. We are looking forward to our next instalment.

Reminiscence Puzzles

Spring Bulb Planting, everyone really enjoyed this activity at Troutbeck.

Potted Bulbs

We are all very busy with our Spring Bulb Planting at Troutbeck. We will be updating our progress and flowering regularly.

Spring Bulb Planting

Celebrating pancake day, our residents really enjoyed pancakes made by our chef. Choice of topping include cream, golden syrup and traditional lemon.

This afternoon at Manorhey our residents enjoyed one of their favourite performers who entertained them with a variety of rock and roll classics via a virtual concert. The residents had a brilliant time dancing the afternoon away with residential friends and staff members.

Rock and Roll

Poppy did some beautiful flower arranging with the residents this afternoon. They helped put together a new tub of flowers for our conservatory. They certainly brighten up the room and are lovely to look at.

Flower Arranging

Valentine's Day At The Moors

We had a lovely Valentine's Day here at The Moors, with residents drawing hearts, making cards and having a lovely lunch with the tables decorated beautifully. Our favourite activity was passing round the balloon and whoever caught it shouted out something they loved.

Shrove Tuesday was a huge laugh here at The Moors! We ate delicious pancakes for lunch and the brilliant chefs even made us some extras to have a bit of fun with! We had pancake 'races', competitions for the highest flip and the best catch just to name a few - even the staff got involved!

Shrove Tuesday

As this week was national spa week we invited our residents to come and enjoy spa treatments of their choice, some of the pamper treatments included wash and blow drys, manicures, hand and facial massages which each resident chose by preference.

Spa Day

Today we have enjoyed mental stimulation word challenge game.

Mental Stimulation

What a beautiful morning in Manorhey garden, looking for our furry friends the squirrels for their daily morning visit. Spring is almost definitely on its way.

A Beautiful Morning

The residents enjoyed the last week having special activities to celebrate Chinese New Year, they were decorating the home with dragon bunting and also created beautiful illustrations that have been displayed around the home.

A Week At Allingham

We at Highfield enjoyed Valentine’s Day with lovely music, karaoke, dance, and a little tea party with variety of Valentine cupcakes. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the day and can’t wait for our next celebrations.

Valentine's Day

Thank you to all the staff at The Westbourne for their hard work and a hearty welcome to our new team members. A special hello from myself, Kathryn Dee and Lisa Kerr as the new Home and Deputy Manager.

A Big Thank You

Birthday Card From The Queen

When Cassie turned 100 she got an amazing card from The Queen wishing her a happy birthday. How wonderful is that?

Happy Birthday Cassie from everyone at Parkview.

Valentine's Day Skype Calls

Happy times at Hope Green as our residents have regular Skype calls with their loved ones. This ladies was extra special as it was Valentine's Day.

Chinese New Year Celebrations At Parkview

Parkview House had a day dedicated to Chinese New Year celebrations.

The first of our daffodils almost completed and ready to make a daffodil field.

Getting ready For Spring

Valentine's Celebration's

The day of love we enjoyed a love filled day with music from none other than Elvis Presley and one of our regular entertainers Sam Jones via a YouTube stream. Reminiscing some of our favourite love ballads, not forgetting a treat of our Valentine's cupcakes.

Today at Bowerfield House we recognised Ash Wednesday, the first day of lent. As we were unable to attend Mass in person we watched in live online instead.

Ash Wednesday

Alice In Wonderland Afternoon Tea

Today at Manorhey we have thoroughly enjoyed an afternoon tea gathering with a spread of mini sandwiches, cakes and pastries and tea in china ware. Residents enjoyed the Alice In Wonderland theme.

To celebrate Chinese New Year, the year of the ox, residents gathered together for a Chinese food tasting. They tried different curries, including sweet and sour chicken, fried rice and noodle dishes. They also sampled our home made spring rolls which were said to be absolutely splendid.

Chinese Food Tasting

The residents enjoyed making pizzas today but they enjoyed eating them more!

Pizza Making

Chinese New Year Celebrations

We have really enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year. We decorated the home and created some beautiful lanterns which we hung around. We had plenty of snacks to try and had fun with arts and crafts and word puzzles.

Pancake Day was a great success! Many residents went back for seconds. The most popular topping was the original lemon and sugar.

We are double celebrating pancake day at Abingdon Court this year! The people living in the home got an early treat with the activities team who went around with their amazing pancake trolley full with a choice of toppings and it went down a treat.

We all love a bit of Bingo here at Abingdon court and we have found one that has a little twist. The bingo we found uses images as well as description which is more engaging for all.

Baking Bingo

The people who live with us really enjoyed creating beautiful silhouette art, the bright colours and wonderfully textured feathers created a great sensory arts and crafts activity for all to enjoy.

Silhouette Art

Pancake Day was enjoyed by all at Ashmead on 16th of Feb. Particular interest was shown by Lumi, Home Manager, ensuring that the culinary quality matched the required standards, all our residents enjoyed their pancakes and we cannot wait for more!

Pancake Day!

Happy Birthday Pam!

Our wonderful Kitchen Assistant Lisa loves making cakes for the residents birthday.

Happy Birthday

We had a lovely pancake day at the home. Staff and residents enjoyed lots of lovely toppings and the residents even had a turn at tossing their own pancakes. We had such fun.

Valentines Day at Kents Hill

The residents enjoyed last week, plenty of different kinds of activities to celebrate St. Valentine's Day.

Valentine Celebrations

Valentine's Celebration's

Lovely day had by residents and staff.

We celebrated Chinese New Year with homemade Chinese food and we listened to oriental music and discussed our Chinese zodiac animal. We discussed that the Chinese New Year is in February to celebrate the New Moon.

Chinese New Year

We celebrated Valentine's Day with chocolates! All the residents received some chocolates and we all talked about what love meant to us from a warm fuzzy feeling inside to being warmed and cared for!

We all decided we love our families and miss them very much.

Valentine's Day