What a beautiful day we had here at The Belvedere Care Home. We celebrated World Mental Health Day and invited the wonderful Charlotte Kennedy to sing for us in the garden. Our residents had a great time and towards the end we were up having a good old boogie to We are Family. Days like this are incredibly important for our home and we are firm believers that music does feed the soul and this was definitely what happened.



 

We do love a good bake here at The Belvedere Care Home and one of our favourite things to bake is Scones. We have our baking activity in the morning and then enjoy our yummy scones with with jam and clotted cream for afternoon tea. Sultanas are our usual filler but in this session our residents have decided to try something savoury for our next batch so look out for our for how we do with our homemade cheese scones next week.

Today we went fossil crazy.  As well as watching the online opening of the Norwich Cathedral Diplodocus 'Dippy' Exhibition, we learnt plenty of interesting fossil facts,  played a Fossil Day word game and also coloured-in pictures of ancient sea fossils.

As part of our Family Fun Day, we had some amazing entertainers lined up for all to enjoy. Firstly we were joined by Matt from Abingdon Music Centre. Matt has run some virtual singing sessions with us in the past, so we felt it would be lovely to invite him to join us in the flesh and meet those who he had been working with face to face! It wasn’t long before Matt had us all singing along to our favourite tunes.

On Saturday 25th of September we were finally able open the gates to our garden and invite all family and friends to our huge end of summer celebration, and boy was it a hoot!

An arts and crafts session painting some rainbow hand autumn trees. Everyone living in the home who joined in with this session really enjoyed comparing the size of their hands, along with everyone’s unique shape🍁🌳

Making these were great fun and we created a lot of mess. So cheap and simple to do. We purchased magnetic strips from a local craft shop. These make lovely gifts which we will be gifting to family and friends.

Congratulations to our Super Nurse – Alina, who was presented with a gift card and some of her favourite flowers in recognition of her nomination as a finalist in the category of Nurse of the Year at this year’s MMCG Care Awards.  Well done Alina, we are all so proud of you and the recognition of your continued care, commitment and dedication to everyone living with us at Kents Hill.

What a lovely relaxing afternoon our residents had creating such wonderful pictures.

It may be raining outside, but the sun is always shining in Buckingham House.

We decided to try something a little different for our arts and craft day. We took to the gardens and began searching for some pebbles and small rocks to decorate. We had so many inspired designs and the residents have decided to sell their creations at our upcoming winter fete.