Chestnut Court were celebrating after reaching the finals of the national Care Home Heroes Team Award.  The award run by the respected industry publication, Care Home Professional, recognised, "...the care professionals who pulled together as a team to not only ensure the safety of their clients, but also to support each other’s wellbeing during a time of crisis.

We began a sporting championship this month, starting with darts. This enabled residents to become competitive in their gaming which many appeared to thoroughly enjoy. There is a respectful quietness when each player is throwing their darts and the room participates in adding up the score of the darts thrown. There were five rounds of three darts for each person and at the end of every session the scores were taken in and the winner of the days championship was announced winning themselves a winners certificate.

Residents enjoyed looking through old pictures of the local areas, old soaps and spinning tops. A lovely afternoon reminiscing.  

Croft House are looking forward to Christmas and lots of activities in the run up to Christmas day with many arts and crafts sessions to look forward to. Please click on the below newsletter for further details including information on our raffle. 

December Newsletter.pdf

Julie our activities lady has made this fabulous cake as a roast dinner. It's amazing with the detail of the vegetables, roast potatoes and the chicken more than the wow factor. Troutbeck residents loved pouring chocolate gravy over the cake that was in a cake gravy pot, can you believe it! Bake off doesn't even get close to this brilliant cake - well done Julie.

It was wonderful to see the men at The Westbourne so enthusiastic about the fitting of a new kitchen. Conversation about DIY successes over the years and a few disasters too whilst watching the kitchen being fitted and recognising many of the tools in the tool box! Watching men at work was a definite success!

We celebrated Guy Fawkes Night/Bonfire Night with fireworks at River View. 

Alan Moore poem goes as the traditional rhyme " Remember,  Remember, the fifth of November The Gunpowder treason and plot. Should ever be forget." 

The River View staff dressed in Neon to give more colour throughout the day.

Winter brings the festive season and the activities team have a jam-packed winter and seasonal activities calendar coming their way.  

To begin with, the treats trolley had variety of different hot chocolate flavours on offer and as the residents are huge chocolate lovers, they really enjoyed it. 

Biscuit decorating  

The residents love a tasty treat and biscuits are a hit among them all. Kirsty and Mona the activities coordinators decided to encourage residents to decorate their own biscuits.

It is very important for us at Abingdon Court to keep our residents happy and fulfil all their wishes. So the activity team, Kirsty and Mona made a Wishing Tree.  The residents make a wish, write it onto a leaf and hang it on the tree. The residents love the idea and the opportunity for their wishes to come true.