What a lovely time we've been having together as our residents have been considering what their wishes would be as they reflect on the year and look ahead. Group discussion and much thought brought everyone together to think about the things that are important and enjoyable. Our Wishing Tree has now been adorned with stars of wishes which include trips to the seaside, visiting family and even listening to the music from West Side Story. It's been a real celebration of the uniqueness of our residents.

The Hope Green Post Office was open this week and our residents were visiting to post their hand made Christmas Cards. Each resident had spent time carefully making their own card and then enjoyed the fun of a Festive Photo Shoot at our very own Post Office. There was lots of laughter, Santa hats and even some carol singing which rang out down the corridors. We're hoping families will enjoy the special individual photo inside each card. We're sending everyone a very Merry Christmas from Hope Green.

One of our residents in the home, Ann is an ambassador for Bridlington and White Rose Lodge. She has recently been interviewed by Jenni MacDonald for a Channel 5 exclusive for the longest running shop in Bridlington which she hugely enjoyed. On the day of the interview we presented Ann with some Flowers to wish her luck.

Ann joined us in 2020 when she decided to come and retire from her busy life, she is still managing her shop remotely and her shop has reopened after the pandemic lock down and still going strong.

Here at Kents Hill we our ending the year by actively supporting our local food bank.

We have started collecting donations from our staff team, relatives and family friends and we are planning to make our first donation by the end of the week.

We enjoyed a wonderful musical afternoon at Kents Hill, provided by our resident Maureen who played some of our favourite Christmas tunes. It was lovely to watch Maureen play and we all enjoyed the music.

A happy home is something we always offer at Wallace View and our fabulous Domestic team are always singing.  The residents love it and one day they asked if they could have a sing along with the domestic team, which they were honoured to do.

Christmas wreath making at the home ready for Santa coming to visit us.  We started with the round base and added on the ribbons, tinsel and bows which we liked ready to hang on our doors in December.

We had a lovely day in November learning how to play the accordion.  The residents had such a chuckle trying to play this and the sounds were interesting.  We all took turns in trying to press the buttons and play along to some songs we knew.  It was much harder than it looked.

As the winter weather sets in we are hosting more movie afternoons at the home and in November we enjoyed a film of resident’s choice.  We had bags of popcorn and sweets along with a cuppa as we all watched the movie on Brambles and enjoyed reminiscing about when we first seen the film in the old picture houses.

We celebrated Elf Day at Field view and took the opportunity to have our elves set up our Christmas trees in the home and outside of the home for the residents to enjoy.  We even had a wrapping competition where our elves wrapped up Christmas presents as quickly as they could.  We hope they are busy wrapping up all our residents presents.