Activities at Moreton Hill Care Home
Our home is always full of life, and we can thank our wonderful Activities Coordinators for this. Dedication to creating a unique and interesting activities programme is what sets us apart from other homes. We always take into consideration that some people would prefer to pursue their own interests, which is why our team strive to incorporative activities that cater to a wide range of tastes and hobbies. Our trips out are always fun and exciting as well, and residents are guaranteed to return with stories to tell their loved ones!
Jackie Chillingworth
Hello. I am Jackie, the Lead Activity Co-Ordinator at Moreton Hill. I have worked for Barchester for over 10 years. Now, together with my team and the staff at our beautiful home, our aim is to help all residents live life to the best they can by bringing meaningful and enriching activities into their lives.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Moreton Hill Care Home
Intergenerational Activities
It is great when different age groups get together – so many stories to share and things to learn. We have loved the visits of the toddlers from Kiddibops and also the pupils from Cashes Green school. Our residents have been teaching the older children some of their favourite songs and the children have been getting everyone to sing along with them. ‘Head, shoulders, knees and toes’ always gets people laughing and having a go. We also play games with our parachute and of course it is useful to have youngsters who can crawl underneath and retrieve all the ball.
Good Energy!
Another new activity to add to our range. Jarla, a local yoga instructor has started giving lessons to us twice a month. Yoga can be seated or standing and is great for relaxation and improving our core stability and flexibility. Not only is it a good workout but it is great fun too! The yoga also complements our other exercise classes – G Fitness with Martha three times a month and of course our very popular in house Oomph music and movement sessions!
Fresh Air and Fun
With the warmer weather upon us our minibus trips out have started up again. Surrounded by beautiful countryside and places of interest there is always lots to see and do in this part of the Shire. Our residents often come up with suggestions of where to go and we also have a weekly ‘ Make My Wish Come True’ where the wish is often to go out somewhere special. This time it was Roger’s name that came out of the hat and he asked to be taken out for tea and for a look around a local garden centre.
Other trips out this year have included a drive down to Arlingham to see the River Severn just after the highest bore had passed through and also trips out to see the spring flowers and spot the newborn lambs in the fields.
On the agenda and coming up we have a trip to the nearby Javelin Park incinerator. We had to book this over a year ago as believe it or not this is a really popular and interesting place to visit. Well, you can’t say we don’t have variety on our trips!!
Cutting Edge Style
As well as lots of fun, games, entertainment and laughter at our home, many residents enjoy one or more of our pamper sessions on offer. Our wonderful hairdresser Annette has been working at Moreton Hill for just over 15 years and has her own salon on the premises where she can wash, cut, blow dry and style our residents’ hair. There is nothing nicer than having someone else do your hair to make you feel relaxed and pampered. Annette loves chatting with all her customers and is really a part of our family. She is also happy to do a manicure and soothing hand massage. Anything to make our ladies and gents feel super special!
Fish & Chips Friday Special
Everyone at Moreton Hill looks forward to Friday lunchtimes at the home because after the regular ‘Oomph’ Exercise Class in the morning the residents enjoy a pre-lunch sherry at the Sherry Social followed by fish & chips. At the request of Iris, Chef Stuart, made it an extra special occasion this month by wrapping the fish & chips in newspapers. It was a great conversation piece with everyone re-calling times at the chippy in their local towns or villages and holiday by the sea in all kinds of weather. One resident, Valerie, even brought along her bottle of vinegar to add to the authentic taste!
Pancakes & Roses
With Shrove Tuesday and Valentine’s Day back to back this year, our residents were kept very busy with preparing for and enjoying the two days. In the run up to Shrove Tuesday a poll was taken to determine the favourite topping for the pancakes. It was the traditional lemon juice and sugar that won the vote. Before, however, the residents got to taste the pancakes cooked by Connor and Stuart in our kitchen we had a few games. Tossing the pancakes was a challenge that everyone enjoyed and the winner for the most flips was Vivienne. Most of the pancakes did end up on the floor and went straight into the bin. Luckily our chefs had cooked up a good supply for everyone to eat at lunchtime.
Valentine’s Day saw staff and residents dressing up in their best floral outfits and wearing red. A flower arranging class run by local florist Katherine showed our residents how to make beautiful wraps of single red roses which were then given out to residents in bedrooms and displayed around the home. On the morning of 14th we decorated Valentine cookies for tea and made individual gift wrap boxes for friends and families. We ended Valentine’s Day with a poetry afternoon. The theme of course was ‘Love’.
