Activities at Station Court Care Home

We have had a fab-yule-ous-time out and about during the festive period.

From Christmas dances with live entertainment from Santa Mike having us all ‘stepping into Christmas’ and singing and dancing to festive and favourite hits with our local community. We’ve explored magical displays at Azures garden centre and shopped till we dropped, and had a ball at the winter wonderland party with the mind active team, Christmas lunch and live entertainment having us all rockin’ around the Christmas tree!

Across our homes we got into the Christmas spirit of things by joining a festive live virtual experience, led by Des and Kelly from Performing Pets.

Our residents were thrilled to meet the charming furry friends and get up close and personal with the reindeers.

We certainly learnt some interesting facts about the animals and had a fantastic time.

A care assistant at Station Court in Ashington has received a prestigious 10 Year Service Award in celebration of working at Barchester Healthcare for 10 years.

Joann Harris, now care assistant, started at Barchester in November 2013 as a housekeeping assistant before finding her passion on the care team at Station Court. She has worked with residents and their relatives to ensure that their needs have been met over the years. Joann said ‘’I am delighted to receive gifts and recognition from the company for my loyalty, it’s great to be appreciated and I look forward to reaching my 15 year milestone at the company, it does not feel like working when you love your job!.’’

Throughout 2023 we are very proud to have assisted various charities every month at Station Court Care Home.

This month we were delighted to support the Wansbeck Christmas Campaign aiding them on their mission to ensure every child wakes up with a present from Santa this year.

We are blown away from the support from staff, visitors and individuals in our community who have collected and donated toys and gifts for our collection and come together to be able to gift a little boy a Nintendo switch from Santa this year.

It is amazing to see a community come together to make children’s wishes happen thank you to all our Christmas angels.

We were full of pride to join our local community Remembrance service in, Ashington. Listening to the brass band along the street and coming together in the towns memorial garden. Fusilier, David attended in his full uniform making our full home proud of him.

In house we remembered and reflected on remembrance coming together to fall silent, reciting poetry and reminiscing with war memorabilia from Northumberland library. We sang along and danced the afternoon away to wartime classics performed live by musical memories and remembered the fallen together.

‘’At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.’’

We had an explosive day at Station Court celebrating bonfire night this month.

We had fun creating our very own penny for the guy and parading him around our home reminiscing of younger years and fun times as children.

When night time came we had a sparkling evening and headed to the garden to watch fireworks light up the sky with sparklers before warming up around the fire, testing our knowledge with a Guy Fawkes themed quiz, hot chocolates and sweet treats.