Activities at Wimborne Care Home

Wimborne was joined by the wonderful Alice from Applewood entertainment who took us through joyful Christmas singing and music fun. All the favourite songs were sung and all the staff family and friends were up dancing with our residents. There was so many smiles and lots of laughter could be heard throughout the home all day really bringing home that this is the most wonderful time of the year.

We joined in the Barchester Christmas cake making competition with our head chef Hayden leading the way with our tree design and our residents hand rolling the red berries for the tree. With the green pouring glaze and our sparkly star donning the top of the tree it really brought our cake to life and everyone enjoyed eating it even more with a glass of mulled wine or two and sharing our Christmas memories.

Seeing all the Christmas decorations, gifts and seeing the hustle and bustle around the shops is all part of the Christmas season. Throughout the month we have been heading out to join in the festive fun but the favourite by far was heading to Keydales garden centre for their Christmas experience seeing living reindeers and their amazing Christmas decorations really transported us into a winter wonderland bringing back lots of memories from Christmas shopping for all their children and their families. 

Wimborne Care Home is known as the musical care home of Hayling Island, everyone in the home is always singing their favourite songs. We then decided to invite in the famous Hayling Huggers to come and perform for our musical residents. We invited in all our friends and family as well as the local communities to enjoy this special performance. They started out singing feel good classics like the Beatles and George Formby which are some favourites here at Wimborne before moving on to some Christmas tunes. One of our residents Joan got to take centre stage to sing her favourite festive song We Wish you a Merry Christmas and this kept her smiling all night long. The Hayling Huggers joined us for homemade Victoria sponge, tea and a chat after their performance. We can’t wait to see them again!

This is a very important day for our residents here at Wimborne. One of our residents Ivy has vivid memories of this time and wanted to share her stories with everyone. Once Ivy started sharing her stories it sparked so many memories for our other residents here and we spent the morning reminiscing their wartime days. A group of us headed out to our local memorial site to lay down some poppies and pay our respect to those who sacrificed their lives for our freedom. The afternoon turned into all of us enjoying and singing to the best war time tunes and giving our best Vera Lynn impressions. We finished the day with a classic cream tea with homemade scones with cream and jam and a selection of yummy treats.

We asked our residents how they remembered spending bonfire night and they said the most important part is sparklers and hot chocolate. We took part in many activities leading up to the big day from creating our very own guy Fawks for our bonfire to trying our hand at creating firework art pieces for our bedrooms. During one of our resident meetings one of our residents Barry requested burgers and chips so we decided to incorporate this into our bonfire celebrations. Starting the night with a guy Fawks quiz we then enjoyed tasty beef burgers with caramelized onions and chips. We then put on our warmest coats, gloves and hats and headed out to our court yard for hot chocolate with all the toppings and lit up our sparklers.