Activities at Cherry Trees Care Home

Just like the rest of the country Cherry Trees residents have been waiting patiently for months to get their hair professionally styled. so we are so very happy to welcome back our hairdresser to our onsite Salon. Residents have been very great full and would like to thank Jo from Activities after doing a wonderful job keeping the residents esteem needs met with their weekly hairs needs, but she would agree that it is wonderful to see the hairdresser back in the home again, with a-bit more normality into the home again.

Today we celebrate the anniversary of the birth of nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale, also known as International Nurses Day, by acknowledging our dedicated and hard working nurses at Beautiful Cherry Trees care home.

This year, more than ever, we are hugely indebted to all our staff members, and we are incredibly proud to applaud their extraordinary efforts and commitment, on this special day of recognition.

International Nurses Day is a day to give thanks for the dedication of caregivers everywhere, who go above and beyond the call of duty to deliver extraordinary care and support. Thank you.

Residents at Cherry Trees have been enjoying VE Day celebrations all day. We had two amazing performances by the fantastic Phoebe from Silver Belles Music. She sang all the classics and the residents enjoyed singing along.

Also, as part of the VE Day celebration,s we had some delicious cupcakes, which were made by our lovely chef, Ashat, and Activities Coordinator, Rachael, dressed up as a land girl and made this beautiful window display of a Royal British Legion Tommy figure to help us commemorate all those involved in the war effort. 

We all had a lovely day and had wonderful conversations about the past and remembering the celebration on VE Day in 1945.

We hope everyone else had a wonderful day too!

As part of Barchester's life Enrichment programme, staff and residents at Cherry Trees enjoyed an afternoon of reminiscing and celebration, as Queen Elizabeth II turns 95, marking a significant milestone for the monarch.

The activities team put out the fine China, decorated the home, and our lovely Head Chef, Ayshat, prepared an afternoon tea with fresh salmon/cucumber sandwiches and homemade scones with jam, and not forgetting the clotted cream.

Residents enjoyed reminiscing as they watched the Queen's biography and life story. Celebrations were more muted this year as the occasion falls only days after the funeral of her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh.

Like many others across the country and around the world, we are sending our warmest wishes to Queen Elizabeth II for her 95th birthday. I know this birthday will be difficult, and our thoughts continue to be with her and the entire royal family.

We’ve all been through such a difficult time and this feels like such a big step on the way to getting back to some normality.

Now that everyone in the home has had both doses, we can start to work towards getting life in the home back to a new normal, but we know there is a lot of work to do in order to get there.

There is such a sense of relief. We are all so pleased to have had both doses of the vaccine.

It will help to keep our residents safe; we know there is still a long road ahead of us, but this is a big step towards getting back to some sort of normal.

Easter is a busy time of year every year and this year was no different. We started the Easter festivities off with a virtual Easter wreath making workshop, held by the wonderful Joanna from White Ivy Flowers in Alcester, who supplied us with some amazing greenery and flowers and talked us through what we were using and how best to arrange them.

On Easter Sunday, the residents enjoyed watching the BBC Easter service, which featured reverend Justin Welby sharing his Easter message of hope and resurrection in a joyful celebration, live from the stunning setting of Canterbury Cathedral.

Residents enjoyed this with a delicious hot cross bun and, in the afternoon, we went a bit more local with a virtual service from the fantastic Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Easter was a lovely time at Cherry Trees and everyone got to enjoy a delicious bit of chocolate as well.