Activities at Glebefields Care Home

Glebefields care home residents and colleagues wish to congratulate Admin Assistant; Dinesh Kumar on receiving Employee of the Month for January 2023.

Dinesh has been nominated by his colleagues, and the residents for his amazing work, delivering the very best customer service. He is one among the famous staff at Glebefields who is known by every resident's and their family. He is their to support or help anyone in need.

Home Manager; Nisha confirmed, "Dinesh is such a hardworking staff, always happy to support her colleagues and understands the needs of every resident and their family living at Glebefields. We presented Dinesh with a £25 voucher and chocolates as a special 'thank you' for his continued hard work and dedication to all at Glebefields care home.

Well done Dinesh, we all hope you enjoy your chocolates and voucher, and the well deserved Barchester accolade.

We all wish to keep ourselves healthy and fit and the same goes with our residents too. Our residents enjoy doing exercises in the morning. We had a live exercise session which was on the Oomph platform. Residents were enjoying and doing the exercises. They were following the instructor and were performing the exercises.

Marlene, Pam and Frieddel were happy after doing the exercises. They were feeling good and they felt relaxed.

Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day is the day before Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent), observed in many Christian countries through participating in confession and absolution, the ritual burning of the previous year's Holy Week palms, finalizing one's Lenten sacrifice, as well as eating pancakes and other sweets.

Today we are celebrating Pancake Day at Glebefields Carehome. Our residents had a wonderful day with activities related to Pancake. They made their own pancake and decorated it with cream, chocolates and enjoyed the taste of it.

Pam, Helen, Maira, Frieddel, Bert enjoyed the pancake flipping competition. Pam's son Mike also participated in the pancake flipping competition.

Please join us in wishing our sweet resident; Sylvia a very happy 84th Birthday!

Sylvia loved blowing the candles on her birthday cake. The cake was made by our chef Andy. Everyone joined together and sang Happy Birthday to her, she simply loved her cake and gifts.

We hope she had an amazing day... Many happy returns from all at Glebefields.

Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a Christian feast day honoring one or two early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine. Through later folk traditions, it has become a significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions of the world.

We celebrated Valentine's day with our residents and their loved ones at Glebefields. Weeks hard work came to an end, residents prepared lots of bunting, wreath, paper crafts, Valentine tree, cards and many more interesting valentine's things. It was so happy to see them enjoying the entertainment by Sparky and Sprite who sang classic love songs which were visited down the memory lane for our new resident Robert who thoroughly enjoyed the show.

We are privileged to have couples living with us, hence we took this opportunity to surprise them with valentine's special afternoon tea. Millie and John, Angela and Mick, spent special moments with her husbands whereas David and Christine had a special dine in their room. All of the residents were presented with red rose and a bag of heart shaped chocolates with a poem written by Kay our activities coordinator.

Staff and residents have been celebrating National Pizza day with great love and interest. We thought of celebrating the day by making the pizza we love with the choices of the toppings we relish. It was so much fun to watch them try making the Pizza by rolling them and even trying to swing in the air like pro which was delightful to watch. This gave them the taste of a different cuisine and also gave them the opportunity to be involved in making their own meal.

Most of our residents are pizza lovers and it was our residents and our Admin Assistant Dinesh who was Pizzaiolo (Pizza Chef). Dinesh demonstrated how to make pizza and residents followed him. All the residents were so happy to make their own pizza with the toppings they like the most. All the ingredients were donated by Papa Johns, Banbury. Residents loved the final outcome of their hard work and yes the pizza was very tasty and we all enjoyed it.

Bert, a resident at Glebefields said, “I really liked making the pizza for myself!! It was really a fun filled task from rolling the dough to choosing our own favourite toppings.”