Activities at Harper Fields Care Home

Lovely trip to Hatton for our residents! We’re so lucky to have our minibus and have Hatton Country World on our doorstep.

We enjoyed looking at the beautiful flowers and having a pit stop in the coffee shop. Residents have seen a few changes and brought back memories from when they were younger!  

Today at Harper Fields we had our fish and chip Friday with a beautiful traditional twist. Our residents loved the idea of having their fish and chips with chip newspaper in a box! 

“This is a nice change, it’s like being at the seaside”- Agnes.

Our hospitality team worked really hard putting it all together and loved seeing the residents' faces when they were placed on the tables. You can clearly see the joy it has brought to them! Well done team!

On Tuesday 3rd June we celebrated Agnes’s 102nd birthday!  

All the staff sang happy birthday to her at breakfast time and at lunchtime, she received so many cards, including cards from other Barchester homes. Thank you so much. She was overwhelmed with how much love and kindness everyone showed! Lots of presents were given to her.

Well done Sonia for her beautiful birthday cake! Looked amazing and Agnes really enjoyed it! Agnes said, “I didn’t think this was a big birthday”. Claire replied, “of course it is you’re amazing and every birthday is big and special” Agnes “really, how amazing?"

What a lovely VE-Day we had for the celebration of 80 years. WOW! The weather was against us yesterday, but we adapted and moved to our concert room. Everyone had a blast! We all sang along to 1940's tunes to remember the war. Residents said how much of a great time they had and talked about it this morning! 

“You did us proud yesterday, a lot of effort went in, and you could really tell. It was lovely to have a room full of people, and my family came”- Agnes

Thank you to everyone in the team that put the effort in yesterday to make it fab. The food and drinks from the hospitality were great! Thank you to Mark James, our singer, for another amazing performance!

What a fantastic day we have had at Spencer’s Retreat, part of The Langdale Trust. So calm and relaxing, our residents loved seeing and feeding the animals, taking in the peace and quiet. 

We saw goats, horses, sheep, pigs, alpacas and tortoises! Beautiful from start to finish. Thank you so much for allowing us to attend your wonderful farm.

Our resident, Lesley, was granted her wish. I asked her if you could go anywhere, where would you want to go? She said to see animals. I said to Lesley we are going to make that happen. She said “really”. Lesley hadn’t been out for a while. We were determined to make this wish fulfilment happen! 

From start to finish, Lesley was really happy. She loved seeing all the different animals, from monkeys to sloths, emus and meerkats. Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park is such a lovely place to visit if you’re ever in Birmingham. Lesley loved the minibus ride there and back and was taking it all in her stride! She said “it’s all so exciting”. I couldn’t be prouder of what we do for our residents to enrich their lives, making it all worthwhile! 

Residents came along to enjoy the day with Lesley, and they said they had a great day! Thank you to our host and wish Champion Charlie and Dementia Champion Joyce for accompanying me. 

Pamper and relaxation afternoon, prosecco and chocolates, hand massages and nails painted, an inspirational movie, quotes from powerful women! 

Happy International Women’s Day to all our women!

"A woman's voice is her greatest power—never let the world silence it."

At the end of every month, we will hold a gents club, where lots of different games can be played, or off out to the pub for lunch. 

Today, the gents refreshed their memories on the game cribbage, drank beer and had a great time with our male staff members! Looking forward to the next one!

We had the students from Brighter Life join us for a pet therapy visit from Prancer the alpaca. Our residents were intrigued by his beautiful appearance and calm nature. 

They loved feeding him and petting him. The Brighter Life Care students did a random act of kindness and made heart-shaped signs and brought bags of sweets for our residents. Thank you so much for your generosity. We have had such a lovely day at Harper Fields.