Activities at Hilderstone Hall Care Home

Residents with a faith have the opportunity to come together for a session of prayer, hymns, readings and contemplation. 

The local vicar, who normally visits the home on a regular basis, has been emailing in suggestions for short prayer meetings to allow residents a means to continue to express their faith in her absence.  These get-togethers, hosted by the Activities team, have proved popular with residents who take time to discuss their faith, say prayers and listen to bible readings and hymns during the fortnightly meetings. 

At the most recent session, residents talked about charity and listened to the story of “The Rich Young Man” from the Gospel of St Mark. The session ended with the rousing hymn “Onward Christian Soldiers

Residents enjoyed a day of activities themed around the author Roald Dahl.  During the morning, residents reminisced about some of his famous books – fondly remembering reading them to children and grand-children –  such as “The Twits” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, whilst enjoying a selection of chocolates.  The conversation then turned to the television program “Tales of the Unexpected” and the iconic opening title sequence.  This was followed by a reading of his most famous short story – “Lamb to the Slaughter”.

To celebrate International Dog Day staff of Hilderstone Hall bought in photos of their four legged friends for Residents to judge.  It was a hard decision as there was so many cute faces!

After much deliberation the winner was names - 1st came Billy the Jackawawa who is owned by Tracy Oulton the homes Activities Coordinator, 2nd place was awarded to Bella the Chihuahua who is owned by Gemma Birch, Senior carer and 3rd was Riah the Staffie also owned by Gemma.  The residents had lots of fun picking their favourite dogs.

Residents battled it out over a thrilling two day challenge in August to discover which team would be crowned “Summer Quiz Challenge” Champions.

Having picked names for their teams, residents put their heads together to answer a number of general knowledge questions.  The Yawning Experts won overall on Day 1 receiving extra points for knowing a greater number of actors who had played James Bond on film but The Plonkers valiantly fought back on Day 2 to get the highest score on that day. 

Hilderstone Hall Care Home has become a donation and collection point for food and products for The Trussell Trust Food Bank, Stoke on Trent. 

Hilderstone Hall care home is taking a “Whole Home Approach” to the cause inviting residents, their families - during garden visits, employees and villagers to kindly donate to the very worthy cause.

Resident Mary touched all our hearts when she presented General Manager, Liz Walsh with her beautifully handwritten card, letter, creative artwork design & a poem of appreciation. Mary wrote "The whole world might want to send you a special thank you but for the time being you'll just have to do with mine".   The hand made card is a letter of appreciation for all staff at Hilderstone Hall & is of the highest kind stating, "Many thanks to everyone, whatever your job is for making me so happy here. When our friends are out of touch you know just how to make me smile & lift my spirits too, particularly when you give me a vanilla slice and a really hot strong brew"