Activities at Iris Court Care Home

Iris Courts Gardening Club is begging to become into a full bloom, with more and more residents falling in love with by watching the progress of our hard work blossom. 

With an amazing donation of all planting tools & seeds to grow fruit and veg at the Iris Court Gardens via Ground Work East and their Home Grown Initiative which is designed to bring groups together to build social connections, learn valuable life skills, to boost wellbeing and of course learn about how we can be better connected to nature, whilst learn more about the big issues affecting our environment locally and globally together!. 

Following this amazingly kind donation, some of our gardening club members took a swift visit to local Vanstones gardening centre, to stock up on essentials for our garden and their own gardening space with a popular choice of tomatoes, fuchsias and geraniums being purchased to decorate our wonderful gardens!.

Iris Court marked the Irish Holiday St Patricks with a day full of festivities, with the home adorned in shamrocks to mark the occasion. Residents and Staff Celebrated the occasion!.

The Celebration included a morning of listening to Irish music, whilst eagerly awaiting for the The Davey Academy of Irish Dance to arrive in the afternoon to get St Patricks day in full swing, with plenty of energy and laughter from having the academy and parents in for the afternoon!

with residents saying " It has been a fun day, and how lovely the academy was to have them in with us for the afternoon!" we finished off the afternoon with an Irish quiz whilst waiting for our traditional Irish Supper to be prepared, of potato and leek soup, Iris Stew and of course the option of a Guinness to finish the day!.

We are so happy to announce that we have received the 'Top 20 Came Home 2024' Award from Carehome.co.uk!

We have received this award in recognition that our home is in the top 20 rated care homes in our region, based on published reviews from residents and their family and friends.

Everyone at the home has been working incredibly hard to achieve high standards of care for their residents and are thrilled to celebrate this amazing achievement. Carehome.co.uk is the leading care home reviews website in the UK with nearly 18,000 care homes, 16 million+ visits per year and over 300,000 care home reviews.

A broad selection of friends and families have left glowing reviews of their experiences with the home on the website. To achieve this award is a huge team effort, and we would like to say a big thank you to anyone who left a review and helped us achieve this award.

Residents at Iris Court were treated to some special and unexpected visitors when a number of owls from owl adventures came to visit us!.

Owl adventures aim to rescue injured birds from the wild or when they required care, so it was a very special treat for our residents who embraced their new feathered friends perching on their arm. with the visit being arranged as one of our regular animal therapy sessions, this one defiantly boosted the mood and grew our residents closer together sharing this moment.

With many of our residents saying " It was wonderful to welcome such beautiful birds, the visit provided something completely different and i thoroughly enjoyed the visit and welcome them back. 

Iris Court had the pleasure of welcoming in Gary from North Herts Bee Keepers Association into to join our dementia café and give us a talk on all things bee related, to different species, hives that you can find, different levels of Hobbyist and lastly some delicious honey made by Gary and his bees!. 

The talk was fantastic to reminisce as some of of our residents had previously been members of the same association or kept bee's themselves and still remain friends with some friends in common, which was wonderful to catch up on!. 

At Iris Court we are passionate about residents being able to continue enjoying lifelong hobbies, as well as exploring new adventures whilst living at our home.