Activities at Lawton Manor Care Home

We celebrated Peggy’s 90th birthday together with a delicious afternoon tea and a beautiful homemade chocolate orange flavoured sponge cake made by our hospitality team.

Peggy spent the morning opening her cards and presents with staff and resident friends.  Peggy received a magnificent Fortnum and Mason hamper from her Son.  Staff at the home presented Peggy with a beautiful bouquet created by florists "Flower Passion" in Alsager.

Peggy really enjoyed her very special day and was overwhelmed when her Son visited in the afternoon to present her with a "This is your Life" book and a rose plant.

Staff at Lawton Manor were delighted when colleague, Lydia completed her training to become a Care Practitioner, this new role which will enable her to support nurses in the home.

Lydia was presented with flowers at a celebration in the home to mark their achievement.

The Care Practitioner role has been introduced by Barchester Healthcare, the organisation that runs the home, in order to further develop talented care staff and enable them to give more support to the nurses working at the home.

We toasted the Bard whilst celebrating Burns Night over a tradtional delicious supper of Haggis Neeps and Tatties with a Whiskey Sauce followed by Cranachan with Scottish raspberries.  The evening gathered pace with a friendly group to share some poetry and listen Scottish Music.  We of course had night caps by way of a wee dram.

The residents of Lawton Manor enjoyed a relaxing morning reading the papers and catching up with current affairs on their weekly newspaper review session.  This week’s discussion included a selection of all the news from a variety of papers whilst enjoying some extremely tasty cupcakes kindly donated by

BLIS cakes | Cakes For All Occasions.  Thank you to BLIS cakes, they were delicious!

Lawton Manor Care Home in Church Lawton have teamed up with Alsager Highfields Primary School for a newly launched pen pal scheme, connecting residents within their homes with creative writing pupils.

Residents of Lawton Manor care home, which is run by Barchester Healthcare, have written replies to letters received from the student children of different ages at the School and have started to make new friends within the inter-generational scheme.

Letter writing, which is part of the school’s creative writing curriculum has covered many topics from Christmas plans, favourite local walks and pet animals.  Some children wrote that they wanted to write to “Cheer you up” and “To put a smile on your face” and they certainly did that, for which we are very grateful!

A Care Practitioner at Lawton Manor in Church Lawton near Alsager has received a prestigious Long Service Award in celebration of working at Barchester Healthcare for Ten years.

Sam Watkins, started at Barchester in December 2010 and has worked with residents and their relatives to ensure that their needs have been met over the years.