Activities at Meadowbeck Care Home

Here at Meadowbeck we got into the spooky Halloween spirit of things by creating an autumnal display by painting and carving pumpkins.

In the afternoon residents enjoyed a themed baking session making / decorating cupcakes and biscuits, we had spooky black cats, witches hats, pumpkins and bats.

After a busy afternoon we were happy to see Carol arrive with her trolley with a selection of refreshments and sweet treats on offer.

Some of our residents enjoyed themed quizzes and watching Halloween films, looking forward to their Halloween bingo tomorrow.

We all had a spooktacular time.

Today at our Open Day event residents and team members gave a warm welcome to everyone who visited our friendly home, giving them a tour and meeting Annaliza and Helen our management team.

Our Activities team hosted a cream tea afternoon with a selection of cakes and refreshments on offer including delicious homemade scones made by our talented chef Paul.

We had a wonderful day!

Residents and team members gathered together on our memory lane community to take part in our crafts session for our autumn display and getting ready for Halloween.

The afternoon was very therapeutic with everyone focusing paying attention on what they were doing, whilst praising one another on their painting as they all showed their individual creative skills as they mixed paints with beautiful autumn colours together creating some amazing effects.

Thea, one of our wonderful ladies commented afterwards how she found the session to be very soothing and stimulating for the mind.

A great afternoon was had and the ladies were very helpful in helping Tina clear away at the end.

Today here at Meadowbeck we hosted our Macmillan Coffee Morning to help raise funds and awareness for people living with cancer, a charity that is so close to our hearts.

Residents, friends and families came together from around the home where they enjoyed a selection of cupcakes and delicious treats and we all got involved in fun-filled games.

A special Thankyou to the very talented bakers Maureen, Kaye and Gianina for the delicious cakes, and to all who come along making the morning a great success, so far we have raised a total of £60 for the charity, we will update later of the total amount raised.

This morning we had a lovely drive out in our mini bus and visited Burnby Hall Gardens at Pocklington.

We went prepared for the hot weather with sun cream and sunhats, we had a lovely time walking around admiring the beautifully kept gardens with all the pretty flowers, and we stopped to admire the birds in the Avery.

The ladies enjoyed stopping off around the lake to feed the carp fish (we did get splashed a number of times) like Mary said it cooled us down, and Rose was delighted to see all the Lily pads out in the lake.

We finished off a wonderful morning treating ourselves to lunch in the lilypad café.

Our residents from around the home gathered together to join Maggie for our musical moments session, once again another fabulous afternoon with lots of singing and dancing using fun sensory props whilst shaking their tail feathers with a lot of shimmying going on.

Everyone enjoyed singing along as Maggie played musical instruments, and we had a Dawn French quiz with the theme music from vicar of Dibley.

We had a wonderful afternoon and lovely to see so much laughter and smiles fill the room.