Activities at Moreton Hill Care Home
Our home is always full of life, and we can thank our wonderful Activities Coordinators for this. Dedication to creating a unique and interesting activities programme is what sets us apart from other homes. We always take into consideration that some people would prefer to pursue their own interests, which is why our team strive to incorporative activities that cater to a wide range of tastes and hobbies. Our trips out are always fun and exciting as well, and residents are guaranteed to return with stories to tell their loved ones!
Jackie Chillingworth
Hello. I am Jackie, the Lead Activity Co-Ordinator at Moreton Hill. I have worked for Barchester for over 10 years. Now, together with my team and the staff at our beautiful home, our aim is to help all residents live life to the best they can by bringing meaningful and enriching activities into their lives.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Moreton Hill Care Home
Commemorating VE Day
Moreton Hill residents commemorated VE Day over the weekend. We enjoyed reminiscing, Lorna printed off some interesting food rationing advice and recipes, which were inventive as so many foods were not available including sugar. Residents love our rural location and we spoke about how living in the countryside during the war meant they did have fruit and vegetables as well as eggs. Many remembered evacuees arriving to the area.
We all smiled when one resident recalled how his father a local dentist was "paid" in petrol or cigarettes. We are so privileged to hear about these experiences first hand from this amazing generation.
We were very pleased there is no longer a sugar shortage as we greatly enjoyed the Union Jack cake for afternoon tea.
New Singers and New Songs
We had a lovely session with the Melody Makers this afternoon and it was great to have a few new members join – Joyce, Mari and Roger. We also tried out a few new numbers including Summertime and Don’t Cry for Me Argentina. The sun was making an appearance as we were singing Summertime, so we plan to sing that one again!
Another Trip!
Activity Coordinators Lorna and Jackie have had a very busy day with two minibus trips! They have done an amazing job organising these trips to ensure all the residents who wish to have been out and about. These trips will now feature every week as part of the varied activities programme at Moreton Hill with residents putting forward plenty of suggestions of where next!
Moreton Hill in Bloom
After the glorious weather we have had a traditional wet bank holiday today! We took the opportunity to create some beautiful flower arrangements, Moreton Hill is in bloom thanks to our residents' beautiful displays.
Perfect Sunday
It has been a perfect Sunday at Moreton Hill. Residents enjoyed a delicious three course Sunday lunch, accompanied by wine, followed by tea and coffee sat out in the sun, chatting and relaxing.
Tree Crafts
The theme of this week's crafts has been trees. The textures, colours and form of the many varieties of tree can be studied in great detail. Residents selected from a range of leaves to create a clay leaf which we will be decorating next week. We also painted tree silhouettes, adding sprinkles of colour to create blossom both on the trees but also falling. With inclement weather it has been a perfect opportunity to bring the outdoors inside. It is wonderful to be creative, but also these session lead to a wide variety of conversations and interactions amongst the residents.
