Activities at Springvale Court Care Home

One of our lovely residents expressed her wishes to go out for a walk and a cuppa. so we grabbed our coats, wrapped up and headed out. We walked down to Wrekenton where we stopped past Greggs for a cuppa, we had great chats about our lives and especially our previous interests.
This was a lovely example of a one to one session which brought our resident lots of smiles. She even said "Its been such a nice morning out, I hope we can do this again?"

We loved this activity so much we just had to share it with you all.

So we discovered not many of us like the messiness of painting so Taylor came up with a solution. We blobbed the paint on our paper then placed a clear plastic layer over the top which allowed us to move and manipulate the paint underneath to create a really cool effect.

The residents really had fun doing this. They like the way they could see the paint and how it was moving and mixing with the different ways they pushed it.

After doing it all one resident told me, “These would be great as a calendar”. So we got some calendar tabs and stuck them on. They look quite good don’t they?

You may have seen the recent post with Taylor our activities coordinator who received her How fit ambassadors certificate. How fit is a programme which encourages gentle exercising with the aim to help prevent falls.

Our residents love it! Amanda from Age UK Gateshead came along to deliver a session and also do her time checks for residents seating to walking times. All the residents get stuck in and have a right laugh whilst doing so.

This is something which is implemented into our weekly activity schedule.

Our helpers have been decorating the home just in time for Christmas. We pulled our 5 Christmas trees out of storage and began the massive task of putting them up and decorating them. We did have some help from the Leam Rangers girls team who did a fab job of putting some of the decorations up, all followed by some hot chocolate and rocky road.

Our amazing kitchen staff surprised one of our residents when they all came along for a visit.

Our lovely resident was in the Elf week spirit with her elf top on. She was delighted when the staff came and surprised her in full Elf gear. They had a previous chat about the festive period and how all LOVE Christmas time… so when the staff took time out of their day to go and visit it really made her happy.

She told us “it’s made my day, everyone looks great”. This put a smile on her face but also the kitchen staffs faces. It really is the little things.

Residents have really been enjoying the baking sessions being held here at Springvale Court. We have done a few recently, but this is because the residents are interested in it so we have accommodated through person centered care.

All activities done through Life Enrichment stems from Barchester values, RESPECT, INTEGRITY, PASSION, EMPOWERMENT and RESPONSIBILITY. During this activity all five values were met, each resident got involved and some even tried new things.

A great baking session was had. We created some lovely cookies and decorated extras so we had enough for the Tea trolley round.