Activities at Station Court Care Home

With the winning buzz still in the air of Newcastle United latest wins, staff and NUFC fan residents from Barchester’s Station Court care home, in Ashington had a fantastic time visiting St James Park where they all enjoyed joining the clubs memory café.

Residents and staff had a brilliant time at the home of the Magpies, They took tours of the displays of the club through the years before meeting Pop Robson at the clubs memory café who gave a witty, interactive and fascinating talk on his time playing centre forward for Newcastle United in 1962- 1971 and sharing stories of winning the second division title and the ’69 fairs cup. Along with special guest, Bob Moncur captain of the club in the 60s.

Station Court Care Home in Ashington have hosted a whole week of reminiscing and fundraising events to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Society during their Alzheimer’s awareness week.

Staff, residents and family members took part in a sponsored memory walk and wheel through Ashington town, wearing blue with forget-me-nots painted on their faces. From ages 1 to 102 years old taking part all in a bid to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Society. Bringing back memories of Ashington in its hey-day and good times spent at central hall, the arcade and the park modern school.

Wow! What a jam packed week of fun we have had travelling down memory lane at themed days throughout our Alzheimer’s awareness week and raising funds for the Alzheimer’s Society.

We brought the seaside indoors on Monday for a day of reminiscing family days out and vacations with sand therapy, virtual travels, sharing photographs from way back when and having a ball playing seaside themed games and of course having 99 ice creams!

On Tuesday we had a musical memories themed day and had fun dressing as movie stars and singing along and dancing to live entertainment from the brilliant Michaela at her songs from the shows performance and movie screenings of our favourite musicals

On Wednesday we travelled back to the 60s, 70s and 80s bringing back memories of childhood days with sweet tasting, interactive slide-shows, games, music and playing our very own play your cards right!

On Thursday our staff dressed up in themed outfits and our residents were dressed to impress with head gear ready to shake, rattle and roll at our through the decades party with live entertainment from the brilliant Chris Gilly performing songs from the 50s to the 90s!

On Friday our staff, residents and family members wore blue and took part in a sponsored memory walk and wheel through Ashington town, with our residents remembering what used to be and the change in our little town.

On Saturday our gents looked back at pit days and home life with memorabilia items from our local museum bringing back many fond memories of football days and working life

We ended our week on a high on Sunday when our whole home took part in a 50s themed high tea, with our baking club ladies making delicious pineapple upside down cake, our craft club creating centrepieces and decorations and our head chef creating a scrumptious spread for us all to indulge

We had a ‘De Pelos’ day at our Mexican themed day celebrating Mexican Independence day.

We took to our armchairs for virtual travels across Mexico, taking a journey through Mexico’s beautiful country and top cities, heightening our experience with Mexican scents taking us on a sensory journey and sharing interesting facts and friendly competitive quiz as we took the trip across the world.

We made and played themed games such as pin the tail on the donkey, had fun performing our very own hat dance to traditional music and tested our knowledge guessing Mexican lingo phrases before joining all our amigos for a Mexican themed feast of tacos and fajitas with sides of Mexican rice, salad and nachos created by our head chef. Taking our taste buds to the country too.

Our ladies had a fabulous afternoon out on our mini bus visiting Newbiggin-By-The-Sea. They indulged in an afternoon tea of delicious cakes, sweet treats and cream scones with scenic seaside views in the Latimer suite. We took a tour of the art and lifeboat exhibition at the Maritime centre and took a trip down memory lane with memorabilia and dress up items before taking a stroll along the promenade taking in the sea air, sounds of the waves, stunning views and the last bit of sunshine before autumn sets in.

One of our happy couples wanted to have a special date night and we were more than happy to accommodate. They enjoyed being wined and dined having a 3 course lunch, wine and special treats listening to music bringing back many fond memories and reminiscing on their wonderful life together in a private setting for the 2 of them.

It was love at first sight between them when they first met at a bus stop after visiting Alnwick picture hall David remembers walking 2 and a half hours to Craster to take Dorothy on their first date and the rest is history! The happy couple are looking forward to celebrating their 72nd wedding anniversary next month