Activities at Station Court Care Home

At our recent weekly Dementia football outing to the Hirst Welfare centre with GetOnside Northumberland.

2 of our gentlemen who worked down the pit together reconnected with a gentleman they used to play football with, for North Seaton team in their younger days. It was a heart-warming morning with all men connecting once again through the love of football, active challenges and friendly competition!

We had a jam packed coronation weekend at Station Court!

Everyone got involved in decorating our home from quilting to woodwork before we began our celebrations with the amazing vocalist Michaela singing at our Royal prosecco party!

We watched history in the making on the big screen, we made floral centrepieces, royal cocktails and decorated cakes for our royal afternoon tea party and ended our celebrations on a high singing and dancing with live entertainment from the brilliant Michael Stevens!

Across our services Residents had a wonderful time participating in an interactive virtual talk with Pippa Catterall, Professor of History and Policy at the University of Westminster, where we delved into the rich history of coronations.

During the talk, we explored fascinating topics such as the coronation chair, the crown, and other significant aspects related to King Charles' upcoming coronation. Our residents were thrilled to have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the memoirs of past coronations from 1937 and 1953, as well as learning about the coronation oath and what to expect from the ceremony, including the music, guests, and pageantry.

Some of our gentlemen in the home had expressed wanting to return to the home of the magpies recently, and so the team at Station Court got to work to make this happen and were invited to St James park memory café.

Our NUFC fans were over the moon to not only see the stadium in its glory but to meet toon legend Bob Moncur, captain of the team in the late 60s! who gave a great talk of his career with the club bringing back many great and funny memories, and also came to meet and give his autograph to our gents!

A truly special day for all of us.

Everyone has had a ‘cracking’ time over Easter weekend at Station Court.

Residents had a great time in the local community hiding bunnies in shop windows for children to find in our bunny scavenger hunt on the lead up.

We then kicked off our weekend celebrations singing and dancing to live entertainment from the fabulous Musical memories and had fun making Easter cheesecake and chocolate sponge. We had an eggcelent delivery with everyone receiving an Easter egg from our Station bunny and invited local children for a Easter creations workshop. We ended celebrations on a high with families and visitors joining us at our Easter fun day with egg hunts, Easter games and lots of chocolate! And had a wonderful church service from Holy Sepulchre church and receiving palm crosses for those that wished.

Staff and residents at Barchester’s Station Court Care Home have been having fantastic fun hiding Easter bunnies all over the place in Ashington for local children to find.

The staff and residents decided to challenge local children to find 12 Easter bunnies that are hiding in local shop windows in the town. The children need to write down the number of each bunny and where they have been found in order to take part in the Easter Bunny Hunt between 1st and 9th of April.

General Manager, Sarah Kelly, said: ‘’Residents have had so much fun visiting local shops to hide the bunnies and we are all looking forward to the children visiting with their completed forms and receiving their prizes and choosing one lucky winner for a eggstra special prize!’’