Celebrating life at Barchester

With excitement building, we've been showing our support for England by creating colourful flags ready to cheer on the team.

Painting is a fantastic activity for improving dexterity, coordination, and creativity, and it was especially lovely to see so many of our gentlemen getting involved. The room was filled with conversation, laughter, and team spirit, making it a brilliant social activity that everyone enjoyed.  

Our Gardening Club has been busy planting seeds for our new herb garden, making the most of the beautiful sunshine. Residents enjoyed getting their hands dirty as they filled plant pots with compost and carefully planted their seeds. Gardening is a wonderful way to encourage gentle movement, promote wellbeing, and bring everyone together. 

We can't wait to watch our herbs grow and enjoy the fruits of our hard work over the coming weeks.

The warm weather meant another lovely afternoon spent outdoors in the shade by the café.  There was plenty of laughter, friendly chats, and a touch of creativity as everyone enjoyed a little painting together. A wonderful way to relax, make memories, and while away a sunny afternoon. 

Our residents Tony celebrated his birthday yesterday, with a lovely birthday cake made by the talented Head Chef Bose to help him celebrate in style. Tony received a lovely gift from the home and was surrounded by staff as he cut his cake and was sung the traditional "Happy Birthday" 

At Glebefields  we celebrate birthdays not just as a mark of ageing another year but as a celebration of life, achievements, and personal growth. It's a time for reflection, gratitude, and looking forward to future possibilities. Birthdays provide a special opportunity for us to help residents to gather with loved ones and create lasting memories.

Residents enjoyed a wonderful celebration on National Ice Cream Day, with a fun filled sensory afternoon that brought smiles, laughter and plenty of delicious flavours to the home’s dementia community.

The aprons were on and residents set to work in creating their very own masterpieces, with a colourful selection of ice cream flavours, chocolate buttons, sprinkles and a variety of different sauces to choose from. Residents created unique and tasty treats while enjoying the sights, smells, textures and tastes of the activity. For those residents in their rooms, the activity was taken to them, so that they too could be a part of the experience as they enjoyed delicious bowls of ice cream with their favourite toppings.

Tina, Activities Co-ordinator said, “It was a wonderful simple activity that offered far more than just a tasty treat at the end.”  General Manager Larisa Bledea said: “We really like to ensure that we offer a whole host of activities within our beautiful home, and that residents get to enjoy all life’s simple pleasures, it is not always about lavish activities it is about what the activity means to our residents and the benefit it creates for them.”
 

 We are very fortunate to live opposite a lovely area of woodland ~ it’s the perfect place for a peaceful morning stroll among the trees. Simple pleasures ...... maximum feel good factor!