Activities at Bushey House Beaumont Care Home

Residents recently took part in a fun activity when they embarked on a virtual cruise to The Philippines, originally various islands populated by competing tribes arriving from mainland Southeast Asia, each with their own king and queen“ where people have lived since the dawn of human history!

The trip was organised by one of our nurses Heidi with help from colleagues, who arranged for our residents watched an interesting film show all about life in The Philippines.

As well as 'visiting' interesting landmarks and learning historical facts about The Philippines and being entertained with traditional dancing, our residents got to sample some traditional fruits and to make their own bird wind chime souvenirs.

Everyone enjoyed learning about a country that most were not familiar with and found the whole experience very interesting.

Our next cruise is preparing to set sail to Japan and our residents have their “tickets“ at the ready and looking forward to the sail away party when they board the ship!

Residents recently enjoyed interactive, intergenerational fun at Bushey house, when the girls from 'Bushey Brownies' came to celebrate Mitzvah Day with us.

The brownie group based at Bushey Synagogue came to sing songs to entertain us, and also brought cards and gifts especially for our residents.

Mitzvah Day is all about bringing local communities and people together and doing selfless acts, as well as delivering acts of kindness for others.

Our residents were delighted to meet all the girls and thrilled with the handmade boxes of chocolates and cards given to them, as well as to hear the joyful songs they performed especially for us.

They are welcome to visit again any time!

We had a captive audience of residents on Sunday morning to watch the Remembrance Sunday service together, broadcast on the big TV screen.

Afterwards, we all enjoyed freshly brewed cups of tea and delicious home-baked cakes prepared by Head Chef Avni, and shared stories together, to reminisce about our individual experiences about World War II and remembering people we'd loved and lost, which all agreed they found comfort in coming together to mark this day of huge significance.

Last week, we made a poppy wreath which we are taking to our local war memorial on behalf of us all at Bushey House later today.

Residents enjoyed an afternoon of creative activity when they applied their artistic skills to make poppies.

The 'Piece de Resistance' was a beautiful wreath made entirely of the poppies and currently has pride of place in the Reception area of our Home, where it will be displayed until Sunday 12th November, after which it will then be taken and placed at our local War Memorial.

Remembrance Sunday is very important to our residents and many recalled their memories of the war, while we worked on on creating our poppies and wreath.

The residents were all very proud of their beautiful creation and agreed the wreath was unique, and reflected everyone’s talents.

As the sun set following a fine, dry day, residents marvelled at the beautiful way the sunset enhanced the beautiful golden colours of the trees and shrubs in the extensive grounds at Bushey House, from the comfort of the Grand Dining Room, whilst enjoying supper.

Everyone agreed just how fortunate we all are to be able to look out of the large, full length, picture windows to fully appreciate such breathtakingly, beautiful surroundings every single day when we also see deer and other wildlife exploring in our garden.

Residents felt like they were watching an episode of strictly come dancing, when we were treated to an energetic dance demonstration at Bushey House.

Many of our residents are fans of the new BBC Strictly Come Dancing 2023 series and were delighted when we were entertained for the first time by local dancers who visited especially, to perform a varied programme of Latin American and Ballroom dances for us.

Our residents were totally enthralled and agreed on awarding straight tens whilst watching from the side lines of our makeshift dance floor in the Grand Dining Room and everyone loved singing and swaying along to the music so much, that we've arranged another visit form the talented dancers and invited them back to perform for us again, at our Christmas show in December!