Activities at Chester Court Care Home

Staff and residents at Barchester’s Chester Court care home, in Bedlington, were delighted to be invited to have their 2nd vaccination at the home which has lifted everyone’s spirits after what has been a very challenging year for everyone.

General Manager, Sarah Kelly said: “Last year was a year like no other and the vaccine feels like the light at the end of the tunnel.  Our teams have been magnificent in how they have risen to every challenge during this pandemic and we are proud to play our part in this next phase to ensure the most vulnerable are protected.”

Ann, staff member at Chester Court said: “I am so pleased to be given the vaccine.  It will help to keep our residents safe, and is the first step in getting things back to normal and having a buzz of visitors in the home once again.”

Chester Court Care Home in Bedlington is marking National Nest Box Week by creating and installing nest boxes in their garden to help support the local bird population. 

National Nest Box Week takes place each year from Feb 14-21 to encourage everyone to put up nest boxes in their local area to promote the conservation of our breeding birds and wildlife. Garden songbirds can struggle to find suitable nesting holes and cavities if there are a lack of mature trees in the area.

Staff and residents at Chester Court have been finding out about what materials to use to make a good nest box and what plants and shrubs make the best nesting materials.

Chinese New Year approaching and the residents of Chester Court decided to complete a multi-coloured Dragon from card using their handprints. The end creation is beautiful and looks absolutely stunning taking pride of place on the wall. Well done to all of our residents especially Doris who is proudly showing off their talents

Residents at Chester Court have been busy preparing for Valentine’s Day. We’ve been getting creative and making an array of Valentines decorations to display around the home. We have made heart wreaths to hang on doors, wrapped cardboard hearts with red wool to make hanging hearts to put on the wall and decorated 3D trees with glitter love hearts to put on the tables. We have also made some valentines cards to gift to loved ones or display in rooms.

Residents of Chester Court took a virtual trip down under as they celebrated Australia Day with an array of fun-filled activities, from taking a virtual tour of Melbourne Zoo and getting to see many of the animals.  Some of their favourites were the monkeys, koalas and kangaroos. They then took a virtual walk along Golden Beach which was beautiful and hearing the sounds of the waves was very relaxing.  Residents even enjoyed an arts and craft session where they painted boomerangs and learnt about its origins and how used by the Aboriginal Australian people for hunting

Residents celebrated Burns Night with a day of all things Scottish, reading a short biography of Robert Burns and learning about his life, watching a video of Scottish highland dancing and listening to the sound of bagpipes which got some of the residents toe-tapping and dancing along too from the comfort of their armchairs before the hospitality team served haggis, neaps and tatties for dinner and after reading Robert Burns’ famous poem Address to a Haggis. It was a wonderful day for all!