Activities at Hethersett Hall Care Home

Today at Hethersett hall we all planted a sunflower seed it was so much fun and we are all so excited to see who grows the biggest and most beautiful sunflowers.

Let the competition begin!!

Every resident joined in this wonderful activity, eventually we will plant the flowers outside in the gardens and watch them grow.

We are also painting pictures of sunflowers and decorating plant pots and growing other seeds for the bumblebees.

“Save the Bees”

Happy Birthday to our dearest Terry, you’ve been wanting to go here so we arranged for you to go to the lovely Peter Beales Rose Gardens to have an incredible lunch with your friend Dulcie, Terry chose to have the sharing platter and a nice glass of red wine, We also treated Terry to some lovely plants for his garden which he is going to plant and look after.

“What a perfect way to spend your birthday” said Terry

Terry requested to go to Peter Beales in the last residents meeting as his birthday was this month we treated him to a trip and a nice lunch out, We went for a walk around the rose gardens and found some lovely plants to grow back on Terry’s patio.

Our Art class has been so fabulous after raising a grand total of £230 last year for Alzheimer’s selling our art work in an art exhibition held here at Hethersett hall, we have now have a new member who’s never done art before and to start painting at 102years of age is remarkable, the paint brush just flows and she’s doing a fantastic job, let’s hope some of her work will be ready for our next exhibition, Juli Mobbs artist is so pleased with all the work we are doing she literally jumps for joy.

In Hethersett the community means so much to all of us in the home and outside, we now welcome our dementia Café into the art classes to show them what we have been creating its lovely to see people from the village of Hethersett taking interest in our work, we have coffee and cake together and a good chat.

We have the best time listening to beautiful music and bringing out our inner artist.

Our visit to Old Catton Junior School young voices

We got invited to Old Catton Junior School to see the last rehearsal of the young voices concert,

so we all wrapped up warm and had a lovely trip on the mini bus, we got front row seats it was absolutely fantastic to watch and listen to all the children sing, the children will be performing at the 02 in London and are going to send us a copy of the live show we can’t wait to watch it.

Poppy is one of the children performing and is also a member of the junior ambassadors who volunteer to spend time with us at Hethersett hall so we treated her to a bag of goodies to take with her to the 02 so she could share with her friends, poppy said thank you,  gave us all hugs and sent us a photo of her ready for the show this meant the world to us.

Poppy is coming back to see us on Valentine’s day to make some heart sun catchers we can’t wait to see her.

Young voices is the world’s largest school choir group

We love a good trip to the Garden centre to see what we can find, this time we all came up with the idea of doing a sunflower competition we purchased some seeds and some pots and we will begin to sow our seeds in time for the summer, we will have a race to see who’s grows the fastest and biggest, we all love sunflowers so much they are so bright and beautiful. We can’t wait to take pictures of our progress.

Who loves a coffee? We do.

We enjoy having a coffee in the garden centre and having some time to reminisce and talk about our lives and interests together its makes you feel warm inside a coffee certainly is a hug in a mug.

What a fantastic evening we had last night with Lucinda the harpist playing some beautiful music for our art exhibition we made £200 for Alzheimer’s society how amazing is that well done to all the artist with their beautiful art work it looks so Christmassy too with cheese and wine enjoyed by everyone