Activities at Mallard Court Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life. We provide a wide range of group activities and individual one to one activities to meet our residents needs including musical entertainers, PAT dog visits, minibus outings, themed events and much more!
We take a person centred approach when planning each individuals activities so they can achieve a feeling of self worth and well-being.
We hold monthly meetings with the residents and also regular meetings with their family and friends, discussing any ideas that they may have, and also any problems that their may have. Both of our activities coordinators, Steve and Lynne, have completed NAPA Activity Workers Level 2 Award training, and are continually seeking new ideas so we can ensure life in the home is as varied and interesting as possible. We encourage strong community links with the local schools, colleges and local charities in the community. Steve is supported also by his dogs, Tia, Pebbles and Oscar who give great pleasure to the residents in our home, and can often be seen either on a persons lap or being taken for a walk around the home. Many of the visitors that come into Mallard Court commented that it is so friendly and welcoming.
Steve Moss
Hi, my name is Steve, and I have been a Lifestyle Coordinator at Mallard Court since 2006, and have achieved the NAPA (National Association of Activity Providers) Level 2 Award in Activity Provision in the Care Sector.
We provide a wide range of activities for the people we support, as well as for their families and friends. I also love to have one-to-one chats with residents who like to reminisce about their lives over a cup of tea and some biscuits.
We have our own minibus and have fun days out sight-seeing, having a picnic or going a local pub for a drink and a meal. We also arrange for local artists to provide musical entertainment for everyone at Mallard Court.
Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Mallard Court Care Home
Arts and Crafts
Here at Mallard Court we love our arts and Craft sessions and encourage everyone to join in the fun together.
Whether its creating a lovely beach scenery together using brightly coloured acrylic paints with pebbles, shells and sand from the beach.
Or a themed colouring session, such as fun Halloween pictures for the children who visit their Great Grandparents to do together.
Beautiful flowers and cakes for a beautiful lady!
Mallard Court had the great pleasure celebrating together residents Kate’s 85th birthday with her family and friends.
Kate was born in the local village of Lissett in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Kate trained to be a nurse at Leeds General Infirmary and she has travelled all around the world in her profession.
Canada, Australia, Palm Island, West Germany, Hong Kong and Belgium are just some of the countries Kate has worked in.
Kate also trained as an Health Visitor in Southampton, and worked as an Health Visitor in the local Bridlington community for a number of years.
Congratulations Kate and Best wishes from everyone here at Mallard Court!
Always busy at Mallard Court
We love our wide variety of activities we share together at Mallard Court and have so much fun!
Pet Therapy is very popular and we love our furry friends visiting us.
Our Arts and Craft sessions are so much fun and we create some quite stunning masterpieces.
Simple activities that can bring so much fun and laughter like Balloon Tennis, where everyone can join in, including residents, staff and visitors.
This month we have also been participating with ‘Tell Barchester’, residents and family surveys to gain the views of everyone about Mallard Court.
Mini Bus trips in the local area
‘All Aboard’ our Mallard Court Minibus to take in the fantastic and beautiful views of Bridlington Harbour and Flamborough Head Lighthouse.
We are so lucky to have a variety of interesting and fabulous places of interest in our local area.
We love our trips out on our very own Minibus to take in the panoramic view, whilst enjoying the delicious 99 Ice-creams from Mr Moo’s kiosk at the Headlands Restaurant.
National Country Music Day
We love our music and live musical entertainment provided by various local artists.
We had a fabulous day here at Mallard Court in Bridlington celebrating International Country Music Day together.
Live entertainment was provided by star entertainer Geoff Broadway, sing along to our favourite country music songs, with a bit of line dancing thrown in for good measure!
We reminisced over our favourite country music artists, and we all agreed that Dolly Parton’s and Kenny Rogers’s version of “Islands in the Stream” is our most popular song.
Baking Club
Here at Mallard Court we really love our Baking Club activity creating delicious culinary delights together, and then enjoy sampling the finished articles. The Baking Club is a very popular activity and we made some scrumptious Scones for our Summer Fair.
We love to involve our residents family and friends and we had fun making Coconut & Lemon macaroons
Upcoming events
Open Day Event
We invite you to join us for our homes open day event from 10am - 4pm on Saturday 5th April.
World Parkinson's Day Support Group
Join our support group as we mark World Parkinson's Day on Friday11th April.
Spring Fair
We hope you can join us on Saturday 12th April for our homes Spring Fair with lots of fun and entertainment for all the family.
Easter Art Competition
Take part in our Easter art competition and either send your best piece of Easter themed art or pick up a colouring page from the home and win a prize.
April
Join us as we look ahead to our Easter celebrations, life enrichment and community events.
Spring Newsletter
Our Spring Newsletter is live. Find out about the latest goings on in the home and events coming soon.
May
Join us at the home as we look forward to the warmer months and take a look at our upcoming events and activities.
Emergency Services - Take a break on us!
Come and take a break on us! Calling all emergency personnel - ambulance, police, district nurses - come and enjoy a drink and slice of cake on your break.
Volunteers - Could you make a difference?
We recognise the impact a Volunteer can make on the lives of our residents, do you have any spare time? For more information we'd love to hear from you.
Community Cancer Support Cafe
We know the importance of supporting our local community and to wish to offer a space and support to those who have been affected by cancer with our specialist community cafe.
Carer's Cafe
We understand the importance of looking after the local community and are offering a comfortable space for carers to connect with one another.
Community Cafe
Join us every third Thursday of the month for our homes Community Cafe in association with our friends at 'Active Communities'
Looking For a Meeting Place
For further details of what Mallard Court can offer, Please get in touch with the home.
Dementia Cafe
We know how important it is supporting our local community and extend an invitation to join us at our monthly dementia cafe, last Tuesday of the month from 2.00 pm.
Coffee Morning
Come along and make new friends at our popular coffee morning - 1st Tuesday of the month from 11.00 am. All welcome.
