Activities at Mallard Court Care Home

Mallard Courts Queens Platinum Jubilee Garden preparations are underway and we have sourced some lovely flowers and shrubs to go into the pots and flower beds. Residents will be helping us plant them out in their garden with family and friends.  The main colour scheme is going to be predominantly Red , White and Blue floral displays, a Memory Tree with solar lights  and a Green Laser light show at night.  Our Millennium Tube was destroyed accidentally  when we had some ground work done so we are looking at making a new Memory Tube for the Platinum Jubilee celebrations.  Everyone is getting involved and sharing ideas and really looking forward to celebrating the Queen’s birthday in style.

Mallard Court residents and staff celebrated "international firefighters day" We took some delicious treats to our local Bridlington firefighters.  Off we went on our minibus, purchased the goodies and delivered in person, the treats and a card, to thank them for the wonderful service they provide to our local community.

They were so welcoming and friendly and thanked the residents for the kind gesture. Next we went to the harbour, to sample a few of the many flavours of ice cream from "Ice Delights", whilst admiring the view out to sea.

Pebbles, our beautiful dog, met a couple of new canine friends - Trixie and Rafiki.

We are looking forward to our next adventure on the minibus.

Residents and staff celebrated a Mexican anniversary of the Mexican day ‘Cinco De Mayo’ as it marks the day in 1862, when President Benito Juarez sent troops to face the invading French army that was marching towards Mexico City.  

It is celebrated with parades, battle re-enactments, mariachi music , traditional foods, piñatas and fireworks.  It is a day to celebrate freedom and liberty. We had a fabulous afternoon with delightful Mexican music, viewing beautiful pictures of this interesting country, a bit of colourful dressing up and sampling the delicious dishes and Mocktails which our homes hospitality team especially prepared.

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We had a lovely time joining Henry Slator for an exciting virtual event to discuss his book ‘Conversations at the Pond’.

Henry had an unusual writing journey, which many of our residents found inspiring, he underwent chemotherapy in early 2020, which allowed him to rediscover his light-hearted outlook on life by imagining conversations with creatures in and around his large garden pond and adding buckets of fun.

The entertaining Conversations at the Pond, with its mass of colourful illustrations, took our residents along his journey, they felt inspired, cheered and loved hearing all about Henry’s experiences.

We really enjoyed getting messy with our leaf crafting session, painting the back of the leaves in various bright colours and using them as stamps to create some beautiful designs.

We sourced the leaves from around the grounds of Mallard Court and we enjoyed some educational fun using an application on our tablet to identify the various bushes and trees.

We love celebrating our residents birthdays here at Mallard Court, this week our lovely resident, Wendy celebrated her 88th   years young birthday with a family visit in her room before celebrating with friends and colleagues in the home who presented the birthday girl with a delicious home-made birthday cake and treated her to a rousing rendition of happy birthday!

Wendy commented she had a wonderful day to remember with everybody including Pebbles the Pat Dog who visits most days.  Happy birthday Wendy from everyone at Mallard Court!