Activities at Maple Leaf Lodge Care Home

Barbara celebrated her 100th birthday with an afternoon tea with staff, relatives, friends and other residents as she received a card from the Queen in recognition of her landmark birthday. Barbara has always admired the Queen and receiving this card meant a lot to her.

It is estimated that approximately 10,000l of cream and 28,000kg of strawberries are consumed at Wimbledon each year. With this in mind we took to the strawberry fields this morning to pick some delicious strawberries. With our strawberries we are planning on making some ice cream, milkshakes and enjoy them with cream. As Winnie and Ivy were walking around the field they remembered the song by the Beatles “strawberry fields forever” and sang it while we were going round.

18th- 25th June is National picnic week. During the week, our residents participated in both indoor and outdoor games, we were lucky with the weather and enjoyed the sunshine in the garden. A whole host of treats were laid on to celebrate, we had a picnic in the lounge area and hampers, prepared by our talented hospitality team, were packed to the brim with a selection of sweet and savoury treats, which we enjoyed al fresco in the garden. We all had a wonderful time, we also took   to Wydham park to enjoy the sunshine for lunch, we enjoyed our sandwiches on the bench and ice cream for after.

Alison Bradley, Courtney Doncaster, Molly Ellis and Hattie Bridge Staff took part in a sponsored 5k fun run in the Nottingham edition of the popular Race For Life event, which raises money for Cancer Research. Residents, their relatives and staff were all very supportive of the team, giving out advice and cheering them on as they practiced in the garden when they first started to train for their fundraising challenge.

Residents enjoyed a three day celebration weekend to celebrate the Queens Platiunum Jubliee, to start the week the residents joined a virtual event posy making, residents had the opportunity to watch how to make a posy and make their own to decorate the home. The flowers were red, white and blue. The next day the residents watched trooping of the colours, resident Ann use to play in a brass band and would regular play at such events around the county and dressed for the occasion in her union jack dress. We were joined by Melody Flyte and Sue Tinkler to help us to entertain the residents singing, we had all the old time classics, residents were up dancing and waving flags.

Residents took a trip out to J and J alpaca café in Dry Doddington it was a wonderful day to be out watching the animals we could relax in the café and watch the alpacas while drinking our coffee.