Activities at Meadow Park Care Home

What a wonderful day we’ve had here at Meadow Park, one of our residents ‘Joy’ took great pleasure in judging, and awarding one of our Care Assistants ‘Sydney’ her certificate for best dressed Pudsey bear award

Joy, who has only recently came to live at Meadow Park has really enjoyed today, and became emotional, with ‘happy tears’.

Joy said ‘the staff really put themselves out for us, and it’s really lovely, Iv had a wonderful day’

Thankyou to all the staff for taking part and dressing up for our residents

Today we focused on little acts of kindness to our residents, staff and community in recognition of Kindness Day, celebrated on the 13th of November every year.

We got involved in a variety of activities throughout the day, our residents created and send out kindness cards to members of the community and their loved ones, and enjoyed reading beautiful poems about kindness.

We’ve set up a compliments station at the home, where lovely messages were placed for visitors, staff and residents to enjoy.

Residents had a wonderful long overdue trip outdoors to the local remembrance Sunday parade and service in Bedlington to pay their respects to the fallen heros. Residents were thrilled to venture into the local town for some much anticipated fresh air, and bumping into local members of the community, and of course paying respect to the fallen.

Residents have had a turn at finger painting, and what better to paint than Picassos pictures, on his actual birthday. Residents loved it, and one said the paint felt very satisfyingly weird.

Residents enjoy arts and crafts as parts of the homes varied life enrichment programme.

We were delighted to join Blooming Haus’s Christmas Wreath Making Masterclass, where Master Florist, Michal and his business partner - Michael showed us the best method to create beautiful festive wreaths.

Following the tips and ideas learnt during the amazing virtual experience, we were happy to put our skills to a test and to enter the #BarchesterChristmasWreaths competition.

We all had a wonderful time creating our festive wreath/s.

Thank you @bloominghaus for helping our residents flow into the true spirit of Noel.

We celebrated Remembrance Day with English National Ballet Associate Dance Artist, Richard Bermange, who led a creative dance workshop for our residents followed by a special extract of Akram Khan’s work Dust, premiered in 2014 as part of ENB’s Lest We Forget programme, commemorating the First World War.

ENB company dancers, Erina Takahashi and James Streeter performed the extract and provided some insight into this moving work.

Our residents had a wonderful time as they listened, danced and were able to singalong to famous war time music performed by ENB Associate Musician, Matt Hartley-Stevens.