Activities at Moreton Hill Care Home

We were delighted to welcome the Northeast Production Company to come and perform Puss in Boots for us all this year.  

There were lots of jokes and laughter and audience participation.  

Colin, our Maintenance Manager was roped in to dress up as the Princess. His acting skills were impressive!

Our residents were totally unaware that it was Colin in the costume but it gave everyone the biggest laugh of the show when he took his wig off and everyone recognised him.  

Thank you Northeast Productions for a great performance!

We had a wonderful festive fayre at our home involving residents, staff, friends, families and the local community.

On sale were delicious cakes and fabulous crafts, a Christmas hamper for the raffle and Christmas wreaths made by our residents. There were also stalls run by  folk from our nearby town of Stonehouse selling goodies  to tempt everyone.

From the get go our Reception area was busy with visitors and residents buying gifts and helping out on the stalls.

Everyone had a brilliant day and raised lots of money to go to charities which will be chosen by the residents at their next monthly meeting.

After 23 years of service at our home our Head Gardener Eddie decided that at the age of 80 it was time to hang up his tools, put his feet up and spend time relaxing with his wife and family. 

It just so happened that Eddie’s leaving day fell on Halloween which gave us a good excuse to dress up and give him a spooky send off.  Everyone is really going to miss Eddie as he is so much a part of our family here.  Fortunately for us though, it won’t be the last we see of him as he has volunteered to come back in the Spring and run some gardening activities for us all.

Once a month during term time, we are lucky enough to have a visit from some of the pupils from Cashes Green school.  We pick the children up in our minibus and bring them to Moreton Hill.  They love coming to the home and meeting our residents. 

We always have a few songs chosen by both the residents and the children that we all sing together and then after refreshments we settle down for games of scrabble, dominoes or jigsaw puzzles.  It’s great to see the generations mixing and enjoying the  others company. 

At Christmas we have been invited to the nativity play at the school.  We can’t wait!!

What a memorable Saturday afternoon it was with musician and composer Susie Vaughan. 

Susie has been running monthly interactive sessions with our residents for some time now and with everyone making such great progress we thought it would be a good idea to have our own concert and invite families and friends to participate. With the help of Susie, everyone played and sang along.

One of our residents, Moira, wrote a piece of music and words to the verses and another resident, Geraint, played the piano to accompany. Music and the pleasure it brings to everyone is an essential part of life here at Moreton Hill and this special session with Susie was certainly a fantastic occasion.

Lucy our Activity Assistant has loads of great ideas and projects for our residents to get stuck into. 

With evenings drawing in and autumn well underway we made some beautiful lanterns with papier-mache tissue paper and decorated with silver stars and glitter.  Battery operated tea lights were placed in the centre of the jars and the lanterns were put on display in our Reception area and given to residents to enjoy in their rooms.

We have a whole list of arts and crafts projects lined up for the coming months and have already started on our poppy display for Remembrance Sunday working with our volunteer artist, Mel to paint poppies on stones that will go on display outside our main entrance.