Activities at Park View Care Home

Some residents enjoyed making their own pancakes in the kitchen on their community, Theodore in particular enjoyed making his pancakes and bringing his made ones to the manager and admin office, added extra strawberries of course.

The activities team made a beautiful trolley of all types of toppings for the pancakes!

Chocolate seemed to be the favourite in our home

What a great turnout for our latest Pudding Club! We were very pleased to welcome a range of special guests including Mayor Faruk Choudhury, the local Quality & Improvement Team, our Member of Parliament's office manager and many more.

Everyone was impressed with the range of delicious puddings created by the chef, staff team and the residents. Mayor Faruk talked with residents and staff about life at Park View, whilst everyone enjoyed a relaxed afternoon. 

We look forward to exhibiting more of our wonderful baking abilities in the months ahead, so feel free to join us at our next Pudding Club meet. 

On the 26th January we invited family and friends to join us at Parkview for our pudding club. Staff made some old fashioned cakes with help from our residents, we also had family members make cakes. Barchester has 9 different homes taking part in the pudding club. Each care home is joining together and are being encouraged to make cakes with their residents. We are hoping to make a book with the top recipes that residents remember baking with their children or that has been passed down from their parents and grandparents.

On the day, our activities staff decorated the coffee lounge with old fashioned tea cups, plates and wine glasses. We invited families, and friends from our local church. Our residents came along and enjoyed tasting the cakes and reminiscing about the cakes they had made with their grandparents and great grandparents. We had cakes from different cultures so residents and guests could try cake they might not of had before. Our residents had such a lovely time and enjoyed eating cakes and puddings, and engaging with some new people, sharing stories and laughing. As one resident described it: "the good old days".

We were lucky enough to have a visit from our local college. They came in and took pictures for our residents for Christmas. The residents sent these amazing pictures to their families as a Christmas cards.

A big thank you to the college, All of the pictures came out amazing!

This evening, all of the residents on our Memory Lane community were treated to a takeaway of their choice, courtsey of Dave and Jennifer.

Dave and Jennifer are the family of a resident who very sadly passed away. We would like to say a huge thank you to Dave and Jennifer for this lovely gift to all of our residents, they all thoroughly enjoyed their evening.

We couldn't get everyone to the pub, so we brought the pub to us! The Park View Arms was open and serving both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and snacks. We also enjoyed music and even some dancing! A wonderful time was had by all.