Activities at Sherwood Court Care Home

Here at Sherwood Court, residents from both our Memory Lane unit and Nursing unit embarked on a real life D Day tour, in Fleetwood. Activities Coordinators, Hayley and Morag, planned a trip to Fleetwood Memorial park, where the community held a D Day event. We got there just in time for the service held by the Mayor, which was followed by the Last Post tribute. We then went around all the stalls where there was replicas of war vehicles, weapon systems and even a spit fire, safe to say our residents thoroughly enjoyed their day out, even the picnic on the mini bus.

Here at Sherwood Court, we have kick started our week off by having Mini Concerts performer, Gabby, come and put on a ABBA tribute performance for us. It has been 50 years since ABBA won the Eurovision contest back in 1974, and what a performance Gabby put on for us. We went through all of ABBA’s greatest hits including Waterloo, Dancing Queen, MAMMA MIA and many more, our resident’s absolutely loved it. Kathleen from our nursing unit and Liz from our memory lane unit, sat next to each other, their hands where in the air the whole time, bellowing out the words to all the songs Gabby sang.

Mini Concerts always provide the best entertainment for our residents.

Here at Sherwood Court today, we have a new resident residing with us, Pat. Pat is very much famous in our home already due to her twin sister Pam also residing with us... How cute do they look together?

We are very much looking forward to seeing their special bond and also being able to apart of it with them.

Welcome to Sherwood Court, Pat.

Here today at Sherwood Court, residents have been indulging on some delicious Cadburys chocolate, to mark Dementia Action Week, and to celebrate 200 years of Cadbury, we was kindly sent retro memory boxes filled with retro Cadbury bars. Activities coordinator, Hayley, spent time with residents, reminiscing about their favourite chocolate and how their local shops was always stocked up with Cadburys treats.

Here is resident, Peggy, who is a huge chocolate fan – especially Cadbury’s. Peggy told us that every Friday on her way home from school she was allowed to stop off at the shops where she would buy a Cadbury’s chocolate, as it was sold as penny bars. Look how happy she is, Peggy is due to turn 102 next month.

Here at Sherwood Court, residents enjoyed afternoon entertainment by the fantastic Al Hart. Al is a keen musician and always brings different instruments and really engages with our resident’s – they love him. During Al’s session here, after entertaining the majority of our resident’s, he took it upon himself to go around rooms to find residents, he then proceeded to do some one to one time with those who didn’t want to come and join in. Resident Sid, use to be a keen guitarist and singer and played a lot of gigs around the North West, he thoroughly enjoyed Al’s room visit and had a good chat about guitars and gigs.

Here at Sherwood Court, residents, family members and staff have got together and had a right laugh trying to act out the Maypole dance we had a beautifully decorated Maypole, handmade garlands and pretty ribbons around! Sherwood Lodge our sister home had  school children from Sherwood Primary School, to show off their skills and our residents watched with fond memories, however, the staff here wasn’t half as good as them! One of our resident’s Peter handed chocolate treats out to the school children to say thank you for their entertainment.

Great day had by all.