Activities at The Spires Care Home

We have had another fantastic day today here at The Spires.  The men enjoyed getting together for a tipple in our Gentleman’s Club, we enjoyed a sing along and a chat whilst enjoying a glass of Whisky or Guinness.

We then enjoyed an afternoon outing on our minibus! We first stopped off at our local Dobbies Garden Centre where we enjoyed a look around at all of the Christmas decoration’s and display’s and brought some mince pies for our journey home.

We then stopped off at Lichfield Cathedral where we thoroughly enjoyed listening to the Cathedral Choir rehearse! We enjoyed a look around the beautiful Cathedral before heading back to the minibus to eat our mince pies!

Staff, residents and relatives at The Spires Care Home in Lichfield have taken part in a sponsored bake off and cake sale to raise money for Children in Need.

Taking place this year on Friday 17 November, Children in Need raises money to help support local charities and projects which are providing essential frontline help to children and young people in communities throughout the UK.  The activities team got their heads together and put the two things together that residents love the most which is baking and raising money for a good cause!

Staff and residents from Barchester’s The Spires care home, in Lichfield had a fantastic time visiting Barton Marina in Burton upon Trent where they all enjoyed a walk around the marina, a hot chocolate and slice of cake in the coffee shop and feeding the swans and cygnets.

Residents and staff had a brilliant time looking at the many boats that were on the marina and the wildlife surrounding it. They even enjoyed some window shopping and finished off their afternoon in one of the coffee shops which was overlooking the beautiful marina.

We welcomed ‘Strummer Time’ band into the home to play for us, Strummer Time got everyone singing and clapping along to the songs. Thank you very much for performing for us here at The Spires, the residents thoroughly enjoyed this.

We also had our weekly dementia book club where we took it in turns to read ‘The Race to Space’. We enjoyed reading the book with a hot drink and some biscuits before watching the first moon landing on the TV and having a discussion on the conspiracy theories.

This morning we watched a beautiful choral Eucharist service from Lichfield Cathedrals live stream.

In the afternoon we enjoyed the glorious weather on our sun terrace, played bingo (Colin was chuffed after choosing chocolate after eight mints as his prize), we cooled down during the day with choc ices and cool drinks. After our obligatory sing along we listened to our talented volunteer Alex play on our recently donated electronic keyboard.

Recently some of our residents have enjoyed a trip out to Humpty Dumpty’s pre-school for craft activities and story times surrounding Beatrix Potters 157th Birthday. The children were absolutely perfect and a joy to be around. Residents helped the children with crafts and reading Beatrix Potter stories. Intergenerational activities provide our residents and the children with the opportunity to interact and to enjoy being together!