Activities at Springvale Court Care Home

We had a lovely time joining Henry Slator for an exciting virtual event to discuss his book ‘Conversations at the Pond’.

Henry had an unusual writing journey, which many of our residents found inspiring, he underwent chemotherapy in early 2020, which allowed him to rediscover his light-hearted outlook on life by imagining conversations with creatures in and around his large garden pond and adding buckets of fun.

The entertaining Conversations at the Pond, with its mass of colourful illustrations, took our residents along his journey, they felt inspired, cheered and loved hearing all about Henry’s experiences.

We marked the Queen’s birthday in style by brewing up a storm for National Tea Day and having an afternoon party.

Supplied with a tasty selection of biscuits, cakes, and of course, teas for our event, our residents had lots of fun taking part in sessions including themed quizzes and much more!

We all truly enjoyed the double celebration and the wide selection of teas.

To find out more about life at Springvale Court, please visit our website: www.barchester.com/home/springvale-court-care-home

We hope you have had a hoppy Easter!  We celebrated Easter in style with a whole host of themed activities and egg-cellent entertainment.  Our residents enjoyed decorating the home, painting eggs; attending a virtual church service and a special visit from our Easter bunny.

In recognition of the day, our talented chef prepared a delicious feast for all to enjoy, from carrot soup, roasted lamb and salmon with creamed spinach to tasty chocolate cake and Easter biscuits.  As always, we’ve had an amazing time.

Staff, residents and their guests at Barchester’s Springvale care home are celebrating the birth of baby chicks this week at the home.  There was a lot of egg-citement at the home as the chicks hatched throughout the week. Residents were able to pet and feed the chicks as they found their footing in their new home.

General Manager Judith Tully said: “It was an eggs-cellent day when the eggs finally hatched! Residents at Sprigvale Court], as well as our team were all very excited about the new-borns, we’ve named the chicks George, Charlotte and Louis after the royal princes and princess. For anyone who would like to come for a visit of our chicken coop and have a tour of our home our doors are always open.”

Our residents came together to enjoy an exciting virtual talk courtesy of the team at National Trust Talks Service.  The illustrated talk took us closer to one of Cliveden’s most famous families, the Astors. Our residents were able to discover what motivated William Waldorf Astor, America’s richest man, to purchase Cliveden in 1893 and how the estate became the centre of high society in the 1920 s and 30 s thanks to his son Waldorf and daughter in law Nancy Astor.

We had a lovely time joining Holly and Marie-Therese from the Wallace Collection, for a virtual introduction to the Collection, followed by a sensory exploratory walk through one of the museum’s most famous landscape paintings.   The Collection ranges from Old Master paintings to 18th century French furniture, arms and armour.  We all had a wonderful time and cannot wait to put our creative skills to a test and paint some landscapes in the upcoming days.