Activities at Vecta House Care Home

Residents, families and friends all gathered round the Christmas tree to enjoy listening to the delightful Christmas songs sung by Summerfield’s primary school choir. Together residents and children sang and danced to classic carols that have passed on through generations. After we had finished singing our hearts out we all headed outside for the big light switch on, everyone was surrounded by beautiful Christmas lights and the children danced under the snow machine while everyone enjoyed warm minced pies and hot chocolate. Through the laughter and enjoyment bells could be herd in the distance and to everyone’s surprise Santa was making his way down the driveway on his sleigh. Santa greeted all the children listening to the children’s wishes before heading into Vecta house to wish each and every resident a Merry Christmas.

We Celebrated a special birthday for one of our residents Brian who turned 80!

We had an exciting day planned along with his wife Sue so everyone at the home jumped into action to make the day as memorable as possible for Brian.

Brian got pampered in the morning and helped to get ready for the big surprise, you could hear staff through the corridors singing and wishing Brian a happy Birthday.

After lunch the taxi arrived to take Brian to his surprise destination. Brian is a train enthusiast so when we arrived at Havenstreet railway station he was grinning from ear to ear. There was lots of surprises throughout the visit, Brains favourite was seeing the train pull in with his name on the front of the steam train wishing him a happy birthday. Staff at the station rolled out the red carpet for Brain to board his very own carriage.

Taking in the beautiful woodland scenery where Brian once used to go shooting he seemed to be in his element with a great smile on his face throughout the journey. When we arrived back at Vecta House Brian enjoyed opening gifts and had a big slice of birthday cake washed down with a lovely cuppa tea.

We started preparations for Remembrance day  by creating a breath-taking display of cascading poppies that we hung in the reception area for all visitors to admire as they entered the home. Each poppy was knitted and crochet by a local group the Wraxall Wollies, who donated the poppies.

Later in the week we created more displays painting poppies to display around the home.

Remembrance Sunday residents gathered together to watch live coverage of The National Service Of Remembrance. We joined the nation with two minutes silence to pay respect for members of the armed forces and for those who had lost their lives in the two world wars and later conflicts.

This was a very important day for our residents who wore their poppies proudly, as they remembered their loved ones who had served and lost their lives to the wars.

Residents kicked off the festive spirit early with a visit to their local garden centre Busy Bees.

Busy Bees is known for its spectacular Christmas display and we were all excited to enter the world of Christmas.

As we first stepped in we took advantage of the Christmas photo booth getting beautiful photos to remind us of our magical adventure.

We walked around the world of Christmas taking in all the lights and everything that makes this time of year so magical. We saw the biggest Christmas tree that started from the ground floor and reached up to the top floor and then proceeded to have our photo taken with Santa.

After we had spent time admiring the displays all around us we headed to the café for a hot beverage and slice of delicious cake. On our way home we reminisced about our individual Christmas traditions and what was our favourite part of the trip.

Today was our residents first time visiting “The Quirky Teapot” AND EVERYONE LOVED IT. We enjoyed cream tea with delicious homemade scones.

Residents joined together with their local primary school to celebrate harvest festival.

Residents enjoyed listening to the children sing a variety of songs which brought back fond memories for a resident who used to work with a combined harvester.

The children joined residents to play the glockenspiel during the performance which everyone thoroughly enjoyed.