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Valentines Day at our residential care home in Chesterfield-9

Valentines Day At Bank Close House

Our residents are busy, busy, busy as we make our way towards Spring.

We’ve been doing all sorts of activities at Bank Close House over the past few weeks, not least were our Valentine’s Day celebrations. Residents made Valentine’s Day cards and Love Heart messages, which are on display on the notice board in the main hallway.

We’ve also been enjoying lots of games recently. We’ve had Bingo, target game, bean bag toss, balloon tennis, 10 pin bowling and more. Everyone loves a good game and our residents seem to be very competitive!

Here are some photos of our recent games activities…

A Fun & Busy January At Charnley House Care Home Hyde

Jan 22, 2021 Devonshire Care Homes 24 hour care Hyde care home Hyde Charnley House News, Hyde convalescent care Hyde dementia care Hyde Devonshire Care News nursing home Hyde residential care home Hyde respite care Hyde

We’ve had a busy few weeks here at Charnley House care home in Hyde.

Our residents have had great fun getting to know their inner artist at our art class and absolutely loved the recent 60’s themed day, where everyone got to dress up and sing along. We even had a range of musical props, which everyone found very amusing! The residents had also made some decorative artwork for the walls especially for the event.

As spring is approaching, we thought we’d better get our green fingers out, so we had a Daffodil potting day, which the residents very much enjoyed. They now have their own, personalised Daffodil pots. Hopefully, come spring, Charnley House will be awash with yellow.

We’ve enjoyed several Birthday celebrations, with gifts, cards and cakes, as well as a jigsaw afternoon, which obviously was accompanied by tea and biscuits.

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Autumn Crafts At Bank Close House Care Home Chesterfield

Oct 21, 2020 Devonshire Care Homes 24 hour care Chesterfield Bank Close House News, Chesterfield care home Chesterfield convalescent care Chesterfield dementia care Chesterfield Devonshire Care News nursing home Chesterfield residential care home Chesterfield respite care Chesterfield

The autumn is definitely here now, so we thought we’d enjoy some autumn crafts here at Bank Close House care home in Chesterfield.

Here are some of our residents making their own autumn wreaths from twigs and leaves.

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Recent Activities At Bank Close House Care Home in Chesterfield

Jul 17, 2020 Clair Yates-Cook 24 hour care Chesterfield Bank Close House News, Chesterfield care home Chesterfield convalescent care Chesterfield dementia care Chesterfield Devonshire Care News nursing home Chesterfield residential care home Chesterfield respite care Chesterfield

As lockdown continues, we are still unable to provide off site or external entertainers for our residents, but our staff have been keeping them highly entertained with a variety of games and activities.

We had a hoopla competition, which Rita won!

Please click on the thumbnails to view the hoopla images.

We also celebrated World Chocolate Day on 7th July during which we held a chocolate tasting afternoon. You can imagine that went down very well and was very much enjoyed by residents and staff alike.

Please click on the thumbnails to view the chocolate tasting photographs.

We are all hoping for glorious sunshine on 22nd July, when we will be holding our “By The Seaside Day” in the garden. On offer will be burgers, hot dogs and chips for dinner and plenty of seaside games and fun for all.

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Tenpin Bowling Competition

Jun 05, 2020 Clair Yates-Cook 24 hour care Chesterfield Bank Close House News, Chesterfield care home Chesterfield convalescent care Chesterfield dementia care Chesterfield Devonshire Care News nursing home Chesterfield residential care home Chesterfield respite care Chesterfield

Our residents had a delightful time this week having a tenpin bowling competition. The rivalry was fierce and, in the end, Joyce won! Some residents, including David and Liz (pictured below) enjoyed playing a more serene game of dominoes.

We would also like to thank Tesco for donating a food and toiletries hamper for us all.

A Rainbow Of Hands At Bank Close House, Chesterfield

May 14, 2020 Devonshire Care Homes 24 hour care Chesterfield Bank Close House News, Chesterfield care home Chesterfield convalescent care Chesterfield dementia care Chesterfield Devonshire Care News nursing home Chesterfield residential care home Chesterfield respite care Chesterfield

This week our residents have been busy making a rainbow of hands. They have used different coloured card to have their hands drawn round and some have asked for messages to be written on them.

These hands are now proudly displayed on the top of our notice board in the main hallway. Many of the residents have been trying to see if they can spot their own hand and have been admiring them all.

We also have a few thank yous to say again this week:

We’d like to thank Shelagh’s sewing circle who have kindly donated a selection of homemade face masks for staff to wear when they do their own things at home and outside of work.

Secondly, we’d like to thank Cynthia (Hazel’s daughter) who has very kindly brought in some lovely things for staff as an appreciation of their ongoing hard work and dedication.

We’ve also just had some lovely laundry bags delivered from “Castle Sewing Hub” at Bolsover for all our staff to put their uniforms in, ready to wash when they finish work.

Finally, we like to thank our local co-op store who have kindly donated a hamper for all the staff to enjoy!

VE Day Celebrations at Rotherwood Care Home Rotherham

May 14, 2020 Devonshire Care Homes 24 hour care Rotherham care home Rotherham convalescent care Rotherham dementia care Rotherham Devonshire Care News long term care Rotherham nursing home Rotherham residential care home Rotherham respite care Rotherham Rotherwood News, Rotherham

Here at Rotherwood Care Home in Rotherham our residents had the most wonderful VE day preparations and celebrations last week.

Andrea and our lovely staff trimmed the home beautifully with all sorts of decorations, including ones made by the residents.

On the day, our staff came in fancy dress and the morning was spent watching old war movies.

Later on we had all sorts of activities and games, including a game of World War II themed skittles, which everyone enjoyed and which got quite competitive!

War-time songs were being played, which residents were singing to along to with our staff and the activities coordinator.

Our thoroughly enjoyable VE Day celebrations were finished off with a lovely buffet tea, along with red, white and blue cupcakes.

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VE Day Celebrations At Bank Close House

May 12, 2020 Devonshire Care Homes 24 hour care Chesterfield Bank Close House News, Chesterfield convalescent care Chesterfield dementia care Chesterfield Devonshire Care News nursing home Chesterfield residential care home Chesterfield respite care Chesterfield

Here at Bank Close House care home in Chesterfield our residents had a wonderful time celebrating VE Day on Friday 8th May, with various activities taking place during the day.

In the morning they did VE Day themed word searches and reflected on/remembered the war years in a group discussion.

The afternoon was spent holding up the banners and flags that residents had coloured in and decorated and then a buffet tea was enjoyed by all later on.

We had a visitor join us in the conservatory – a little Robin came in for a flying visit!

It was “eyes down” for a game of “Card Bingo” with prizes of chocolates on offer…

and Lydia enjoyed a “Pamper” from Josie.

Pizza, Games & VE Day Preparations!

May 08, 2020 Devonshire Care Homes 24 hour care Chesterfield Bank Close House News, Chesterfield care home Chesterfield convalescent care Chesterfield dementia care Chesterfield Devonshire Care News nursing home Chesterfield residential care home Chesterfield respite care Chesterfield

A few thank yous first of all.

We’d like to say thank you to St Mary’s School for sending us some face shields that their students have made for us. A local company also donated some more face shields.

Thank you to Domino’s Pizzza in Chesterfield who kindly donated 3 large margarita pizzas for all our staff as an appreciation for all their hard work. They went down a treat!

Thank you too to Wendy Cooper from Temple Spa who kindly donated “pamper packages” for all our staff as a gesture of good will. Here’s Josie, our activities coordinator with the lovely gifts.

Our Residents have been passing the time participating in arts & crafts. Some have been decorating numbers for their bedroom doors and colouring in bunting for our VE Celebrations – 75 years since VE Day!

The flags have been strung together and are proudly displayed in the conservatory and lounge for all to see and remember.

Residents have also been taking part in their favourite “Target Game/Bean Bag Toss” which gets very competitive at times!

We have also received some lovely letters for our residents from people at Remedi, which are displayed in the main hall way for all to see.

This Week At Bank Close House Care Home In Chesterfield

Apr 10, 2020 Clair Yates-Cook 24 hour care Chesterfield Bank Close House News, Chesterfield care home Chesterfield convalescent care Chesterfield dementia care Chesterfield Devonshire Care News nursing home Chesterfield residential care home Chesterfield respite care Chesterfield

Here at Bank Close house our residents have been really busy over the last week.

John and Liz have been writing letters to their families…

and some of our residents have been making “Stay Safe” hand print signs. Here are John and Barbara’s fantastic creations:

Dorothy had a phone call from her son, Terry, this morning and Margaret has been relaxing in the conservatory, which is covered in brightly coloured flags.

We have also received some rainbow pictures from Rocco, who is Karen, our Senior Carer’s grandson. We have also received some from Brampton Primary School. Rocco’s designs have taken pride of place around the home, on the notice board and front lounge window, and the ones from Brampton Primary School are displayed beautifully on the main sign at the bottom of the drive.

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