Sherwood Grange

Margaret had a lovely time with our Remembrance Day cups and saucer painting this morning. There's nothing like a cup of tea, painting and a good chinwag. The first batch of cup and saucers have be...

Last night we had a wonderful time at St John's the Baptist Church where the residents enjoyed an ABBA tribute act. They were absolutely amazing! Lots of fun, singing and dancing.

On Monday we were entertained by Song on Wheels, a fun choir who have a wonderful sense of humour! Can't wait to see the Christmas show!

Here we have some of our lovely residents trying out some virtual reality headsets courtesy of Juliana who provided them to us last week. As you can see the residents are enjoying them thoroughly b...

Saturday was the International Day of Art in Care Homes and, as the nights are drawing in and the leaves are changing, we decided to do some Autumn Art. We had mixed success but enjoyed the challen...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN! On Tuesday we celebrated John's birthday with a sing along, cake, champagne and John's favourite - couple of cans of fosters!

Today the residents started on our home-made Christmas Cake. Sherry was the preferred alcohol, and everyone got involved. Lots of amazing baking knowledge was shared and we all learnt many tips and...

Yesterday we had a birthday celebration for Joan who enjoyed a wonderful performance from Adina, champagne and cake for her 91st Birthday.

We had a competitive session of countdown this morning! Chris came out the winner with an 8 letter word, Spoilage, closely followed by Christa with a 7, Reeling. We also had plenty of 6’s the best ...

As we are all aware, a lot of the news isn’t great right now but we had a super conversation last week about what what going on in the world - and Liz even managed to find some positive and uplifti...

Today we had a lovely sing along with Dylan and Kim. Our residents reminisced on the good ol' days, singing songs throughout the ages from Frank Sinatra to ABBA and everything in between!

On Tuesday Sherwood Grange made a start on our Remembrance Day Ceramics project. Busy Lizzy provided cups and saucers with some pretty and meaningful outlines for our wonderful residents to paint. ...

The lovely Nick come sing to us from mini concerts. It is always a pleasure to have them come sing for our residents. We had songs from the likes of Elvis Presley, July Andrews and Frank Sinatra. E...

Sherwood Grange Care Home

The singing CRM. It's never a chore for me to bring my guitar in. It's wonderful to see the reaction that music has with our residents, especially people living with dementia. You can see sparkle a...