I would like to say a huge
welcome to Gill, our new care assistant. Gill has come with a wealth of
experience and has her NVQ II and III to support her caring skills that she has
developed over the years. Gill will be working mainly
night shifts but looks forward to spending time with the residents during
social events and meeting families during the Christmas celebrations. We hope
Gill settles in well and we wish her a warm welcome from all the staff and
residents at Valerie Manor.
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Friday, November 27
Welcome Gill...
by
Zoe
on Fri 27 Nov 2009 20:40 GMT
I would like to say a huge
welcome to Gill, our new care assistant. Gill has come with a wealth of
experience and has her NVQ II and III to support her caring skills that she has
developed over the years. Gill will be working mainly
night shifts but looks forward to spending time with the residents during
social events and meeting families during the Christmas celebrations. We hope
Gill settles in well and we wish her a warm welcome from all the staff and
residents at Valerie Manor.
Thursday, November 26
Lets Dance! for BBC Children in Need
by
Robin Bates
on Thu 26 Nov 2009 20:38 GMT
  Whilst Zoe and our lovely ladies and gentlemen at Valerie Manor were busy enjoying themselves with various activities to raise money for Pudsey Bear, Sally-Ann and I were also having a great time running two Sponsored Tap Dancing Sessions at Let’s Dance! During the afternoon pupils from 3 years old donned Fancy Dress to tap away for 1 hour being sponsored by family and friends and in the evening older pupils and adults spent 2 hours doing the same. I am delighted to tell you that we were pledged £2,126.60 for the Sessions! Sore feet, happy feet. Smiley faces! Robin of Let’s Dance! (Hassocks) Wednesday, November 25
Children in Need - Update
by
Zoe
on Wed 25 Nov 2009 20:41 GMT
 A huge thank you to everyone who supported us last week and donated to BBC Children in Need – and well done to all the residents and staff at Valerie Manor for their efforts! I’m pleased to say that we raised a total of £380 this year, improving on last year’s total. Well done to all! I wonder what we'll get up to next year! Friday, November 20
Children In Need
by
Zoe
on Fri 20 Nov 2009 13:31 GMT
 What a week we have had! I am so pleased to say that we have already raised £325 for BBC Children in Need. This beats the amount that we raised last year so I’m very proud of everyone and would like to say thank you to all who have donated so far. If you'd like to make a donation please visit our JustGiving page; www.justgiving.com/valeriemanor-Pudsey09 We started off the fundraising with volunteer Marmalade leading a Marathon scrabble afternoon, the residents appeared to love wearing their Pudsey Bandanas while they played and didn’t want to take them off at the end of the game! They did stop for a tea break to enjoy Pudsey cup cakes as well! Wednesday the residents enjoyed decorating their own Pudsey fairy cakes and biscuits. Staff wanted to wear the bandanas again but needed the assistance of a resident to tie them - as they couldn’t work out how to adjust on their head! On Thursday our lovely volunteers Vi and Syd came to Valerie Manor and we all enjoyed more Pudsey Biscuits and cakes – I was quite chuffed with myself as this was the first time I had ever baked a cake or made a biscuit! They do say do something that you would not normally do! We then had fun guessing the squares on the Valerie Manor blanket. Joan came closest with a guess of 98 and won a Pudsey Bear (the actual no. is 99!). The residents then set to making more paper chains like last year to keep their fingers nimble and start the decoration process for their bedrooms for Christmas! Thursday they even enjoyed a Pudsey Blancmange! For the finale on Friday the staff will be wearing their Children in Need t-shirts, headbands and bandanas. The residents all get to choose their badges to wear for the day and keep afterwards and we'll be having fun with balloon tennis and ‘name the baby staff’!; most of the staff have brought in photo’s of themselves as children or toddlers and the residents get to guess who is who! We'll have more on Children in Need day at the Manor very soon! 
Thursday, November 19
Storm Damage
by
Zoe
on Thu 19 Nov 2009 16:34 GMT
  Many of you may know that we had a few problems with the weather last weekend causing part of our flat roof to blow off Saturday afternoon. Luckily my dad and Adrian were available to tarpaulin the roof Saturday evening until the roofing company could come out on Sunday. I would like to say a huge thank you to them both for their time and hard work in such terrible conditions. Although the roof has caused some disruption at Valerie Manor over the past week I’m pleased to say that the staff have been fantastic in managing the situation and following the policies and procedures that they have been taught in their mandatory sessions. The main thing is that everyone was safe during the past week and I would like to thank you all for your support and patience while the repairs and re-decoration has taken place. Friday, November 13
Remembrance Day Service
by
Zoe
on Fri 13 Nov 2009 17:08 GMT
  It was a joy to have the 1st Henfield Girl Guide Company back at Valerie Manor for a lovely Remembrance Day service on the evening of November the 11th.  The Guides organised the
whole service themselves which included the hymn “Shine Jesus Shine” and “O
God, our help in ages past” which the residents all sung along to. The service also included the lighting of candles and poems read
out by individual Girl Guides. Along with the singing there were two talented
guides who played the flute and keyboard. It brought back several memories for
many of the residents and staff as we all sung along to “Taps” at the end of
the service. Once again, as last year, it was a touching ceremony as young and old together remembered the fallen of past and present.
Thursday, November 12
Care Training Consortium (CTC) Accolades 2009
by
Zoe
on Thu 12 Nov 2009 17:07 GMT
 The
Care
Training Consortium (CTC) is an organisation set up to support independent (Private
and Voluntary) care providers in West Sussex access information,
funding and quality training and development opportunities. The are currently looking for nominations for the CTC Accolades 2009.The Chair’s Award for Endeavour is for an individual who through own efforts has overcome personal difficulties to not only continue with their learning but to successfully achieve, attaining high standards in the process. I have nominated Emma for this award to recognise her hard work, support and dedication.  Since I have been
at Valerie Manor Emma has always been extremely keen to learn and is very
dedicated and enthusiastic. Emma completed her NVQ level II in medication
handling and administration with the support of myself and other staff although
she found the theoretical knowledge quite challenging. Despite this Emma
battled on and passed the course. After getting the desire to continue with her
education Emma enrolled to undertake her NVQ level II in Health and Social
Care. It was at this time that the trainers discovered that Emma was dyslexic
and put the appropriate support in place for her. To date Emma is doing
extremely well and with her new found knowledge and skills she is now always my
first choice for on call, knowing that she will deal with any kind of an
emergency with professionalism and expertise.
Good Luck Emma! The Accolades ceremony is on the 3rd December, 2009 > find our more about the Care Training Consortium on their website Tuesday, November 10
October Activities Summary
by
Robin Bates
on Tue 10 Nov 2009 15:56 GMT
 Hello, apologies for the delay! Here's a brief summary of last month's activities...We started the month celebrating Oktoberfest with authentic German music and themed lunch and supper. A couple of fun ‘Mind Benders’ were... Happy/Grouchy Stuff and Chicken and/or Egg... smiles all round! Giant Snakes and Ladders, Score a Goal and Balloon Tennis got us all moving. Our tambourines and bells came out to play along to some Steel Drum Music... ’Oh Island in the Sun’ never sounded so good! We have a real musical gang at Valerie Manor... watch out Simon Cowell! The ladies and gentlemen always enjoy their monthly visit from Bryan with his accordion who joined us at the end of the month. Halloween decorations took over Zoe’s study ready for the 31st. Zoe was away for a few days but Emma had all the preparations in hand and made sure the Manor was suitably spooky for the day. A couple of our lovely ladies said they would be out on their broomsticks! Special fairy cakes and ‘Ghost’ biscuits were decorated as a Halloween Activity.  We’re getting ready for the BBC Children in Need. Zoe had the great idea of having a few days of sponsored activities... look out for the posters and please support this cause and our ladies and gentlemen. Watch out for our November ‘Indian Curry Day’ (It’s actually Indian Curry Week but I thought that was pushing it bit too far!). Bye for now Robin Bates x |
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