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Friday, January 29
2nd Year Anniversary
by
Zoe
on Fri 29 Jan 2010 18:45 GMT
I can’t believe another year has gone by! Yes, on
the 28th January I celebrated my 2nd year at Valerie
Manor. I wanted to say thank you to all the staff, residents and not forgetting
my wonderful family and my partner Robin who made it all very special for me. I
received, cakes, presents, flowers and cards from everyone and it was an excuse
to enjoy a little sherry together!
I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone
for their support during the past two years, without the fantastic team and
support from the relatives as well we wouldn’t have such a happy home so thank
you to everyone and here’s to many more happy and exciting years at the Manor!
Thursday, January 28
Congratulations to Cath!
by
Zoe
on Thu 28 Jan 2010 18:45 GMT
 Another success story! Congratulations to Cath who
has joined her colleagues and passed her NVQ level II in Health and Social
Care. Cath has worked extremely hard over the past year and it is a great
achievement for her. I’m very proud of Cath as at one stage she was finding it
quite hard but was so determined she remained focus and carried on despite of
everything.
Friday, January 22
Activities and Menu Review
by
Zoe
on Fri 22 Jan 2010 21:07 GMT
 I do apologise for the gap in our weekly blog last
week. I think everyone was concentrating on the snow and unfortunately a lot of
our activities were cancelled due to the weather. Robin was one person who was
snowed in for a while... I must say it was lovely to have her back
entertaining the residents again this week, with John also working on the
maintenance for me! It’s great to have you back mum and dad!
Robin started this week with a review of the
activities that we have at Valerie Manor. The meeting was enjoyed with all the
residents and some relatives while having a cup of coffee and a lovely
chocolate éclair! I’m pleased to say that it appeared that everyone is enjoying
what we are currently doing and there were very minimal suggestions for change;
We are going to get a ‘score board’ so that we can write things up and keep
scores etc when the residents are taking part in games, my what a competitive
group we have! There was also the suggestion of ‘story telling’ which I think
is a fantastic idea which we will introduce soon.
Our care assistant Sheri will soon be driving the 'Jalopy' (mini bus) with her
colleagues as she is now insured to take the residents out - which means there
should be more trips as it won’t be reliant on me!
The menu review was held on Thursday with myself –
I must say it was so nice to sit down with the residents and staff together for
over an hour! The residents say I am always on the go and often tell me to
‘slow down’!
It was lovely to chat about the food the residents
like and it was also good to have input from some relatives and staff. The
relatives helped us with things that the residents used to like at home which
was great! Again, I was pleased to hear that in general the residents are very
happy with the food they have at Valerie Manor and there isn’t a lot that they
want to change. Some of the food that they have suggested which we will add to
the menus are sweet potatoes, broad beans, spotted dick and good old fashioned
lamb stew with pearl barley (I still love it when my mum cooks that for me!).
Friday, January 8
December Activities Summary
by
Robin Bates
on Fri 08 Jan 2010 19:16 GMT
Happy New Year everyone !
I hope everyone enjoyed a great Christmas and New Year.
Here’s to a very peaceful and healthy 2010 !
Goodness me it was like a whirlwind at Valerie Manor in
December... Zoe and the Staff’s feet hardly touched the ground ! Everyone works
so very hard to ensure a lovely time was enjoyed by our lovely ladies and
gentlemen. I must mention all the volunteers who came along to decorate the
Manor and pupils from The Towers School not forgetting the Reverend John
Challis. I know from past personal experience that time is one of the most
treasured gifts you can give !
Lots of entertainment was enjoyed in December. Our dear
Brian paid us a visit as did Rita and Peter, SG Productions performed ‘The Magic
of Christmas' and not forgetting the lovely children and adults from my Dance
School. The ladies and gentlemen planned their own Christmas/New Year Menus,
made Christmas Crackers, enjoyed Musical Christmas hats and played getting the
‘snowballs’ in the box.
After Christmas I went along intending to do some exercise
with everyone but instead of that we had great fun in the lounge taking down
decorations, everyone helped and had a few ‘stockings’ to empty of paper
stuffing....so it was a physical event after all....Whilst all this was
happening we were singing along to Billy Cotton....go on....own up if you
remember him !
Be careful in the snow !
Robin x
Friday, January 1
SG Productions - The Magic of Christmas
by
Zoe
on Fri 01 Jan 2010 15:11 GMT
As the residents loved SG Productions 'Hooray
for Hollywood' so much back in the Summer we booked them again for 'The Magic of
Christmas' over the festive period. I must say, it was a truly magical show where the residents and staff all
sung along, laughed and cried at times as memories came back. The show was filled
with numbers from musicals in London and popular Carols were sung by all after
watching the array of costumes, colours and dancing.
You can visit the SG Productions website here; www.sgproductions.co.uk
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