We’ve had a super couple of weeks here at Princess Christian Care Home, with our fill of music, poultry and cakes!
We enjoyed a brilliant sports day at a local school recently and came away with certificates, awards and medals between us! Our residents had a super time and thoroughly enjoyed the barbecue and watching all the children play.
Our Helping Hands team have been busy planting winter bulbs and clearing up our gardens in recent weeks. They have also helped with laying tables and assisting our fine dining team. This has proved very popular with our residents.
Last week we had a wonderful trip to Guildford Cathedral with a minibus full of our residents. We watched a local school perform songs, play musical instruments and recite poetry. It was such a pleasure to watch the different talents on show and our ladies and gents really appreciated it.
Last Saturday a group of our residents went to our local West End Fair where they admired all the beautiful floral displays on show, sampled the local cakes and cookies (why not!) and watched all the different village displays. They also met lots of chickens and ducks in the auction tent which was fun. One of our residents fell in love with some chickens, so we had to check the minibus when we got back to make sure she hadn’t smuggled any back with her!
We welcome singer Phil to our Home on Friday and everyone loved to singing along with him and some residents even got up to dance with staff. Great fun! We also made the most of the sun last week and took our residents out into our back garden to play a variety of garden games, followed by tea and cake.
Friend of Princess Christian, Sylvia Stock, presented an award to our Knaphill Unit this week in recognition of the excellent care they had given her wonderful husband Brian who sadly past away a couple of weeks ago. She brought with her a huge cake made for all the staff to say thank you. Rest in peace dear Brian, you shall be missed.
Pet Therapy dog Skye visited us recently. She’s such a beautiful dog, with a lovely temperament and all our residents look forward to seeing her each week.
We are all very much looking forward to our next penpal visit in October. We are hosting a Halloween party for our visiting children, so we will be busy making Halloween decorations and finding some yummy Halloween recipes that we can make for them.
We celebrated our Manager Mario’s birthday this month. He enjoyed two large cakes and a huge hamper of goodies from all the staff. Our lovely resident Vic also celebrated his birthday on Sunday with his family. He was also presented with a delicious cake from the kitchen staff – so we’ve all done well for cake this month!
