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Doves Nest: Remembrance Day Afternoon Tea. We welcomed Adam from The Royal Northern College of Music to come and play the last post to kick start our afternoon. We had sandwiches, vol-au-vents and lots of cakes! Residents have spent the week making decorations and remembering why we have Remembrance Day. Fernlea: It was remembrance Sunday… Read more »
Today we painted Poppies for our penpal scheme at Simon House Nursery and Pre-School. We created a display to send to the children of Simon House, ahead of Remembrance Day on Thursday. Our residents loved painting the poppies and the display!
We kicked off Bonfire night early by having marshmallows toasted on the bonfire and lots of hot chocolate with baileys, brandy, whisky….. you name it, we’ve got it. We have been inside our new pavilion which we can’t wait to utilise fully. Stay safe everyone and have a good night.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! We had an amazing Halloween party this weekend! We’ve spent the month making decorations, listening to spooky songs and getting ready for Halloween. We welcomed Lauren to come and sing for us and we had an amazing time eating spooky cupcakes and cookies!
The Halloween bug has hit and we are having a spooky time. We are having screamfest in the cinema watching classics like The Exorcist and The Birds. We have also been pumpkin carving and painting and today we had spooky continental breakfast. We are having faboooooolous fun
On Friday Fernlea held an event for breast Cancer awareness which was organised by Colette, one of our team as it is something close to her heart. The team wore pink for the day and donated, Colette managed to get lots of donations for the raffle and Sugar and Crumbs with Nifty Nozzles donated the… Read more »
We have had a really nice week at Fernlea. We took our mini bus out for the first time in around 19 months and it was such a nice feeling to be able to offer the residents a trip out again. We started small as we do have to manage the risks out there still… Read more »
We started a penpal scheme at Doves Nest with Simons House Day Nursery in Oldham! As the children have been lerning about Autumn, we added some leaf printing to our letter!
we are 7!!!! we had our annual birthday party on Saturday and the theme chosen by our residents was a 70s inspired party….. this is exactly what they got. 70s music, 70s selfie props, 70s fancy dress and a tasty buffet. Lots of dancing singing and laughing happened which to be fair is not uncommon… Read more »
Yesterday our amazing activity team organised a ballroom dinner dance. The fun we all had was brilliant, we helped our lovely residents get glammed up. We started the afternoon with entertainment by the wonderful Guy Manarin whilst we wore masquerade masks made in our craft session. This was followed by a fabulous three course meal… Read more »
Last week we had a wonderful ‘Rainbow Day’ at Doves Nest. We had some fantastic entertainment and everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves staff included!