HAPPY NEW YEAR 2023
Wishing You a Happy New Year.
Welcome Everyone – We hope you had a wonderful and enjoyable new year.
There is nothing like one year ending and another year starting to remind us all At St Anthony’s that time moves so quickly.
Lets all take a moment to remember the joys the laughter, the success and the challenges the old year brought as it passes.
We take this beautiful opportunity to look around with gratitude at our beloved residents, family, and friends and remember with love and warmth the loved ones we have left behind.
The Proprietors, Managers, and all the staff at St Anthony’s residential Home would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. May this year be filled with new adventures and good fortunes for everyone.
Activities Galore
We have been very Busy at St Anthony’s this month as the residents took part in a wide variety of activities from Puzzles and games.
We introduced some new Jigsaw’s to our collection, our residents joined in a small group to complete the puzzle's. One of the best things about puzzles is how versatile they are everyone enjoyed taking part.
Scrapbooking
This month we have also been Scrap booking it has been a wonderful activity for our residents to stimulate and reminiscence as well as take them down memory lane. Residents who took part were given their own scrapbook and then encouraged to stick photos and images that remind them of their life. This activity was also a very useful tool to help our staff to get to know our residents a little more.
Exercise classes
However, it doesn’t just stop there our residents also took part in exercise classes to help boost there mood, improve strength and generally make them happier and more be more content. Everyone really enjoyed this and expressed how happy they were when taking part in such activities.
Poetry Club
The residents also joined in with the poetry club this month and the theme we focused upon was love and peace they really enjoyed this and reflected on the good times.
This newsletter is for the benefit of resident’s families and staff. We hope you enjoy reading it
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR
Wishing You a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Welcome to the Christmas edition of our monthly Newsletter. It contains many of the activities and entertainment that took place over the Christmas period.
Christmas is a wonderful time of the year, and we would like to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from St Anthony’s Residential Home.
How we started December off !!
Happy 90th Birthday Veronica
We started December off by Celebrating the lovely Veronica’s 90th Birthday.
A simple celebration, a gathering of family and friends; here's to wishing you great happiness and a joy that never ends. Veronica’s family and friends really enjoyed themselves and commented on what a beautiful setup St Anthony’s created.
Veronica commented “Thank you I had a lovely time with my family, and I loved my balloons, you really have made my 90th Birthday special”
We love it when we can put a smile on our resident’s faces, thank you the manager Joanne for organising such a beautiful event and memory to last a lifetime for Veronica’s 90th Birthday Party.
Come and take a look at all of the fun activites we have been up to this Decemeber
Our Home is full of Christmas festivity, The trees are twinkling and Mr Clause reindeers are ready to pull the sleigh through the night sky to help deliver gifts to our residents. Our snowmen are also ready to greet family and friends whilst they visit their loved ones this December.
Our residents are encouraged to add decorations to their own rooms, we have also had children from the local community deliver some wonderful decorations to go on to our Christmas trees
Christmas Carols
We had Children from Edmund Campion School vist us to sing Christmas Carols and to spread joy to our residents. It was a pleasure having them visit, our residents and staff thoroughly enjoyed them, they brought laughter and happiness to the home. It was great to see all of our residents and staff join in all of the carols. They then finished the day off with a cheese and wine party which they thoroughly enjoyed.
Christmas Party at St Anthony’s Residential Home.
St Anthony’s residential home had their debut performance of carols accompanied by the local people from the Abbey Church and what a performance they gave.
Our residents and their family members were treated to an amazing buffet afternoon tea made by our wonderful staff team which included a variety of finger sandwiches, savory nibbles, and homemade sweet treats. We adopted the buffet to our resident’s and their family members’ dietary requirements to ensure nobody was left out.
One of our family members commented, “what a beautiful set up I really enjoyed the treats and nibbles”.
However, it doesn’t just stop there we also had a visit from Santa and his helping elve who helped Santa deliver chocolates to all our residents, family friends, and staff. Everybody loved there sweet treats.
Christmas Sing along.
Our residents also Listened to Christmas songs together and were encouraged to sing along. Where a selection of hot drinks were served such as a hot chocolate with marshmallows, gingerbread lattes, spiced cappuccinos, and many others served in.
Christmas Eve
On Christmas eve we had a — Cheese & Wine Party with Christmas Carols and music in the Main Lounge area what a beautiful day the residents commented.
Christmas Day
Our residents had Traditional Christmas Day Lunch with all the trimmings at 1.00 pm, and opened there Christmas presents followed by Christmas fun, games, and cocktails in the main lounge area.
Boxing day
Boxing day galore where all our residents had an extravagant Boxing Day Lunch, followed by Christmas quizzes, sing-along, and games with Christmas treats.
We would also like to say a huge thank you to all the family and friends for your thoughtful Christmas cards and gifts our staff team and residents were very grateful.
If you have any suggestions on what you would like to see or hear about in the future issues, then please get in touch by emailing info@st-anthonys.co we always love to hear from you.
Thank you.