Highcliffe Nursing Home

02/03/2026

Bananas, strawberries and cream, chocolate and syrup not to mention the traditional lemon and sugar - residents, family members and staff enjoyed a lovely selection of pancakes and crepes before Ash Wednesday! 😍

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19/02/2026

Residents, family members and staff enjoyed celebrating Lunar New Year! 🇨🇳🙌

In celebration of the Year of the Horse, we created red envelopes and shared oranges as a sign of good fortune.

We also watched the live celebrations on tv, and read our predictions for the new year.

Jackie and her life long friend Judy enjoyed making their envelope. Beryl, Brian and Cynthia enjoyed the group activity 🐎

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18/02/2026

Our ticket to travel around the moon!! NASA will log Highcliffe Nursing Home's name onto an SD card which will then travel with Artemis II and its crew on their next mission around the moon.

Carol and Estelle with the tickets! 😍🚀

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17/02/2026

We had a lot of fun in our sing-a-long session 🎶

Some good old songs with residents, relatives and staff taking turns to sing on the microphone, and a bit a dancing too. Residents also enjoyed tea, coffee and home made cakes.

There was a lovely atmosphere in the lounge 🙌

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16/02/2026

We had an amazing visit from the crew at Christchurch Fire Station.

Unfortunately, it was raining so we were unable to take residents out to view the Fire Engine but, they brought some of the equipment indoors for us to look at, and even try on.

Kyle provided a speech on the equipment and fire safety. The whole crew then mingled with the residents, relatives and staff telling stories and enjoying tea and cake.

A huge thank you to the crew for a very enjoyable visit.

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16/02/2026

We had an amazing games morning in the main lounge. We used the electric table where residents were able to interact with Koi Carp in a pond, play fruit to splat another fruit, Mah Hong Hangman and matching pairs. We then played Beetle - rolling foam dice to get numbers for the beetle body parts, followed by balloon tennis - trying to keep the balloons off the floor all before lunch.

A fantastic morning of games - excellent fun.

16/02/2026

Retro Rita treated us to a wonderful selection of love songs, with residents singing along and enjoying a little dance.

With heart-filled decorations and plenty of red around the room, everyone finished the afternoon with tea, coffee and freshly made cakes. A lovely celebration enjoyed by all! 💜🍰

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16/02/2026

Some lovely food was prepared by our chef and the kitchen team for Valentine's Day Lunch.

For starters we had parsnip soup followed by beef stew with mashed potato, broccoli, carrots and cauliflower and for dessert lemon drizzle cake.

For afternoon snacks we had a selection of sweet treats - profiteroles, cinnamon biscuits and marsh mallow chocolate cookies

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16/02/2026

We had a good move and groove session using pom poms for grip exercises and hand to eye coordination whilst listening to 1950's music. Due to the great atmosphere and the fun factor, it didn't seem like exercise 😍🎶

Barbara holding her favourite colour blue pom-pom doing grip exercises. Catrina well coordinated in her red. Estelle enjoying the music. Robin delighted it was Friday 😁

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15/02/2026

We celebrated Winnie the Pooh day by playing build a Winnie the Pooh. With four dice and Winnie the Pooh identical pictures cut up into sections, residents had to throw the dice for the right number to get sections to build their Winnie the Pooh picture.

Carole from Activities brought in her Winnie the Pooh collection of characters.

Beryl enjoyed throwing the dice - she was determined to get the right numbers to build her Winnie the Pooh picture. Brian happy completing his Winnie the Pooh picture.

14/02/2026

We had a fantastic afternoon of entertainment with the very popular Mike Sideaway 🎶🙌

Lots of show tunes, and many other favourite sing a long songs. Brian and Carole from Activities enjoying a dance together.

Joan and her son Colin enjoying the songs. Some dancing at the back of the room - Jon and his wife Val, and Lucy and Brian 💜

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