Breakfast Club

While all our residents enjoy a hearty breakfast every day of the week, Wednesday is special because Wednesday is Breakfast Club Day. Tables are set with mouth-watering treats and the ‘best’ tea set, soft music plays in the background and between 8.30am and 10.30am, those residents who wish to participate join our activities team for…

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Pets At Home

During the dark winter, our days at The Orchard were made a little brighter by regular visits from our four legged friends. We are always delighted to welcome canine pets into our home and there is certainly no shortage of people to fuss and love them. They give our residents (and staff) so much enjoyment.…

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Clothes Protectors

We’ve had a busy day at Castleford, making our new dignity clothes protectors! The lifestyles team have been hard at work, with a helping hand from Monica, producing these fantastic, dignified, clothes protectors for people to wear at meal times Ray and Monica modelled the clothes protectors and are putting them to the test for…

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Fun in the sun!

The ladies enjoyed their time in the garden this afternoon. They soaked up the sun all afternoon!

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Scone Masterclass

Some of our ladies have had a masterclass in scone making this morning. They have mixed, whipped and tested our wonderful bakes!

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An Egg-ception donation!

On behalf of everyone living at Castleford, we would like to thank Aimée Jane Fennell, from the Sydney-May Trust for their incredibly generous donation of Easter’s eggs! 🌟We were planning to save them until Easter Sunday, but Monica and Sheila couldn’t resist an early Easter treat! 👀Thank you so much, we’re very grateful

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Pensioner’s Tea Party

Today we were invited to Theale Green School, for a pensioners tea party, we had so much fun.We played quiz games and bingo, then we listened to a student sing .We had a lovely afternoon tea with lots of yummy food , all prepared by the students.

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