The mount ephraim house 'sewing bee' started today

We now have some residents who like to sew, and volunteers jenny and Roy recently presented us with s brand new sewing machine.... Today jean finished sewing up the Easter chicks and new girl Betty came along to watch. She has promised to sew some things for our craft fair - must thread up the machine tomorrow!

 

NCT visit

Easter art and craft today

Such a beautiful warm and sunny day today and some people took the opportunity to sit outside on the patio - to read, relax, have a manicure or just sit and chat over tea.... The games room was buzzing with activity - patty was painting chicks, Marie made Easter cards, jean took to painting eggs and was joined by her son, alistair... Iris did some watercolour painting. Jenny our volunteer brought homemade cake and roy made the tea!
Many of the other residents were enjoying Heather's class - Music for Health - and a few lucky ladies had visits from their families....great start to spring!

Greensleeves accolades 2013

Celebrating achievements of the 17 homes within the group, the accolade event was held at The Kia Oval in march this year.

Mount Ephraim House was recognised and short listed in the following categories- activities, gardens, innovation, fundraising,colleague of the year, carer of the year, and Home of the year. We are pleased to report that our Nkkita won the innovation award and Dianna got a special presentation for her 40 years service! Gemma received a framed certificate for 'carer of the year' at MEH and Catherine and Dianna received their level 2 diplomas in Housekeeping. Karen was very proud of her team and was only just pipped at the post for the 'manager of the year' award - although to MEH staff and residents she is already!  

Friday - busy bee's

Tuesday

Easter art and craft projects with jenny and Roy - great fun, very creative and good excuse to join in for cup of tea and Jenny's home made cake. Later Joan took a stroll in the garden before supper

Looking back to last week ...

Glitz and Glam as MEH headed out to an awards ceremony to the Lancaster Hotel although no awards were won a fantastic night was had by all.

We look forward to entering more awards  as they are great for MEH and for staff morale.

Residents and staff arranged a birthday surprise for Marilyn.........

Staff and resident's gathered in the lounge to celebrate Marilyn's upcoming birthday.
Marilyn was presented with some beautiful  flowers, champagne, presents, and some cards.
Resident's and staff also shared a chocolate birthday cake.
On this note we would all like to thank Marilyn for all she does at MEH she is a valuable member of our team and we all wish her a very happy birthday!

Jingle Bells?

Saturday's activity revealed resident's hidden talents when Campanology began........

Marie, Eileen, Dawn, Mary, Peggy, Sheila and Di began bell ringing they played Mary had a little lamb & Jingle Bells amongst other tunes.

There was a natural sense of rhythm and Marie in particular produced some great notes.

It was a fun activity and will hopefully happen again very soon.

remembering Win

the beautiful flowers from Win's funeral yesterday  were delivered to mount Ephraim afterwards, and some of the residents helped to arrange them into vases for display around the home; a lovely tribute to a much loved lady who will be sadly missed.

good news friday.................

LOCAL CARE HOME SCORES HIGHLY IN NATIONAL SURVEY OF RESIDENTS

MOUNT EPHRAIM HOUSE, has just taken part in the country’s largest and most authoritative survey of care home residents. The results from the survey have been made public today, performing strongly.

 

The nationwide survey, called Your Care Rating, is designed to give residents a voice, putting

their care at the heart of understanding more about how well care homes perform

 

KAREN COOPER at MOUNT EPHRAIM HOUSE said: “We’re delighted with our results from the 2013 Your Care Rating survey as it demonstrates how fulfilled our residents are.

The survey was compiled by leading research company Ipsos MORI with input from the care home operators taking part, plus the National Care Forum (NCF) and the English Community Care Association (ECCA).

Thursday

Crafty Tuesday .....

Jenny and Roy came armed with goodies today for residents to craft in time for the Easter celebrations .... From painting polystyrene eggs to knitted chicks, there was something for everyone to try

Meanwhile Eileen took a trip to PC world to sort out a new laptop .....

Later, the volunteers from Twgs came along to play scrabble with Marie and Mary

In memory of Helen ...

Helen (aka Lady Helen!) recently passed away peacefully and her funeral was held today; a service of thanks for her life. She was a very happy person, always had a smile and enjoyed life to the full. The residents remembered her today with a tea party in the lounge; she will be sadly missed and our thoughts are with her family

Happy Birthday Joan

Wishing a very happy special birthday to our very dear volunteer, Joan. We had cakes with coffee in the library today during the weekly Monday Club ... The residents sang 'happy birthday' even though we couldn't find any candles for the cake !

Happy birthday Marion

                                                 Marion celebrated her birthday on Sunday!

Remembering Olive

We held a memorial tea for Olive on Friday after the funeral service. She used to love the quiz sessions at MEH in particular and so we arranged a general knowledge quiz, hosted by volunteer Christiana, in her honour, after the tea party. it was well attended by her fellow residents - she was such a clever and popular lady and would have been very chuffed!

Thoughtful Friday

Gary brought in his lovely dogs for the residents to see.....
one puppy left that he is going to keep with her proud mummy!

susan is contemplating knitting yet another square...!

 

soon be time for walks on the common.............

bingo balls at the ready today.........................

 

eyes down for a full house....

 

thursday fun....

charity came to do the residents' hair today, the sun came out this afternoon, we had a visit from some students from Greenwich Uni and the NCT babies and their mums met up in the library.... someone brought bubbles which the babies loved...
joan, mary and peggy enjoyed their art, patty did another poster and new volunteer Nadia arrived armed with lots of questions for the Thursday quiz...oh,and we had a residents meeting to talk over the issues of the day!!