Brampton View

July 2016

What’s Inside Activities Photo Album 2

Oomph! Spotlight 5

Song of the Month 6

Staff & Resident Photos 7

Bowling Champion 7

What’s Ahead 8

Resident Spotlight 9

Dates for Your Diary 10

Employee Spotlight 11

Puzzle of the month 12

Manager’s Corner 13

Welcome! Summer is here! Hopefully we will

have lots of lovely weather so we can

enjoy as much time as possible in our

garden. Our first summer event is a

big BBQ and live country western

music on the 8th. Also note in your

diaries that our Summer Fête is August

19th. More great information and upcoming events inside!

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Photo Exhibition Here we have a selection of photos of some of the moments we’ve shared this past month.

We also enjoyed an afternoon of Pimm’s and Strawberries &

Cream waching the Wimbledon and look forward to

watching more matches this month.

We have pulled out our fancy hats for many fun occasions this month

including- the Queen’s 90th, Ascot ladies’ day and Wimbledon.

We had a lovely stop at the Windhover

Pub

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Enjoying the Sunshine

We have enjoyed spending time in our

gardens as well as spending time at

the beautiful spots just on our

doorstep. We visited Brixworth

Country Park, the Windhover Pub,

Brampton Stables Café this month as

well as Sywell Aerodrome.

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Best of British

We had a lovely day

celebrating all

things British on

Care Home Open

Day with all our

favourite songs

sung by Peter

Wayre with a nice afternoon tea.

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Sywell Visit with our RAF Veterans

Norman Smith and Norman Chown’s wishes to see airplanes again were granted with a fun

afternoon out at Sywell. Our RAF veterans had a look around the museum, watched the spitfires

do tricks and finished the day off with tea and cakes in the café!

Oomph! Spotlight

This month’s theme is A Wide World of

Sport! Please let us know if you have

any song suggestions.

Join us on any of the many sessions

throughout the building as listed on your

programme.

Weekly sessions are held in the

Meadows Lounge every Thursday at

11am and in the Signal Walk Lounge

every Tuesday at 11am. Multiple

sessions are scheduled for Valley Mews

throughout the week.

Featured

Wishing Well

Pat’s wish was to be able to garden again.

This month Pat made her very own fairy

garden to look after.

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Song of the Month The Sound of Music

The hills are alive with the sound of music

With songs they have sung for a thousand years

The hills fill my heart with the sound of music

My heart wants to sing every song it hears

My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds

That rise from the lake to the trees

My heart wants to sigh like a chime

That flies from a church on a breeze

To laugh like a brook when it trips

And falls over stones on its way

To sing through the night

Like a lark who is learning to pray

I go to the hills when my heart is lonely

I know I will hear what I've heard before

My heart will be blessed with the sound of music

And I'll sing once more

Our record player has arrived!

Join us each evening after tea in

the library to listen to our

favourite songs. Donations of old

records greatly appreciated!

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Staff and Residents’

Monthly Photographs

In Memory

We would like to say goodbye to Grace

Tooley, Peter Valentine, Les Hales

Patrick Elderkin and Kay McDonald. You

are greatly missed.

‘Those we love can never be more than a

thought apart. For as long as there’s a memory,

they live on in our heart.’

We will always cherish the memories.

Our June Bowling

Champion is June

Flower!

Congratulations!

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July Events and Activities

NEWS Summer Fête

Friday, August 19th

We are now booking stalls our

summer Fête. If you know anyone

interested in having a stall, please

contact Activities at 0164 850700

We are also collecting raffle items if

you are having a clear out. Thank you

for your support!

Wed 6th 2:30pm- Reminiscence World with Robert

Thurs 7th 2:30pm-World Chocolate Day Tasting event

Fri 8th 2.30pm – Annual American BBQ

Sun 10th 2.30pm- Wimbledon Final Party

The Wimbledon matches will be available to watch in the lounges throughout the

week.

Wed 13th 10am- Shoe Sale

Thurs 14th 2:30pm- Bastille Day Wine and Cheese Afternoon

Tues 19th 11am- Exercise with Neil all day -Vision Call Visits

Mon 25th 2.30pm- Poppy Picnic

Sat 30th 2:30pm- Friendship day Cheesecake social

Interesting

Facts about this month Birthstone: Ruby Flower: Larkspur or Water Lily

World War I began. (1914)

Walt Disney's Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California (1955)

The bikini makes its debut at a Paris fashion show. (1946)

Bugs Bunny debuts in Warner Brothers animated cartoon "A Wild Hare" (1940)

Charles E. Minches of St. Louis, Missouri fills a pastry cone with two scoops of ice cream, and the ice cream cone is invented.(1904)

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Resident Spotlight

Aunty Win

Where did you grow up?

I grew up in London and moved to the areas of

Hampsted, Highgate and Camden Market as a

child, later settling in Edgeware.

What is your fondest memory?

When I had my son.

What is one thing you are really good at?

Making people smile.

What is your favourite season and why?

Summer, because it’s nice and hot!

A piece of advice to share?

Be good and be happy like I am.

Feedback Thank you for the wonderful feedback this past month. We

love hearing from you all. Any questions comments or

concerns, please drop us a note at reception or by post.

Thank you!

Many thanks,

Brampton View staff

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Poppy Picnic

Monday, July 25th 2.30pm

You’re invited to…

an afternoon tea fundraiser in the

garden

American BBQ Friday, July 8th 2.30pm

With live country western

music by the Dentones

Games, burgers, hot dogs and more!

You’re invited to…

Brampton View’s Memory

Café

Our afternoon will include

socialising over tea and

cakes. Come along and bring

a friend or two!

Thursday 7th June, 2-4PM

You’re invited to join us as we celebrate

Friendship Day

Saturday, July 30th 2.30pm

Tea and Cheesecake Social

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Residents

We would like to wish

Happy Birthday to:

Nancy Birch, 5th

Margaret Sketchley, 8th

John Tew, 10th

Ken Harris, 11th

Margaret Hanlon, 11th

Barbara Home, 16th

Monthly Party This month’s birthday

celebration will be:

Friday, 22nd July

2:30PM

in the

Signal Walk Lounge

with music by Mick

•••••••••••• Bright ideas •••••••••••• If you have suggestions of things to do or places to go please let us know. We love getting suggestions! If you are a Resident who would like to share your ideas to a group, please visit this month’s Resident/Activity Meeting on Monday 4

th June, 2:30PM in the Signal Walk Lounge.

Birthdays this month!

Employee Spotlight:

The employee of the month this month is

Amanda Clark!

Amanda is a Senior Care Assistant

on Valley Mews and has worked at

Brampton View for 5 ½ years

She grew up in Northampton

Has many pets: 2 cats and 3

rabbits

Is engaged to her partner, Simon

Amanda has twin daughters as

well as a daughter and a son.

She enjoys rock music, horror

films and the colour blue.

Her dream would be to live in

Weymouth, a favourite holiday

spot.

Thank you, Amanda for all you do!

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Brampton View Care Home

Brampton Lane, Chapel Brampton, Northampton

NN6 8GH

Tel: 01604 850700

bramptonview@brighterkind.com

brampton-view.brighterkind.com

www.brighterkind.com/colinton

Manager’s Note Hello,

I would like to say a big thank you to all who visited us at our Care Home Open Day

event. The Best of British raffle raised £63 towards a few new garden benches.

We also had a lovely day of seminars with Mark Harrison this month. Thank you for

supporting this event and joining us as we learn more about Dementia.

The redecorating in the Meadows lounge and dining room is now complete as well as

the carpeting of Valley Mews. Thank you for your patience during that time.

Vision Call will be in again this month on July 19th

. There will also be a selection of

shoes available for sale on Wednesday, July 13th

at 10am.

If you have any comments or concerns, please feel free to visit me.

Kind regards,

Andrea Goodall

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