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Inside this issue

Employee of the month

Wild Science

World Pasta Day

Happy Diwali

Trips to ‘Memory Lane Singing Club

A special birthday!

Halloween

Tree trail

A few words from Barchester

Magnolia Court Care Home

Granville Road NW2 2LH

Tel: 02087319881 • www.barchester.com

Maryam

We are lucky to have such a bright and wonderful carer here at Magnolia, your hard work is much appreciated. Thank you Maryam!

Employee of the month

Barbara with her new award ‘Outstanding Agency Control’

A resident sketch of ‘Bill & Brice in the garden’ by Milton

“We are proud to welcome you to our very first Magnolia court newsletter and would love to share what we’ve been up to this Autumn so far. Our Activity Team have many events planned for us this Autumn and Winter, we have a lot to look forward to, so I hope you all will be able to join us”. -

Barbara Ozga General Manager

Hello and Welcome!

News in and around Magnolia Court

World Pasta Day

What better way to celebrate one of our favorite foods other than learning to make it from scratch..

Memory Lane “Singing for the

brain” Club

We would like to say a big thank you to Otto-Schiff singing club for their excellent sessions – Our residents are greeted with tea & biscuits to get us warmed up for singing our hearts out!

Wild Science We had a visit from Wild Science who brought a

diverse range of animals from the cute and fluffy to the exotic.

Fresh Air

It’s important for our residents to enjoy autumn by being out in it! Watching the colours change and the leaves fall, dogs playing, floating around Childs Hill tree trail, learning the names of the trees and sharing nature knowledge, like the names of the birds and flowers. Diana picked us a Michaelmas Daisy!

Bill the snake charmer & tiny frog friend

Happy Diwali

Diana In the garden with Claude the Hen

Ann making Pasta like a pro & Fresh veg and

herbs picked from our garden to make a pasta

sauce

Michaelmas Daisies

We celebrated the festival of light by making ‘Rangolis’. We dyed rice and made beautiful colorful patterns with our Hindu carer Sonali.

‘Rangolis’ Made by our

residents

News in and around Magnolia Court

THE BIG 100 A very big Happy Birthday to a very special lady, she has been an excellent resident from the get go, so helpful to others and always up for fun. We love Betty so much we made her resident Ambassador of Magnolia Court. We asked Betty what’d kept her so young and she said “Maxfactor, darling.” - What an amazing lady you are Betty – Happy 100th Birthday!

Halloween Things got a bit spooky making decorations here at Magnolia with Bills “Boxer pumpkin – that’s had his teeth knocked out and a black eye” (Don’t mess with Bill) & Milton’s eerie Pumpkin “Philip”.

Boxer Pumpkin

“Philip”

A few words from Barchester

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A great day for Team Barchy

A huge congratulations to the Barchester staff members who completed the London 10k in scorching heat this summer. The atmosphere in Central London was fantastic, with Westminster shut down to traffic and transformed into a moving street party of thousands of people running, cheering and laughing. The runners were also extremely busy fundraising ahead of the big day, smashing their target and raising an absolutely fantastic £2,119 for Barchester’s Charitable Foundation, plus gift aid.

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