cqc.gov.uk or ask the office for

a copy. On page 2 of this news-

letter please read Matron’s po-

em inspired by the CQC In-

spection.

Many of you will be aware that

Donna and John use our mini-

bus on a weekly basis to take

individual residents on trips.

Last week we took a resident to

Melton Mowbray Cattle Auc-

tion, which was very successful.

We also took some residents to

Market Harborough Library last

Thursday to listen to ‘Wriggly

Readers’ a reading forum for

Mothers and young children.

They thoroughly enjoyed the

experience and also visited the

library exhibition ‘Early Toys’.

Anyone wishing to participate

in this activity please let Donna

our Activities Coordinator

know.

Firstly we would like to wish

everybody a Happy Easter and

we look forward to seeing

some lighter evenings.

Many of you will know that

Ann’s house is currently on

the market. She would like to

assure everyone she is not

leaving Sibbertoft Manor.

She will continue to own the

business and maintain overall

control. For personal reasons

she is moving to London but

will continue to be fully in-

volved with the company.

Holly Banks will become

General Operations Manager,

taking on much of the respon-

sibility for the day-to-day

operational management of

the business. Tricia, will re-

main registered manager and

clinical lead.

Our new laundry should be

completed within the next 4

weeks. This will be a great

addition to the home. Staff

will no-longer have to trundle

across the stable courtyard to

deposit laundry and Jan’s life

will be much improved as she

will be within the main home.

Once the work on the laundry

has been completed our next

project is to turn the commu-

nal bathroom upstairs into a

hairdressing salon/treatment

room.

As many of you are aware, a

CQC Inspector recently came

Calling! We are proud to an-

nounce that our inspection

report is extremely pleasing,

giving us a rating of ’Good’.

This in itself doesn't sound

wonderful but if you read the

report you will see that it does

not contain a single detri-

mental comment. What a

nursing home has to do to be

awarded ‘Outstanding’ status

is difficult to determine and

Ann gets cross when other

homes are rated ‘Good’ when

they are failing in one or two

areas. However this is politics

and should not detract from

the wonderful contribution

staff make to the success of

Sibbertoft Manor. If you

would like to read the report

you can go online at

Special points of

interest:

Open Day

CQC Inspection

Information about

upcoming trips and

Outings

Local News

Inside this issue:

Sibbertoft Manor

News

1

Local News/

Quarterly Charity

2

Special Events 2

Entertainment

Calendar

3

Activities 3

Staff News 4

Upcoming

Birthdays 4

Happy Easter!

Q u a r t e r l y N e w s l e t t e r

Silverline

Special Events

CQC Inspection Tricia’s poem

A day off from work, a course to attend

Steve and I went to Euston and then onto Penge

We got our connections, travelled fast on the tube

With hundreds of people, no room to move

We had no idea, that during this spell

At Sibbertoft Manor, there’d been a press on the bell

Holly was summoned, from her office in the yard

The Inspector had come, with his identity card.

Ann was out walking, but replied to her phone

Cut short her walk and dashed up to the home

He had the full tour, was shown around everywhere

With Holly and Ann, a very nervous pair!

He spoke with some residents, not a thing did he miss

In the meantime in London I was in ignorant bliss

He interviewed staff and a visitor too

To get a full picture of all that we do

He inspected all day, leaving late afternoon

For Holly and Ann not a moment too soon!

For this inspection to happen, I’d been waiting so long

And then to have missed it, felt very wrong

I know Holly and Ann did all to impress

And showed this inspector we can be the best

And Steve and I, what can we say?

Totally unaware about this inspection day

This year the National Care-

Home Open Day will be

held on Friday 16th June

2017. The theme will be

Friendship and we will have

a Hog roast and traditional

Ice cream stand. We wel-

come all of you to come

along and visit us on that

day.

Our group trips this year

will be visits to Althorpe

Hall, Leicester Space Muse-

um, Tropical Bird Land and

Bradgate Park. The trips

will be organised over the

next couple of weeks and as

soon as details have been

finalised information will be

circulated to you.

Althorpe Hall

Space Museum Leicester

Bradgate Park

Quarterly Newsletter Page 2

You can check out the full

route and more information on

the race at

www.lovedaventry.com/

womenstour/centre

willing to raise awareness for this

charity drive will have £7 donat-

ed for them by the company.

Loneliness is too common with

the elderly and we are in a posi-

tion to help change it.

Womens Tour Bike Race

This year the Women’s Tour

Bike Race will be starting in

Daventry and is scheduled to

be passing through Sibbertoft

on Wednesday June 7th 2017,

and finishing in Kettering.

We are hoping to wave them

on as they pass through Sib-

bertoft, so if any of you would

like to join us to watch the

cyclists then please do.

Last quarter’s

charity was the

Salvation Army

and we are happy to announce

that we will be sending them

£250 from Sibbertoft Manor

Nursing Home. Our Charity

for this quarter is Silver-

line.org.uk, spearheaded by

Esther Ransom. Their cam-

paign is called ‘Silent for 7’ and

highlights the detrimental ef-

fects loneliness can have on the

elderly. Any member of staff

Local News Quarterly Charity

Entertainment Calendar….Come along and join us in the Main Home lounge

Lesley Ann-Singer

Tues 6th at 10:30am

Bless Em All –Cats Pyjamas

productions

Tues 6th at 2:30pm

Womens Cycle Race

Wed 7th June Time TBC

Sue Frisby-Reflexology

Thurs 8th at 10am

Tom the storyteller

Tues 13th 10:30am

Ben’s Exercise Class

Wed 14th 10:30am

Donna’s Church Service

Wed 14th at 2:30pm

National Care Home Open day

Frid June 16th

John Spinner - Violin

Sat June 17th at 2:15pm

Pat Dog Ruby

Mon 19th at 2pm

David Plummer-Sax

Tues 20th at 2:15pm

Lynda –Flower Arranging

Tues 20th at 2:15pm

Ben’s Exercise Class

Wed 21st at 10:30am

Sue Frisby-Reflexology

Thurs 22nd at 10am

Jennifer Greene - Singer

Thurs 22nd at 2:30pm

Afternoon Tea

Monday 26th at 3:00pm

Ben’s Exercise Class

Wed 28th at 10:30am

Simon Moxham - Sax

Wed 28th at 2:15pm

Kyle Keal-singer

Frid 30th June at 2:15pm

Lizzie Violin

Mon 3rd at 2:15pm

Church service

Weds 5th at 11:30am

Ben’s exercise class

Weds 5th at 10:30am

Sue Frisby-Reflexology

Thurs 6th at 10am

LuLu Rose-Yoga

Thurs 6th at 10:30am

Kyle Keal - singer

Frid 7th at 2:15pm

Karen Humphries Beauty

Mon 10th at 10-12:30pm

Tom the storyteller

Tues 11th 10:30am

Donna’s Church Service

Wed 12th at 11:30am

Lesley –Ann Singer

Thurs 13th at 10:30pm

Pat Dog Ruby

Thurs 13th at 2:00pm

Lynda –Flower Arranging

Thurs 13th at 2:15pm

David Plummer-Sax

Tues 18th at 2:15pm

Ben’s Exercise Class

Wed 19th at 10:30am

Sue Frisby-Reflexology

Thurs 20th at 10:00am

Jon Spinner - Violin

Sat 22nd at 2:15pm

Afternoon Tea

Mon 24th at 3:00pm

Simon Moxham –Sax

Wed 26th at 2:15pm

Jennifer Greene - Singer

Frid 28th April 2:30pm

Ben’s Exercise class

Weds 3rd at 10:30am

Church Service

Weds 3rd at 11.30am

Lesley Ann Singer

Tues 9th at 10:30pm

Cat’s Pyjama’s Productions

Tues 9th at 2:30pm

Donna’s Church Service

Wed 10th at 11:00am

Sue Frisby-Reflexology

Thurs 11th at 10am

Scottish Country Dancing

Friday May 12th at 2:15pm

Pat Dog Ruby

Mon 15th at 2.00pm

Tom the Storyteller

Tuesday 16th 10:30am

Ben’s Exercise Class

Wed 17th at 10:30am

Jennifer Greene-singer

Wed 17th at 2:30pm

Lynda Flower Arranging

Thurs 18th 2:15pm

Kyle Keal –Singer

Frid 19th at 2:15pm

Jon Spinner –Violin

Sat 20th at 2:15pm

Simon Moxham –Sax

Wed 24th at 2:15pm

Sue Frisby-Reflexology

Thurs 25th at 10am

Afternoon Tea

Mon 29th at 3:00pm

David Plummer-Sax

Tues 30th at 2:15pm

Ben’s Exercise Class

Wed 31st at 10:30am

Page 3

“Cats Pyjamas Productions” present

“Hollywood Starlets” Tuesday 9th May 2:30pm

“Bless em all” Tuesday June 6th 2:30pm

All Welcome

Ben’s Exercise Class

We have a new singer

vocalist called Jennifer Greene.

Jennifer has trained as a

singer, dancer and actor. Her work has seen

her performing on cruise ships, travelling the world, in

pantomimes, music videos and musicals.

She will be coming to Sibbertoft Manor on April 28th, May 17th and June

22nd

April May June

Poetry Readings on

Thursday Afternoons

Staff News

Sibbertoft Manor is no

longer doing the Star

Awards, however if there

is anybody you feel has

done an exceptional job

then please still give de-

tails to Tricia or the office.

We would like to wel-

come two new nurses to

our team who are Lindsey

Trantor and Jayne Fane.

We also welcome Sabina

Naznean who is a Carer

and we welcome Stefan

Macavei and Mark Avella-

no as Housekeepers.

Jill Gallagher, one of our

RGN’s has decided to take

retirement after 11 years

service at Sibbertoft. We

all wish Jill a happy retire-

ment and are delighted

that she has agreed to visit

once a week for poetry

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Sibbertoft

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LE16 9UA

Telephone: 01858 881 304

Fax: 01858 881 488

Email: office@sibbertoftmanor.com

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recitals/quizzes and general

entertainment. Jill will visit

on Saturday or Sunday most

weeks and, will be available

to residents for three hours

on each oc-

casion.

April

Birthdays…

Peggy Duncan

Pamela Matthews

Mavis Bamford

Mrs G

Edna Luck

Arthur Aldridge

May

Birthdays…

John Hawksley

Sheila Epton

Ingrid Lied King

Joyce Carpenter

Derek Walton

June

Birthdays…

Patricia Grimsey

Virtual Dementia Tour

We have booked the “Virtual

Dementia Tour” again for

Thursday June 8th for Staff

training, however if anybody

else would like to come

along to this experience,

then please let Holly in the

office know on 01858881304

and you can be booked on to

do this

Birthdays! Upcoming residents’ birthdays...

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