Category: Springwood

Fun at the Elements Variety Show

It’s that time of the year again. Time for the Elements Variety Show. This spectacular performance organised by our resident entertainers has become an annual highlight for residents, staff, friends and family alike. It’s not always easy to get a seat for the Elements Variety Show! The stage has shrunk and the seating area has […]

Self-Sufficiency at Elements

A constant supply of fresh produce has been made possible by the community garden group at Elements Retirement Village. Our community decided to make use of a natural sun-trap at the edge of the village and create a working veggie plot. In Elements fashion, once the decision had been made all hands got together and […]

Life in our Village

Life in the Elements Retirement Village has been as fulfilling as ever this month. The workshop team put together a set of scent detection boxes for internationally renowned dog trainer Craig A. Murray, as well as providing extra shelving for the library and a gavel for community meetings. Not to mention initial constructions for a […]

Remembrance Day at Elements

The centenary of the final day of the Great War at Elements was, as always, a time of gratitude, respect and remembrance of those that gave their lives in the 1914 – 1918 war. The Elements Community also used this quiet day to send our thoughts to members of our Elements community who left this […]

Miss Pepper visits Elements at Springwood

Our residents at Elements Retirement Living are proud to be involved with the Conpago team and ‘Pepper’, a humanoid robot who is able to recognise faces and read emotions. Pepper was specifically designed to make people happy through meaningful and fun interactions. Elements @ SpringwoodA beautiful, easy living retirement village nestled in the Daisy Hill […]

Village Pets – Pet Friendly Living

Moving is described as one of the most stressful experiences in life, and even when coming somewhere as fantastic as Elements, it’s still an upheaval. Imagine if you had to leave your furry friends behind … Happily, that’s not the situation with our third age community. Elements welcomes your pets and offers them plenty of […]

Life in our Village – Village Update

Pioneers—Celebrating 8 Years! In the week beginning Monday September 6 2010, the very first residents moved into Elements. Ever since, this small group has met up every year around the same time to reminisce about village life back in the early days, and to celebrate longstanding, rewarding friendships. The ‘Famous Five’ would tell us that […]

Construction Update – It’s done. We’re there!

It’s done. We’re there! The final construction work at Elements is complete. It has been an extremely long journey, with each stage offering fresh challenges and opportunities, but also giving Elements residents plenty to see as the months have gone by. From the digging of foundations to the last landscaping tasks, every effort has been […]

Happy Birthday to Chiou See

Happy Birthday Chiou See! Or was that ‘Abba Birthday’? A no-holds barred occasion for Chiou See’s 50th with a distinctive Abba theme was held early last month, and everyone came along to wish her the best, even her old school friends. Elements residents hit the dance floor to a live band and the best, danceable […]

Every Hour is Happy Hour at Elements, especially at 4pm!

We don’t need many excuses to get together at Elements. Happy Hour is one of our longest running activities and right at the beginning, used to be held at unsold properties on the Elements construction site. As unsold units became hard to come by, we changed venues at regular intervals, even hiring a bus (which […]