Activities at Mount Vale Care Home

We continue to celebrate a varied life enrichment programme and across our services we linked up with other Barchester care homes and hospitals up and down the country for some interactive Beat the Clock games.  

Our residents truly enjoyed solving word puzzles, conundrums and mathematical problems as part of Barchester’s very own game show series.

Everyone who joined had a fantastic time and enjoyed some friendly competition.

The days are brightening up and all around our lovely Care Home flowers and new life is stirring.  Our residents have been wishing to get out into the grounds, and with the weather conditions a little better, they rugged up warm and did a spot of gardening.  We were very lucky to have had two beautiful miniature Apple trees donated to us by our lovely nurse Liza.

What a lovely time we had coming together and planting the trees. So much knowledge about planting was shared from our residents, who spoke fondly of their gardens, working in agricultural based industries and also some ideas of what to do with the apples the tree produces.

Residents came together for a very special afternoon tea, to celebrate Mothers, mother figures and those who nurture all of creation. We had requests for residents favourite songs and we played them during the Afternoon tea.

Sharing stories of those who nurtured us in many different ways. Residents said they enjoyed coming together and celebrating this special occasion.

We celebrated Saint Patrick's day with good craic,  traditional Guinness, lots of dancing and then if that wasn’t enough, we were visited by our own “Jack” from Therapy Dogs nationwide.

“Jack” visited residents dressed in his Irish Bandanna. Visits from “Jack” and other dogs from Therapy Dogs nationwide lifts spirits and stimulates much sharing from residents about their pets. The sensory aspects of stroking  therapy pets is much appreciated and adds to wellbeing.

As part of our International Women’s Day celebrations, Residents from across our services were thrilled to join tour guide, Mandy Morrow, for an exciting talk about some Legendary London Ladies.

Mandy shared the fascinating stories of eight ladies with us, from the one of the richest heiresses in the world to the original 'Roaring Girl'.

Everyone who participated truly enjoyed the experience and were delighted to take a walk down memory lane.

Across the country our homes and hospitals came together to find out which care home or hospital had the best Bingo players as we teamed up for Barchester’s Bingo Bonanza.

Residents were treated to some exciting virtual games of Bingo as part of Barchester’ very own game show series.

Everyone who participate had a fantastic time and enjoyed some friendly competition.