Activities at South Grange Care Home
Our specialist activities staff are committed to organising a mix of activities and events for residents and the local community to get involved in, including trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and visits from entertainers and musicians. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.
Gillian Conway
Gill has worked for South Grange since 1996. Gill's role in the home is ensuring our residents enjoy a fulfilling quality of life. The programme that Gill and her colleagues provide is stimulating, creative and varied.
Gill enjoys the time she spends with residents and families. The team welcomes any suggestions made by residents and family members in relation to activities.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at South Grange Care Home
Halloween at South Grange
Residents and staff got in to the spirit of things by decorating the home, creating Halloween decorations, icing spooky cupcakes prepared by the home’s chef and hosting a themed Halloween cinema afternoon with ghoulish treats and finishing the day of with party games.
Halloween Concert
South Grange staff and residents welcomed back our local musician Paul Sullivan for our annual Halloween Concert. Paul played a range of songs for us, the oldies brought some of us to tears with our memories. We had a great afternoon singing, dancing and clapping along.
Spooky movie afternoon
Barchester’s South Grange care home, in Monifieth, was a den of ghoulish activity as the home’s spooky Halloween weekend got in to full swing.
Residents and staff got in to the spirit of things by decorating the home creating Halloween decorations, icing spooky cupcakes prepared by the home’s chef, hosting a themed Halloween cinema afternoon with ghoulish treats, having a disco with Halloween-themed songs, music, mocktails and party games
RSPB Feed the Birds Day
To celebrate Feed the birds Day, we made our own toilet roll bird feeders. The residents covered the tubes in lard and covered them in bird seeds.
Everyone loved the idea of using cardboard because it will allow the birds to break it down and use it for nesting.
We’re looking forward to putting our final products out into the garden once the rain stops and seeing the birds enjoy these.
What a positive bunch we have!
This month at South Grange we have been focusing on being positive. We have made up our own positive affirmation board.
Practicing daily positive affirmations can help you overcome fear and self-doubt and reduce self-sabotage. Daily positive affirmations help you believe in yourself and what you're capable of achieving.
Halloween crafts with local nursery
We had a busy morning with our local Grange nursery children around the topic of Halloween. We had a themed story book called the Pumpkin soup, it made us all think of our tummy’s. We also helped the children make pumpkin sun catchers.
Upcoming events
May
The month of May is the gateway to Summer and we have lots of fun things planned!
Volunteers - Could you make a difference?
There are endless ways to get involved and we'd love to hear from you!
Emergency Services - Take a break on us!
Calling all heros! Come and take a break with us and enjoy a warm drink and a slice of homemade cake.
