Activities at Archview Lodge Care Home
Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.
Diane Wood
Hi, my name is Diane and I am Head of Activities here at Archview. I have worked in the homes since 2009.
I strongly believe in creating moments for our residents and embracing their individuality with tailor made activities, whilst remaining person centred and respecting resident’s preferences. Every day I like to ensure the residents on memory lane can enjoy themselves and have a good time whilst forming bonds with each other and the staff around them.
Outside of work, I have a 23 years old son and a wee dog called Hugo and my ambition is to make people smile and be happy.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 Archview Lodge Care Home
Beat The Clock
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.
Harrogate Chocolate Factory
We had a brilliant time across our services with Harrogate Skills 4 Living as they took us on a wonderful virtual visit to their Harrogate Chocolate Factory.
Residents were thrilled to discover details about the chocolate-making process and the fascinating journey from bean to bar, all while enjoying some delicious sweet treats.
The Factory aims to employ people with learning disabilities and autism, involving them in all parts of the process, from sorting and roasting the beans to packaging and sales. The experience was truly enjoyed by all who joined this event.
Diamond Wedding Anniversary
Tom has worked here at Archview for 15 years just past. Tom is very well liked here by all residents, staff & family member’s he’s always singing and such a happy person. Tom is our gardener here at Archview and takes pride in his garden. Tom can put his hands to anything he even joins in with our drama prep so a big thank your from Archview’s activity team. T
om & his wife Janette big congratulations “On your Diamond wedding anniversary, we send you all love on this very special day. Sixty years of giving happiness, love and loyalty to each other must not go unmarked. We wish you many more years of love and good health love from all residents , staff & family members.
Norma's Wish
We made Norma’ s wish come true. When I was speaking to Norma asking her is she had a wish that we could make happen Norma came out with The Hollies where Norma used to volunteer there for 49 years she told us. So we made her wish come true we went off to the Hollies and had lunch.
The Hollies is a day Centre in Musselburgh High Street. Norma told us she used to get the bus to Dalkeith from Mayfield where she stayed then from Dalkeith to Musselburgh every day. Norma was so happy that we made her wish come true.
Sponsored Silence
Once again myself Diane has decided to help a local girl Sophie Walker that has been fighting cancer for many years. So I contacted her mum & aunty that was a member of staff here in the past. So I came up with an idea another sponsor silence so I asked our resident Jean & staff member Graham if they would like to join in. So on the 13th March it all happened. The 3 of us were quite for 1 hour.
It was very hard for us 3 as everyone knows how chatty we all are and lots of our collages were trying to get us to chat but we all stayed strong and done an excellent job. So all donations will be going towards her treatment.
London Ladies
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.
