Activities at Cheshire Grange Care Home
The activities team are constantly striving to meet the varied needs of everyone who lives in our home, offering a wide range of group and individual social events. There are regular visits from entertainers, along with craft activities, baking, games & puzzle days and pampering sessions, which fill the week. However, we can always find time for outings and just spending that little bit of special time with residents who enjoy the peace and quiet. We aim to bring the activities to the individual, whilst making it a whole home experience.
Jo Eland
After originally starting at Cheshire Grange in May 2015, I'm delighted to be back in the role of Activities Coordinator. It is a privilege to be in this role and spend time, getting to know our ladies and gentleman and their loved one, whilst doing all the fun things that can make such a difference to their days.
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 Cheshire Grange Care Home
Harvest thanksgiving
With the summer drawing to a close and the Autumn colours starting to show we talked to our residents about what this time of year meant to them, many talked about farmers gathering the harvest, picking apples and the church Harvest Festivals. We asked residents what they’d like to give thanks for and used our sentiment tree to create an eye catching display for all to share in the café area.
Edinburgh Botanical Garden
Our homes enjoyed a wonderful virtual tour of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh with Community Engagement Manager, Charlotte Walker, and Botanic Cottage Operations Co-ordinator, Laura Gallagher.
The residents were thrilled to learn more about the history of the beautiful Garden, which is now a home to an impressive plant collection from around the world.
Charlotte and Laura also gave a demonstration of making fresh herbal tea and were happy to answer our questions. The virtual experience was truly enjoyed by all who joined.
Back to School
As we all know, our Grandparents have a habit for giving some interesting advice and our residents at Cheshire Grange when asked thought it would be a good idea to share some of their words of wisdom with those starting school this September. We created cards to send out to all the local schools with such pearls of wisdom as ‘Do your very best and be confident’, Your Mum & Dad did this and so can you…be brave’, ‘Be good, listen and try your best, that’s all you need to do’ and ‘Keep your nose clean ..and your hands!’.
Residents enjoyed revisiting their school days, remembering the kind teaches and those who maybe weren’t!
Beach Party
The spirit of the seaside came to Cheshire Grange as residents and families enjoyed a Summer Bash. The dining rooms were decorated to set the scene for a seaside inspired menu created by the hospitality team, including a fish medley served in a basket, in the afternoon Dean Sinclair came to entertain us, looking like he’d just stepped of the beach in Hawaii, residents and visitors had a great time singing along to summertime favourites, there was a visit from the ice cream van and lots of laughs with our seaside photo cut out.
Home pay their respects
The Cheshire Grange were sadden to watch events unfold on TV on Thursday 8th September, as the news of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth IIs passing filtered through. The residents were naturally quite shocked especially after the recent Jubilee Celebrations, we spent a lot of time watching the news reels, remembering and sharing stories of the late Queen.
We wrote condolence messages which we hung from our sentiment tree surrounded by photographs of the Her Majesty laughing and smiling, as this was the predominant comment made by the residents about how she enjoyed life.
Beautiful bouquets
Our homes had a fantastic time joining members of the Wallace Collection for an amazing sensory session.
During the live virtual experience, our residents explored one of the museum’s most beautiful Dutch flower paintings and learnt new drawing techniques.
We cannot wait to put our creative skills to a test and produce beautiful paintings of our own.
Everyone enjoyed the lovely talk, we all had lots of fun and it’s given us plenty of ideas.
