Activities at Mount Tryon Care Home

Ria Willett, General Manager at Mount Tryon Care Home in Torquay, and Annmarie, Activities Co-ordinator, had the absolute privilege of visiting Moorland Community Caring.

This wasn't just any old visit, this was a visit with a difference. They were honoured to be able to present the Group with a cheque for £1000. This was awarded to them on behalf of Barchester's Charitable Foundation - a grant towards the continuation of this fantastic group which, among other things, aims to reduce isolation for the elderly.

Moorland Community Caring is a small, local charity, serving the communities of Ashburton, Bovey Tracey local charity, serving the communities of Ashburton, Bovey Tracey and Buckfastleigh. Since 2016, they have supported people in a variety of ways, including delivery of a NHS Well-being Programme, Dementia Wellbeing programme, Social Events and Befriending.     

We had a fantastic day at Mount Tryon for National Pizza Day. This morning, we made our own muffin pizzas, and our peri chef, Giles, entertained us with a fun pizza-making demonstration. 

After that, we sat down to eat our homemade muffin pizzas while taking a pizza quiz, and this evening, we savoured our chefs' pizzas for supper.       

Here at Mount Tryon, we constantly like engaging in unique events. So we chose to do fruit art. It's much more difficult than it appears, but we had a blast. 

And along the way, we enjoyed these delicious refreshments. Healthy and Fun!    

We enjoyed our morning of baking here at Mount Tryon, making our own mince pies to be added to shop-bought ones.

Our deputy chef, Jo, was blindfolded and tasted all the mince pies we had available. Our residents' mince pies won because the pastry was just the right amount of sweet.

Our ladies did a fantastic job in our baking activity.     

In honour of World Kindness Day, our residents at Mount Tryon painted stones by hand, adorned them with actual dried flowers, and penned heartfelt notes to express gratitude to all of our employees.  

We would like to express a huge thank you to local artist Becky Bettesworth, who joined us at Mount Tryon for our International Women's Day Event.

Becky is an artist living in South Devon creating beautiful, vintage style poster prints. Becky joined us and created a marvellous afternoon displaying her artwork and holding an inspirational talk.

Everyone that attended had a wonderful time. It was a truly uplifting afternoon celebrating the strength and achievements of women. Once again, thank you so much.

We are already looking forward to your next visit, where we are lucky enough to be piloting the HeART Box. A calm, meaningful creative experience designed to encourage connection and reflection through art.   

Each month, Barchester Healthcare put on a virtual live event for all of our homes to watch. This month was live Harp. This encouraged us to invite Luc and his harp to come in to play live for us. We had a wonderful afternoon.   

Our residents at Mount Tryon look forward to our weekly workout with our physiotherapist Assistant Ewaen, who provides Movement for Health. This week, Ewaen performed arm and leg exercises utilising lightweight, resistive bands, which promoted strengthening of muscles and reaching movement.

Everyone had a great time.     

We had great support when family and friends attended our residents' and families' Christmas Carols evening here at Mount Tryon.

We thoroughly enjoyed singing all of our songs while sipping mulled wine and enjoying mince pies.     

After the holidays, St. Mathias Pre School returned to Mount Tryon this week. 

We always look forward to their visits; they showed us all of their toys, sang us some beautiful songs, and one of our residents read them a story. The children will be coming every two weeks.

Today, as it was Plant a Flower Day, we planted our Echium 'Pink Fountain which attracts bees to help pollinate our garden. We are hoping this will grow tall in our garden as it can reach 10 feet.     

We made the most of our brollies because it was National Umbrella Day at Mount Tryon. 

Our charming residents and our dedicated staff had a tour our lovely garden. With our trusted umbrellas.      

Over a cup of tea and cake, our residents and staff at Mount Tryon had a great afternoon participating in our Knit and Natter group. Everyone joined in knitting or just chatting, and we were all reminiscing together. 

It turns out that our home administrator, Tanya Kostova, is an expert knitter!     

An amazing Day of Remembrance at Mount Tryon. We laid our poppy wreath by our Veteran Homes Manager Ria Willett, our 104-year-old Nigel and a fellow veteran. 

After that, we had a brief ceremony during which our residents recited poems and participated in a wartime sing-a-long.

We spent a great morning at Mount Tryon, learning new serviette folding techniques, and we were happy with the way everything turned out.