Activities at Mount Vale Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
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 PAT dogs, 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.
Louise Chapman
Hi my name is Louise I have been working at Mount Vale since 2010. I am the activities co-ordinator, I am here to promote the wellbeing of our residents and ensure they have a variety of activities to get involved in. I love finding new creative ways to engage our residents and involve our local community.
I am a dementia champion for the home and enjoy continuing to learn and find more things I can do to help promote the wellbeing of our residents.
I love spending time with each individual getting to know them so I can add individual needs into our plans. I love building strong relationships with our residents and families.
I am a crafty person and can be found doing diamond arts and lots of other creative things when I am not at work. I love spending time with my family and going for walks with my dog Dottie and cuddling my cat Loki.
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 Mount Vale Care Home
Home donate to local Children's Ward
Staff and relatives have been busy collecting chocolate Easter Eggs to donate to the local children's unit, within South Tees Friarage Hospital.
Staff members and one of the volunteers, Denise, attended the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton to donate over 30 Easter eggs to the children's day unit. Denise kindly volunteered her time and dressed up as the Easter Bunny to add Easter magic to all who saw her.
International Carrot Day
Today, we have celebrated International Carrot Day. Residents and staff wore a variety of carrot-themed outfits, carrot colours, and headgear.
Residents came together to make carrot muffins and decorate them. Residents were treated to carrots and dips alongside a brew.
Residents then attended The Willow Beck this afternoon for a happy hour and carrot-themed quiz. Enjoy a wide range of drinks and snacks.
Mother's Day
Here at Mount Vale, we celebrated Mother’s Day over three days, including a visit from popular vocalist, Pete Johnson, who performed a medley of our favourite songs, including Sweet Caroline.
We spent time together and showed our creative sides in creating some wonderful artwork, designing cheese boards and trinket boxes, while enjoying some wonderful Mothers' Day cakes.
Families joined residents for a wonderful Sunday roast turkey dinner with all the trimmings made by our second chef Dana. All our ladies at Mount Vale, we're given a little treat to celebrate the day.
Happy Mother's Day!
Comic Relief
Staff and residents at Mount Vale took part in a bake sale and cake competition to raise money for Comic Relief’s 40th Red Nose Day on March 21st.
Staff and residents at the home donned their red noses and fashion wear from the last 40 years and got stuck in to help raise funds for this very important cause.
Residents and staff at Mount Vale Care Home were all very supportive and were there to join in with the fun and enjoy the cakes being sold.
Shamrocks & Guinness for Paddy's Day
Residents and staff celebrated all things Irish for St Patrick’s Day this week. The home was decorated with shamrocks and everyone dressed in green to mark the day.
Staff and residents at the home marked the day by making shamrock decorations, learning some Irish words and phrases, going on a virtual tour of Ireland, listening to a live performance by popular vocalist, Mike Carter who had all the residents and staff up doing an Irish jig, continuing the party with a happy hour where the top voted drink was Guinness. Head Chef Danny prepared a fantastic Irish spread including Irish corn beef hash and cupcakes all washed down with Guinness or an Irish whisky.
Crazy for Crufts!
Residents have been glued to their screens to watch the pups being put through their paces. They have been avidly watching the judging of all the different breeds and waiting to see which dogs have been selected to go through to the next round of judging. But best of all, they love the agility competitions where the dogs all seem to have so much fun!
Residents and staff have been watching their therapy dog, Alfie and owner Wendy at are at crufts at the Therapy Dogs nationwide stand. We are so proud of Wendy for all of her hard work for the charity. Wendy and her dog Jack won the Harriet Hart award for outstanding service to the charity. Wendy and one of her boys visit us monthly, which is a highlight of the month for many of the residents at Mount Vale Care Home.
Upcoming events
Dementia Cafe - 2nd Friday of the month
We know the importance of supporting our local community and we extend an invitation to you to join us at our monthly Dementia Cafe.
Could you be a Volunteer?
Do you have any spare time and could make a difference? If you are interested in Volunteering we'd love to hear from you.
Community Cafe - Last Thursday of the month
We extend a warm invitation to you to join us at our popular community café - All welcome.
Emergency Services - Take a break on us!
Calling all emergency personnel - come and take a break with us! There may be a cake or two available .....
