Activities at Mount Vale 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 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.
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 Mount Vale Care Home
Colouring Competition
Our local children’s nursery Rosedene, took part in the Barchester colouring competition. Our Residents chose the winning picture which was 4year old Oliver. We went along and presented them with a giant Bunny for the winner Olscar and took bags of chocolate eggs for the rest of the children. The children loved it and took turns congratulating Oscar, who as you can see was very shy!
Easter egg hunt
Residents and colleagues at Mount Vale welcomed the children from Rosedene Nursey to the home for their annual Easter egg hunt. They presented Elsie with cookies they had just baked for our Residents to enjoy before they hunted round the gardens furiously trying to find the chocolate. Resident watched from their Rooms and loved seeing the Children. Elizabeth loved chatting to the little ones.
A trip to the garden centre
Resident, Mandy had a lovely day out at the homes local garden centre, a walk around the park followed by lunch at a local café. She had a great time.
The Astor's at Cliveden
Our residents came together to enjoy an exciting virtual talk courtesy of the team at National Trust Talks Service. The illustrated talk took us closer to one of Cliveden’s most famous families, the Astors. Our residents were able to discover what motivated William Waldorf Astor, America’s richest man, to purchase Cliveden in 1893 and how the estate became the centre of high society in the 1920 s and 30 s thanks to his son Waldorf and daughter in law Nancy Astor.
The Collection
We had a lovely time joining Holly and Marie-Therese from the Wallace Collection, for a virtual introduction to the Collection, followed by a sensory exploratory walk through one of the museum’s most famous landscape paintings. The Collection ranges from Old Master paintings to 18th century French furniture, arms and armour. We all had a wonderful time and cannot wait to put our creative skills to a test and paint some landscapes in the upcoming days.
Mother's Day
Our home was beautifully decorated with fresh flowers and bunting in recognition of Mother’s Day and all the mothers in our home.
During the day, we arranged individual flowers for our female residents, enjoyed a delicious afternoon tea party and shared stories about the role of mothers.
Our residents got creative and made their own flower bouquets and flower frames, as they enjoyed a variety of yummy sweet and savoury treats. There were smiles all around the home.
