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
Get Moving!
We invited the children from Rosedene Nursery to come and join us for part of our Get Moving week. We invited them for a mini sports day, we did egg and spoon races, running races and hoping races. We placed lots of different things around the garden for them to do. From bean bag toss, tin can alley, bowling, ring toss, badminton, and golf.
We taught them how to play boules and loved watching them create their own games from what was around. They picked some flower's and gave them to the residents. They even competed against our amazing staff at egg and spoon race. They all received handmade medals that the residents have been making for them for their mini sports day
Celebrating Carers Week
This week, we celebrate our amazing carers who are dedicated to their jobs. We spent time making home-made cards for the staff to show our appreciation. They received a hamper full of sweet treats, and each individual got a pen and keyring as a little token of our appreciation.
Our carers were invited to join us in the library today to collect their items. It was so lovely to see so many smiles when opening their handmade cards.
Without the care staff, our home would stop, and we know how amazing and hard-working each and every one is.
Wonders of the ocean
Residents across our services enjoyed a fantastic virtual tour of The Deep, an award-winning aquarium in Hull.
Our residents dived into the underwater world of some fascinating creatures such as sharks, turtles and stingrays.
It was a truly immersive and educational experience that brought the wonders of the ocean right to our screens.
Baking Club with favourite Be-Ro recipe
Residents love our weekly ‘Baking Club’ and this week the plan was to make some delicious butterfly cakes using the Be-Ro recipe, a much loved cook book we all remembered owning!
We enjoyed taking it in turns to mix it the ingredients and to make it as light and fluffy as possible. We enjoyed sharing stories on our favourite items to bake, and in turn making it into a list for our future baking club bakes.
Our favourite memories were of licking the bowl out – who wouldn’t!
Rosedene Nursery visit with their Olympic torch
We enjoy our visits from our friends at Rosedene Nursery, Northallerton. The children came over to show us their Olympic torch which they had made to show all their values and to bring us all handmade medals they had been making throughout the week using lots of different items and colours.
The children were so excited to show off their hard work and give out medals, telling us what we had won them for. Residents and colleagues were delighted to receive and proudly wore them all day with pride.
We look forward to them visiting again soon.
National Biscuit Day
We celebrated biscuits in the best ways possible! We started off by baking some yummy biscuits as part of our popular weekly ‘Baking Club’, before testing our knowledge with a biscuit themed quiz.
Activities Assistant, Barbara and two wonderful residents took the biscuits around the home for everyone to try including those we had made earlier. Fig rolls seem to be the favourite biscuit choice!
We spent time reminiscing of making biscuits and having one with a cuppa and we can’t wait to do it again next year.
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 .....
