Activities at Pentland View Care Home

Molly recently celebrated her 90th birthday in style! After getting all glammed up she headed to the lounge to open her presents and celebrate with her fellow residents. Afterwards she very much enjoyed a slice of her lovely birthday cake! To top off  day of celebrating all things Molly, she enjoyed the visit from the Caithness animal Farm and even held a snake!!

We are now doing Zumba sessions with local instructor, Steph, on the first Wednesday of every month. The session is seated, but as you can see sometimes the music just takes you away in the moment and residents enjoy a good boogie! There is much laughter as we move, shake and groove along to familiar and upbeat tunes such as La Bamba and the Macarena! Afterwards, everyone is so happy and often the dancing continues on after Steph has left!

A trip to local museum and café: Residents enjoyed a mini bus trip to the North Coast Visitor’s Centre and museum. Here, they enjoyed learning about local history spanning from the Picts all the way up through the Dounreay exhibits. Of particular interest were stones from the Viking era and farming artefacts, as well as the recreation of a Dounreay work station. They even stopped to learn some about the local flora and fauna and donned hats that suited the theme! After enjoying all that the museum had to offer, they6 then walked across the street to Rosie’s Café where they enjoyed a cuppa and tasty cake along with good banter and chat.

We have recently found ourselves taking a trip to Sea View for games of bowls against the residents in our sister home. On our visit there, Team Pentland won the day! In return, Sea View paid us a visit the following week and we enjoyed more games of bowls, with the teams mixed between the homes.

It was great fun and especially enjoyed as some of our residents have been keen bowlers over the years! We look forward to continuing our friendly rivalry with Sea View with future visits back and forth, and hopefully extending to do far more activities together with our friends in the future!

Residents in our Memory Lane unit enjoy doing various crafts and activities that let their creative juices flow! Here they are working with flowers foraged locally and creating beautiful works of art with them. The finished product looks a lot like stained glass and preserves the dried flowers beautifully.

They look fantastic displayed in their rooms and around the home. Some were even gifted to family to take home with them. What lovely keepsakes!

We will be doing a takeaway night for small groups of residents each month and kicked it off with a chippy tea in recognition of National Fish and Chips day! Residents, Alec, Willie B, Sandra, Rena, Ann, Gail and Barry very much enjoyed their fish and chips from local chippie, Big Fish Little Fish in a Cardboard Box. They all opted for fish suppers and as you can see, were very happy with their choices. There weren’t many left-overs, that’s for sure! Most had the in-house fish and chips for lunch as well. I guess it’s true what they say…you can’t get too much of a good thing! Our takeaway evenings will continue in July with the next group’s choice of takeaway evening.