Activities at Rothsay Grange Care Home
The activities coordinators at Rothsay Grange work 7 days a week to ensure there is a variety of planned group and one to one activities to suit all individual needs. The activities consist of weekly running activities such as chair zumba, Music therapy, an Arts club and many more. We also run a weekly minibus trip to local places of interest giving everyone a chance to have a trip out of the home.
Rothsay Grange also knows how to have a good old tea party alongside some fantastic entertainers and productions that visit the home on a regular basis. Irene and Aimee feel its very important to have the residents that live here to have a fun and fulfilled life and encourage them to attend as many activities as they wish.
Irene & Leah
Irene and Leah have been working together since 2019, and thoroughly enjoy planning and providing activities for our residents. They are a great team and always bring joy and fun to wherever they are in the home.
Leah has worked at Rothsay since she was 16, as an apprentice carer, and has worked her way into a position that she loves.
Irene has many years’ experience in working with vulnerable adults and children, and also started working here as a care assistant several years ago, before moving on to senior carer and then into the activities coordinator role.
Both love seeing the way that residents' lives are enriched with the activities they provide, and love interacting with all the residents in our care.
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 Rothsay Grange Care Home
Song and Dance
There is nothing we love at Rothsay more than a good musical session and we have a whole range of wonderful entertainers and singers who come along to the home. The afternoons are always great fun with lots of interaction, including the odd bit of taking over the microphone, and certainly hardly an afternoon goes by without a group getting on their dancing shoes! There is nothing like music, singing and movement to lift the spirits and promote wellbeing so we won't be stopping any time soon.
Animal Magic
Everyone at Rothsay just loves our animal visits and they always generate lots of smiles all round! We regularly have our cuddly cavies in attendance and they are so perfectly portable in their little baskets that they can be taken wherever there is a resident who would like to see them and there is usually an orderly queue forming! The same can be said for Rag the PAT dog who with his owner regularly comes in and does the rounds of the home. This cheeky little chappie is so gentle and engages with everyone so wonderfully and he is definitely a firm home favourite. Thank you to all our animal visitors, we love seeing you.
Helping Andover Food Bank to have an Eggscellent Easter!
Following an appeal for donations of Easter Eggs to be dropped off at the home, residents took them down to Andover foodbank where Chloe was delighted to receive them and add them to the all the other eggs that local businesses and organisations have also donated. They will now get incorporated into parcels that will start to go out next week in time for Easter and we hope that they will brighten the day for someone. Thank you to everyone who contributed.
Andover foodbank provides emergency food and support to local people in crisis working in partnership with local agencies and professional care workers, and residents talked to Chloe about how we could support them at other times of year and help them with the amazing work that they do. In the meantime we wish Chloe and the team a very happy Easter.
Our Resident Ambassadors Have Been Busy
Our Resident Ambassadors Peter and Jackie have been very busy over the last few weeks as they have carried out their roles by representing our residents at various events. Peter was delighted to be able to welcome the Mayor of Test Valley Councillor Phillip Lashbrook and his wife Linda to officially launch Rothsay's new look following refurbishment, while Jackie welcomed and thanked Carol from Smile & BEe KIND a local group in Andover who carry out random acts of kindness and dropped in some tasty treats for residents. Lastly, but not least, Peter toured the home on International Women's Day handing out bouquets of flowers as he went and even serenading the lucky recipients with a song! It's been a very busy few weeks here at Rothsay so a big thank you to you both for being such great Ambassadors for the home.
Rothsay Officially Celebrates its New Look
There was a great party at Rothsay as, following completion of the refurbishment, the home’s new look was officially opened by The Mayor of Test Valley, Councillor Phillip Lashbrook accompanied by his wife Linda. With the home looking festive the ribbon was cut, toasts were made and visitors from the community and our wider Barchester family, which included our Managing Director (South) Natasha Lazovic, were able to enjoy a tour of the home and a delicious buffet prepared by the home’s chefs. Residents also enjoyed a party which featured music from Little Joe where there was a fantastic celebratory party mood with lots of smiles, plenty of dancing and a great atmosphere as everyone ushered in the start of a new era for Rothsay Grange.
Valentine's Roses Are Red at Rothsay!
Residents, friends, family and staff enjoyed a lovely Valentine's celebration at Rothsay where they were entertained by Just the 2 of us. Amongst the delicious tea there were suitably heart-shaped cake and biscuits prepared by the home's chef, the dining room was dressed to reflect the theme of the day, there were red roses for everyone to take away and there was plenty of fun, laughter and dancing during what was a happy afternoon filled with smiles. There is nothing we like more at Rothsay than a celebration - here's to the next one!
