Activities at Rothsay Grange Care Home

The ‘Breakfast Club’ at Rothsay is now running three times a week at different locations around the home with details always on our activity sheets.  The team serve up a delicious array of pastries, jams and preserves, hot drinks and more and the club is proving popular and is getting quite a regular following. What a great way to start the day sitting around a beautifully laid table with some friendly chat, a browse of the paper perhaps or listening to the radio and of course delicious food!  After breakfast there are always activities on offer and a popular favourite is a gentle session of relaxing colouring. Perfect!

Rothsay residents welcomed back a group of pupils from The Mark Way School who came and shared in a brilliant morning of pancake eating and fun! The pancakes were served with an array of toppings prepared by our chefs which all went down a treat and necessitated eating more than one, and there was lots of chat and fun around the table as we tried to decide which topping was our favourite - food for thought indeed! The boys also turned their hands to pancake tossing with mixed results as it's definitely more difficult than it looks, and then completed their visit by doing the washing up - absolutely the perfect guests. Thank you to the class and teachers for sharing their morning with us, we are looking forward to seeing them again soon.

It’s always busy at Rothsay but as well as the wonderful larger events we hold,  providing meaningful activities is also about the quieter moments and smaller group or individual activities that we share with our residents around the home. Knowing our residents interest’s and likes helps us to programme activities that encompass these interests, but there is always room for spontaneity too, and if our residents want to do something else or an opportunity presents itself unexpectedly we are happy to oblige!  Baking Club and making snacks are favourites, as are games such as 'Four in a Row '. Just in the last few days we have had a bit of impromptu flower arranging when a bouquet arrived, selected some plants at the garden centre (and had tea and cake!) and read the local paper  - just a snapshot of the moments we have shared.

Residents and staff visited the Friends Of Ludgershall to present a cheque for £155 raised at the home’s Christmas Fayre, and to introduce themselves to the members of the group as they are our nominated charity for 2024. Linda, the Chair, her team and all the 50 members present gave us the warmest welcome and it a fun afternoon. Entertainer 'Little Joe', who we had organised along with cakes for tea, sang a great set of music that had everyone joining in and even dancing! The group  meets weekly at the Ludgershall Memorial Hall and supports local residents by organising a day that includes an exercise class in the morning, a hot lunch followed by some entertainment and tea as well as outings during the year. We are looking forward to getting to know the members and welcoming them to events at Rothsay during the year.

Residents celebrated the birthday of 'The King', Elvis Presley with their very own Elvis in the building to sing the afternoon away. By popular demand there were all the familiar and well- loved Elvis hits which everyone clapped and sang along to, and there was a great tea provided by the chef team made up of what we were reliably informed were the favourite nibbles of the man himself presented on suitably themed table settings . It was a great rocking and rolling afternoon!

Music is such an important part of life here at Rothsay and especially at Christmas as we enjoy carols and Christmas songs.  Over the past few weeks we played host to a fabulous variety of musical talent as residents have enjoyed visits from Vigo School, Ayers and Graces and Kathy's Choir who all performed carols and traditional songs.  We have also had Little Joe, Craig, The Festive Duo and Jayne Deer who gave us afternoons of more contemporary Christmas airs but, whatever the musical genre, they played to enthusiastic audiences who joined in, danced and thoroughly enjoyed the music of the season.