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
Hilliers Garden Centre Trip
On 17th July John said he would like to visit the garden centre, he choose to go to Hilliers. John and Dennis enjoyed looking at all the different kind of foods on offer some we did not know.
We went out to look at the flowers and come across a butterfly bush which had lots of butterfly’s and bee’s on it. We chatted to staff and other customers as we walked round the shop.
John ordered a bread pudding which led us to him reminisce about his Grandma and his visits to see her, she made the best bread pudding he told us.
Dennis had a victory sponge he was amazed at the size of it, he was also over the moon that he could pour himself the tea from a pot. He told us about how they used to use tea pots when he was a child.
Some people say that taking residents out to garden centres is not a good trip to do but our residents love it and today has proved that you can learn so very much about a person with just a tea pot, just a piece of bread pudding. We had fun, we met the community, we saw wild life, we learnt something new about two of our residents.
The whole trip was just about our two lovely men, they relived days gone by, met some of the community so all in all a very good trip out.
An Afternoon on the Farm
Residents at Rothsay Grange had a great time down on the farm, we gained permission from the owners of the horses you can see.
They got John to help them with the horse's too.
Rita used to run a riding school and she was in her element there and did not want to get back on the bus bless her.
We sat and watched the world go by oh and trains. We also heard a lot of birds singing but could not work out the song.
it was an amazing, relaxing time with cool drinks and an ice cream. What more could you ask for.
We would like to thank the owner of the horses who let us help.
A Dream Coming True
This is a big dream coming true for our head of unit Annmarie, She wanted to come in on her day off and take her floor to the beach so we come up with a plan to do this. Floor staff also come along to enjoy the day meeting us there on their time off too.
The residents enjoyed fish and chips right on the beach with ice lolly s on the way home.
It was that nice some went off for a paddle too. We have one more trip for this floor then it will be the next two floors turn to feel the sand between their toes too.
It is a great felling bringing dreams to life but this is life at Rothsay Grange we aim to please.
National Fish & Chips Day
Residents and the activities team went out for fish and chips to mark one of the best days of the year.
The residents choose to go to the fish shop in the Drove and take them to Carlton lakes but sadly no parking! we all forgot the kids were off on half term. So we all made a decision for the driver to take us somewhere quite but scenic and did she do that YES.
We ended up on Param Down, what a beautiful place to sit and have your fish and chips. We meet a lot of nice people walking their dogs or off on a jog who stopped for a chat.
The residents said they all had a great time Anna found some spent bullets and gave one each to those that wanted a souvenir of the day. The downs are part of Salisbury plain that the army use to train so you can find them very easy.
Celebrating the King's Coronation
Staff, residents and families in the home put their heads together and came up with a plan for their celebrations fit for a King. Over the bank holiday we had a barbecue with Emily singing everyone’s favourite songs. The whole home came together to celebrate our new King and talk about the new era the country is entering.
VE Day
We marked the anniversary of Victory in Europe Day in style by throwing a 1940s afternoon tea party to remember. The home was decorated in red, white and blue and we all enjoyed an afternoon of Amanda singing and we all was dancing.
