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
Fijian Choir
One evening, we had a wonderful Fijian choir come into the home to sing traditional Fijian carols and traditional English ones. This rounded off a very busy day of festivities.
Chinese New Year
We marked the year of the Rooster with having a cheinese food tasting afternoon and a quiz. Residents enjoyed learning what year they were born into and what traits they may have. We all had our fortunes told when we all opened out fortune cookies.
Burns Night
We started our Burns night celebrations with a dram of whisky, traditional fruit cake and shortbread, we had a scottish quiz to test the residents and realatives knowledge which became quite competitive, Lots of laughter and fun was had by all involved- might of had something to do with the whisky :D. We had some tradiotional bagpipers to pipe the haggis in and one of our kitchen staff addressed the haggis. The pipers then played some traditional scottish tunes for everyone to enjoy before they all tucked into there neeps, tatties and haggis and cranachan for dessert.
Hollywood Hearthrobs
On the afternoon of January 23rd we were taken back to the 50's for the Hollywood Hearthrobs show with Betsy, Entertaining us with her 3 costume changes and interesting facts about films and the stars who played in them, Such us Doris Day, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Marilyn Monrie and Debbie Reynolds. Resients throughly enjoyed her show and loved singing, clapping and toe tapping along.
Open Day Afternoon
On the afternoon of our Open day, we had the lovely Paul Nicholas come anf sing to the residents and visitors. We welcomed the Deputy Mayor of Test Valley Councillor Carl Borg-Neal to spend the afternoon with us, He interacted with the resdients, visitors and staff where he answered plenty of questons and enjoyed the entertainment, tea and cake all homade by our onsite chef.
Open Day Morning
On the morning of Friday 20th January we had our open day where we invited friends of the home and general public to come and view our home. We decided to have a coffee morning in our coffee shop area, where we gathered with some residents for morning coffee and a general knowledge quiz. Residents enjoyed having a chat over cake and hot drinks before the quiz commenced.
