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
World Chocolate Day
Residents whipped up a selection of different chocolate treats from chocolate logs to cupcakes and chocolate fudge cake. Once they had cooled, everyone got busy decorating with chocolate buttercream, marshmallows, chocolate buttons, maltesers and KitKats make some of the most fabulous chocolate creations in town. In the afternoon everyone got to enjoy the treat while listening to Sue and Dee singing.
National Cream Tea Day
24th June saw Rothsay Grange mark national cream tea day, we had some beautiful scones with jam and cream and lots of tea. We had a quiz all about tea and scones, we also had songs by Elvis while we chatted a lovely afternoon had by all. Those that were not up to it had them in their rooms so they did not miss out.
Jubilee Celebrations
On 2nd June residents and staff of Rothsay Grange Care Home enjoyed an afternoon with DJ Flava Disco. Lots of singing and dancing the afternoon away. Staff and residents were seen on floor strutting their stuff and singing, fun had by all. They all enjoyed the refreshments made by our onsite chef's Debbie and Simon of a very yummy afternoon tea fit for a queen, the tea was flowing and the bubbles from the prosecco popped!
Father's Day
The morning was spent icing cakes with ties and bow ties as well as domino tiles, these went down a treat with everyone. We enjoyed an afternoon with The Classic Belles, they are new to our home and the residents loved them. Angie sang along to all the songs and danced in her chair with Ann by her side singing along too. It is amazing how music opens up a new world to people living with dementia they come alive, know the songs word from word, their faces are bright and so relaxed and happy this makes me know why I love my job so much. We had a lovely light afternoon tea, made by our onsite chefs Debbie and Simon they always gives us a very good spread today we had cake and biscuits and open sandwiches loved by all the tea flowed and we also had a beer for those that wanted one.
National Doughnut Day
On 7th May residents from Rothsay Grange care home in Andover celebrated National doughnut day. They played doughnut hoopla, tasted different doughnuts even coloured in pictures of them. One resident said that ‘’she did not know we had so many different doughnuts we always had just jam ones’’. The residents had a blind tasting to see if they could tell what doughnut it was, the activities team tried too and it was very hard to tell. We also went out on a trip to see if we could find anymore doughnuts in the coffee shop.
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. Everyone enjoyed an afternoon of live music from Jayne Deer. We all enjoyed freshly-baked biscuits and a cake for the occasion, all washed down with pots of tea.
