Activities at South Grange Care Home
Our specialist activities staff are committed to organising a mix of activities and events for residents and the local community to get involved in, including trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and visits from entertainers and musicians. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.
Gillian Conway
Gill has worked for South Grange since 1996. Gill's role in the home is ensuring our residents enjoy a fulfilling quality of life. The programme that Gill and her colleagues provide is stimulating, creative and varied.
Gill enjoys the time she spends with residents and families. The team welcomes any suggestions made by residents and family members in relation to activities.
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 South Grange Care Home
Enjoying the glorious sunshine
Over the last few weeks, residents of South Grange have enjoyed making use of the lovely outdoor areas that we are so lucky to have. Our Seven Arches residents have made use of their patio area to dine out for their meals, soak up the sunshine with music of their choice on the speaker and have meaningful interactions with carers.
Our elderly unit has welcomed the children into the garden for some fun and games in the sunshine, from using the bubble machine to playing hook a duck. Whilst others have spent some precious time with their families and friends whilst participating in family tree making and donut tasting. The activity team love to see our visitors getting in on the action too!
Sprucing up the garden
Activity staff and residents got busy in the garden getting their hands dirty as we celebrated National Bee-friendly planting day. We added some new geraniums, gazania frosty kiss and hydrangeas. Residents chose these flowers as they are known as the most popular for our friendly bees.
Our next task was to add some new additions to our garden to add some more colour and show off our residents' artistic skills as they painted their own wild flower creations onto rocks. They chose their colours from a variety of acrylic paint pens, which was a first for our residents in our home, and they all said they were very easy to use. All our hard work has paid off as our garden now looks beautiful and full of colour.
As always, we were treated to a well-deserved cuppa and a delicious slice of cake for all our hard work!
VE Day 80th anniversary celebrations!
Residents, staff and families came together to celebrate VE Day’s 80th anniversary. Our home was specially decorated for the occasion with flags, bunting and other memorabilia of the special day.
We welcomed back our local ukulele band, Dee Ukes, who entertained us with a variety of old wartime music to some modern-day melodies. Everyone had a great time singing and clapping along. We all tucked into some delicious buffet food prepared by our kitchen team, which went down a treat along with some fizz.
Our activity team dressed up as soldiers and land girls fit for the occasion too. What a great time had by all!
Resident realises dream
Resident, Alison had always wanted to go on holiday to St. Andrews, so staff at the home made her wish a reality, proving the old adage, it’s never too late.
Alison, a resident of the homes Seven Arches community, enjoyed a week in a lodge with hot tub and balcony in St. Andrews was accompanied by nurse, Val and carer, Nikki, who supported her on this getaway.
Alison has lived at South Grange for 13 years and is loved by staff and residents alike. Staff at the home were delighted to be a part of making this possible for her, as they know how much it means to her to be able to live her life to the fullest.
Butterfly flutters
Residents celebrated National Learning about butterfly day by getting involved in looking after our very own caterpillars. Over the course of 3 weeks, residents and staff watched our caterpillars eat, spin, silk and grow. After an amazing week, we saw them hang upside down and turn into chrysalides. When eventually, they completed their transformation into beautiful butterflies.
At the end of the eye-opening 3 weeks, we spent an afternoon in our garden soaking up the sunshine, admiring the stunning colours of the butterflies before we set them free. Our residents were happy they got to hold them before they flew off.
Trishaw Rides
Residents are delighted to see that the outings on the Trishaws with our lovely volunteers at Cycling Without Age Scotland Monifieth are back for 2025. The trishaw rides are very popular within our home with everyone excited to get out in the fresh air, enjoy the sunshine and take in the beautiful scenery around our local estate.
One of our residents said it takes him back to his younger days when he would go on mile-long cycles with his friends.
Frank was the first resident to go out for a ride this time round. He said he had a wonderful time and was very thankful to the volunteers. Frank was accompanied by carer Newan, who also said it was a great experience. Everyone is looking forward to their turn in the coming weeks.
Upcoming events
Volunteers - Could you make a difference?
There are endless ways to get involved and we'd love to hear from you!
Emergency Services - Take a break on us!
Calling all heros! Come and take a break with us and enjoy a warm drink and a slice of homemade cake.
Community Cafe - Last Tuesday of the month
We extend a very warm welcome for our community friends to join us at our monthly Community Cafe - all welcome.
