Activities at White Lodge Care Home

We have been so fortunate this weekend to receive plant donations from residents’ families. Next week is our garden planting week when we will be working on the sensory garden and starting to create the memorial rose garden. We have a lot of garden to fill so welcome any donations of plants and flowers! Thank you so much for the donations to date we look forward to showing you the gardens over the coming weeks

We have an impressive school of Scrabble Gamers made up of our residents at Barchester White Lodge! It has now officially become one of their favourite, top played board games on both Lakeside/Dovecote and Memory Lane floors. Our clever residents are coming up with great word combinations and equally impressive scores. To keep up with demand, we've had to order a second Scrabble board so each floor has their own.

Its a perfect indoor activity to do when the weather changes and heavy rain and hailstorms come down. As well as improving cognitive skills, it's a fun social event with dare we say, a slightly competitive edge!

On a wet bank holiday Monday we took the opportunity to enjoy some cake! Residents really enjoyed decorating delicious vanilla buns and there were not shortage of tasters as we all enjoyed them with a cup of tea! We were also delighted not to have to wash up after with willing helpers on hand. White Lodge is a home from home and afternoons like this make us all feel we are really achieving this for our residents.

We had the pleasure this week of presenting the prizes from our "Hug the Home with Bunting" competition. Senior Activities Coordinator Tina Hughes presented the prizes to Laura Hilliard, Head Teacher of Brinkworth Earl Danby's CE Primary School and winners Freya and Olivia from Longleaze Primary School. We would like to thank all the children for their wonderful pictures and congratulations to the winners. The bunting has bought all the residents so much joy.

White Lodge combined exercise with lots of fun and laughs.  Residents thoroughly enjoyed a game of balloon tennis, armed with fly swatters and balloons being thrown about.  This was a great activity for exercise and improving eye-hand co-ordination, plus a lot of laughs along the way - now that's what we call a win win activity!

Flower arranging is a fun, relaxing way to spend the morning with our creative residents! Bringing the outdoors in and brightening our spirits, especially on a rainy day like today, these lovely ladies created some beautiful floral arrangements to decorate the reception area, dining room and cafe lounge.  White Lodge really is in bloom the arrangements really are stunning.  We joked that we should start taking orders!