Activities at Alice Grange Care Home
Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.
Penny Allen
Hi, my name is Penny and I am the Lead Activities Coordinator here at Alice Grange.
I have many years of experience working in care homes in Activities, leisure and lifestyle roles.
I love being part of the Alice Grange team and supporting our residents to live their best lives with fun, interesting, and varied activities available every week. I always feel that the residents' input into our weekly planner is important as it gives all residents equal opportunity to explore new interests as well as keeping up with previous passions and hobbies.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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 Alice Grange Care Home
National Bread Day
This week we made the most of National Bread Day with some wonderful donations by The Cake Shop Bakery of Woodbridge.
Residents tried a dozen types of bread including spelt, sourdough, ale and classic farmhouse. We tried several recipes to create our own bread with great successes. Topped off with some wonderful bread pudding creations from our kitchen team.
Bring & Browse Lounge
Bring And Browse Lounge. Can You Help?
We now have a Bring & Browse Lounge at Alice Grange. This quiet lounge on our second floor has been set up to for residents to drop in and browse through a collection of books, magazines, newspapers and activity booklets. There is also a selection of confectionery and postcards for the residents to enjoy. Residents can also bring and donate any magazines, books or newspaper they have finished with.
This lounge is quickly becoming a central part of the community at Alice Grange in a way somewhere between the village library and corner shop. Providing a space for residents to socialise in a relaxed atmosphere.
We are looking for donations of books (fiction and non-fiction), magazines (particularly hobby/craft publications) and activity booklets (Sudoku, Word searches, Crosswords, quizzes) along with confectionery.
If you have anything that you can donate please contact alicegrange.reception@barchester.com
Armchair Exercises For Residents And Staff
Professionally led armchair exercises allow everyone to join in with gentle techniques to stay fit, healthy and limber. Staff always join in with these sessions, together we will prevent the lockdown from slowing us down.
Our carers and nurses make sure that residents are able to participate to the best of their abilities and enjoy themselves at the same time.
Longleat Safari Tour
This week we have been enjoying and learning on a virtual tour of Longleat Safari Park.
The guided tour included information on many of the 1200 animals that live here and followed the drive-through route through the Safari Park.
The journey began amongst the giraffe and zebra of the East Africa Reserve, before heading into the notorious Monkey Drive Through. We also enjoyed close encounters with Longleat's big cats, rhinos, camels, ostriches, flamingos, vultures and antelope.
Interactive Table Fun
Our interactive table is used all over the home for a variety of entertainment and communication purposes.
From playing word games, to video calling loved ones, to streaming music concerts, our interactive table can be used by every resident. As it is transportable it can be taken into bedrooms for those wanting a private chat with family or it can be used to play a film that can be enjoyed by all in one of our lounges.
In the near future we are also going to be getting a Magic Table which is an interactive light projector which has a range of features and games to promote social interaction, dexterity and communication.
Games And Competitions
A relaxing afternoon of games, tea and cake in one our comfortable lounges quickly turned into a competitive tournament complete with friendly banter and careful score keeping.
Enjoyed by all especially the winners!
