Activities at Archview Lodge Care Home

We continue to celebrate a varied life enrichment programme and across our services we linked up with other Barchester care homes and hospitals up and down the country for some interactive Beat the Clock games. 

Our residents truly enjoyed solving word puzzles, conundrums and mathematical problems as part of Barchester’s very own game show series.

Everyone who joined had a fantastic time and enjoyed some friendly competition.

We had a brilliant time across our services with Harrogate Skills 4 Living as they took us on a wonderful virtual visit to their Harrogate Chocolate Factory.

Residents were thrilled to discover details about the chocolate-making process and the fascinating journey from bean to bar, all while enjoying some delicious sweet treats.

The Factory aims to employ people with learning disabilities and autism, involving them in all parts of the process, from sorting and roasting the beans to packaging and sales. The experience was truly enjoyed by all who joined this event.

Tom has worked here at Archview for 15 years just past. Tom is very well liked here by all residents, staff & family member’s he’s always singing and such a happy person. Tom is our gardener here at Archview and takes pride in his garden. Tom can put his hands to anything he even joins in with our drama prep so a big thank your from Archview’s activity team. T

om & his wife Janette big congratulations “On your Diamond wedding anniversary, we send you all love on this very special day. Sixty years of giving happiness, love and loyalty to each other must not go unmarked. We wish you many more years of love and good health love from all residents , staff & family members.

We made Norma’ s wish come true. When I was speaking to Norma asking her is she had a wish that we could make happen Norma came out with The Hollies where Norma used to volunteer there for 49 years she told us. So we made her wish come true we went off to the Hollies and had lunch.

The Hollies is a day Centre in Musselburgh High Street. Norma told us she used to get the bus to Dalkeith from Mayfield where she stayed then from Dalkeith to Musselburgh every day. Norma was so happy that we made her wish come true.

Once again myself Diane has decided to help a local girl Sophie Walker that has been fighting cancer for many years. So I contacted her mum & aunty that was a member of staff here in the past. So I came up with an idea another sponsor silence so I asked our resident Jean & staff member Graham if they would like to join in. So on the 13th March it all happened. The 3 of us were quite for 1 hour.

It was very hard for us 3 as everyone knows how chatty we all are and lots of our collages were trying to get us to chat but we all stayed strong and done an excellent job. So all donations will be going towards her treatment.

As part of our International Women’s Day celebrations, Residents from across our services were thrilled to join tour guide, Mandy Morrow, for an exciting talk about some Legendary London Ladies.

Mandy shared the fascinating stories of eight ladies with us, from the one of the richest heiresses in the world to the original 'Roaring Girl'.

Everyone who participated truly enjoyed the experience and were delighted to take a walk down memory lane.