Activities at Boroughbridge Manor Care Home

This month we headed out on our minibus to Yolk Farm Kitchen, where we were given the amazing opportunity to bottle feed some baby lambs! The lambs were hungry and ready for a feed and each resident had the opportunity to bottle feed at least one lamb as they jumped around the pen! The lambs won all our hearts over and we were able to give them all a cuddle too! This activity brought back memories for some and created new experiences for others, but was enjoyed equally by everyone!

We welcomed Rochelle Ayris Entertainment into our home to help us celebrate what would have been Doris Days’ birthday, with a fantastic performance of some of her well-loved hits! Doris was a well-known American actress, singer and animal welfare activist. The home was filled with sounds of her most popular hits as we sang along to all of our favourites! We had a brilliant morning together and as always loved watching Rochelle perform! Musical entertainment always encourages residents and staff to join us on the dancefloor, providing a morning of light exercise and good fun!

In the run up to Easter we were lucky to be joined by both Rev Karen Gardiner and Rev Ian Pruden who provided us with a wonderful Easter service. Many of our residents gathered in the dining room downstairs as we sang some of our favourite hymns and learnt of the story of Easter. Residents and families really enjoyed this service and its always lovely to welcome our visitors, families and friends to join in all of our services.

Students from Roecliffe CE Primary School kindly visited and set up an Easter egg hunt in our garden for the residents to enjoy. With some clues and direction from the children, residents worked with them in small groups to locate as many chocolate eggs as we could, hidden in the grounds! What fun this was! We then spent time inside chatting together about our Easter traditions and exchanged handmade cards and Easter treats! We also had the wonderful team and children from Happy Jays Nursery - Boroughbridge visit. We decided it would be great fun to set up an Easter Egg hunt in the garden, for us all to enjoy with the smaller children as the weather stayed fine. The residents get so much joy from seeing young children having fun together and enjoy their company greatly. One of our residents and her daughter also crocheted some Easter egg cosies in the run up to Easter, to donate to all of our residents, which were very gratefully received by everyone!

Boroughbridge Manor was full of animal mischief when a group of Guinea pigs came to visit the home. Residents at Boroughbridge Manor were pleasantly surprised to see their new furry friends roaming around their home as guinea pigs from Sycamore Nook Therapet’s paid a visit.

Activity coordinator Leoni Senior said: “Our residents have really enjoyed their unusual visitors today. We knew that having the guinea pigs here would be a bit of fun for all our residents, especially as some find it difficult to go on many outings in our minibus.  We are always looking for new activities for the residents and today we have seen the seen the enjoyment and the therapeutic influence animals can have on people.”

Residents across our homes and hospitals had a fantastic time with vocal coach Dan Cooper from Biiah as he led an amazing sing-a-long session for residents to enjoy. Residents who joined the event were able to learn different techniques as they sang the famous ‘I Can See Clearly Now’ by Jimmy Cliff and ‘Here Comes the Sun’ by The Beatles. Across our homes there were smiles and laugher all around. The session was such a success and was great for the mind, body and soul.