Activities at Corrina Lodge Care Home

Residents thoroughly enjoyed the warmth of the sun in our lovely garden at this morning’s Well-being Session. We all felt it was exactly the right time to venture into the garden and make the most of the wonderful weather.

Residents are invited to attend a weekly session, where we do guided relaxation together. Most recently, we took a woodland walk and talked about ways to improve and maintain our general physical and mental health.

Residents are encouraged to share their ideas and knowledge at the classes, and one of our lovely admin team has kindly offered to share some of the exercises and  benefits of pilates at one of our future sessions, which we are all looking forward to.

One of our wonderful residents at Corrina Lodge recently enjoyed a visit from a miniature donkey and her foal. The pair made their way upstairs in our lift and appeared very comfortable with the situation.

The donkeys are part of an amazing charity called  Animal Touch, which is linked with Millers Ark Animals, and give people who may not otherwise have the opportunity a chance to spend time with some of their lovely animals. Once the donkeys had visited the special lady in question, they went on to say hello to a few more of the Corrina Community.

Mrs Margaret Gibson celebrated her 100th Birthday this month. She was joined by her lovely family for this very special milestone. Margaret thoroughly enjoyed being serenaded by entertainer Richard Radcliffe with her family, fellow residents and staff surrounding her. She proudly held her beautifully newly framed telegram from the Queen.

The activities team at Corrina Lodge have also recently joined a group called Postcards of Kindness. We were able to add Corrina Lodges address to this fantastic group, where people are able to choose to write and send postcards to your residents collectively at your care home. So far with have had some wonderful cards from all over the country. We  have now formed our very own Pen Pal group and will be replying to some of these wonderful people. There are also opportunities to write to other care home communities, which is great!

One of the other really good bonuses of this group is ‘The 100 Club’, which is for people celebrating this special milestone. We were given permission to add the lovely Margaret’s name and she received over 30 amazing cards. Margaret was absolutely thrilled and said ‘all these are for me?’.

Margaret certainly celebrated in style!

Corrina Lodge enjoyed a special Valentine's Day, with everybody enjoying an Italian meal cooked by our wonderful chef. The café was transformed into a charming Italian bistro and some of our lovely Corrina couples were invited to enjoy a romantic lunch. They all said they had a thoroughly enjoyable time and there was definitely amore in the air.

Corrina Lodge have had some exciting news regarding one of our long standing members of staff, Mrs Michelle Llaguno.

Although Michelle was a registered nurse in her home country of the Philippines, she has had to pass a number of exams here in England to validate her nursing pin.

Michelle has now achieved this and passed all her exams with flying colours. We are lucky to have such an amazing team here at Corrina who all enjoyed congratulating Michelle on her success and brilliant achievemen. Michelle has said she is thoroughly looking forward to her new role and continuing on her journey.

Residents here at Corrina really enjoyed Ageless Golf, which is just one  of our staying active sessions throughout the month. It is very well-attended and there is always a competitive air in the room. As well as competing against each other, we are also part of a league. We came second in the league in January, and we are in the process of purchasing a trophy cabinet to display all our winning trophies. Go Corrina!