Activities at Drummond Grange Care Home

After all the fun of the Nessie hunt and our Scottish-themed adventure at the home last month, residents embarked on a magical journey to celebrate the upcoming lunar new year with the wonderful Boogie Beat intergenerational class. Our residents got to enjoy making fireworks with ribbons and scaring off monsters with the children. 

Residents always have a lot of fun and enjoyment when Boogie Beat come to visit and look forward to their return. 

Today, residents of Drummond Grange had some very special visitors from Zoo Lab visit. 

Residents got to touch and feel a variety of exciting animals from gentle giant snails, fascinating dancing stick insects and furry tarantulas to friendly gerbils, colourful tree frogs and a very calm (and curious!) bearded dragon there was something for everyone to enjoy!   

Movement to Music is an important part of our weekly planner at Drummond Grange. This is a movement-based class run by our physio team promoting exercise through dance and fun. These classes are adapted for all our residents, and they request their favourite songs to sing and dance along to. 

Movement to Music forms part of our Wellbeing Wednesday’s, and it’s great for our physical and mental wellbeing. Resident Stacey said, “I love Wednesday’s movement to music class. It is my favourite activity of the week; I love that we can suggest the music we like to listen to”.         

We started our Christmas Festivities with our annual Christmas Market. The residents came along and shopped at our local craft makers stalls, enjoyed the dancing on show and were treated to a lovely performance of bagpipes. They tucked into some delicious food. Families, friends and the local community loved the Christmas spirit that was spreading through the home. 

Resident Rose Archibald said “I was absolutely delighted to see the markets being such a great success!! I went to the markets feeling down and unwell and as soon as I came down, I saw the dance group perform and I felt my spirits lifting immediately!! They were amazing and I hope the come back to visit” 

We took advantage of the recent sunny and warm weather to take a trip to Dalkeith Country Park for a stroll.

Our ladies who joined us enjoyed an ice-cream whilst watching the farm animals and enjoyed reminiscing about trips with their own families.

We were honoured to be involved in the Fringe Care Fest’s “Life Goes On” film. Our residents were so excited to see the short film that featured several of our own wonderful residents. At the home, residents were tucking into homemade canapés prepared by our amazing chef and walking the Drummond Grange red carpet before watching the film. 

At the same time some of the staff and residents including our home’s resident ambassador Sussanne and Rhoda got to attend the premiere of the film held at the Scotsman Hotel. All of our residents thoroughly enjoyed themselves and are even more excited for the Fringe Care Fest coming back to the home this year.  

Feel Good Friday does exactly what it says on the tin – happens every Friday and makes everyone in the home feel good! Residents all gather in our communal lounges and partake in some karaoke, dancing and drinks are served. 

Residents always look forward to ending the week and beginning the weekend in this way. We do enjoy having a theme for Feel Good Friday, so look out for upcoming events.          

To celebrate the end of 2025 and welcome in the New Year we had a Silent Disco. Residents put on their headphones and had a choice of music to listen to, this was great fun as each resident could listen to their favourite style of music while enjoying the company of everyone. 

They enjoyed some New Year tipples and buffet while dancing the day away with friends, families and staff. Residents told staff they had the best time and would love to do this again in the New Year! 

A Care Practioner has received a prestigious 10 Year Service Award in celebration of working at Barchester Healthcare for 10 years.

Rodica Teusan, now Care Practioner, started at Barchester in October 2015 and has worked with residents and their relatives to ensure that their needs have been met over the years.  ”

Alina Brehar, General Manager said: “We’re delighted to be celebrating 10 years of loyal service with Rodica Teusan. She has demonstrated her dedication and loyalty to this home and its residents year after year. I speak for all of us here at Drummond Grange when I say that I’m looking forward to many more years of working with Rodica Teusan!”
 

We had an amazing time dancing with our boogie beats class! The residents always enjoy seeing these little bundles of joy and this is a popular group activity.  

We have so much fun with our intergenerational friends and always look forward to them visiting.

There were pancakes for everyone on Shrove Tuesday at our Pancake Station! 

The favourite topping combination was strawberry sauce and fresh strawberries, perfect for the rare glimpse of sunshine. Residents told us that the pancakes were “fabulous like me” and that the set-up was “simply brilliant” and they are looking forward to doing it again next year!     

Calum from Cool Creatures brings our favourite visitors to Drummond Grange. We love the variety of creatures he brings, from Tiger the rabbit to Domino the skunk. Calum takes time to chat to the residents and has built up a report with them over his time visiting, he is always making them laugh. 

Residents always ask when we are making our next visit as they want to make sure they are available to come along and mark the date in their diary.         

Resident Ambassador Susanne Watson set to work on writing her Christmas Pantomime for 2025 “Santa and the 12 Toys of Christmas”. 

The all-star cast list included staff and residents keen to put on an Oscar worthy performance which they certainly did. The panto was packed with jokes and definitely filled the room with laughter. 

And just like that POM III is finished and was another amazing success!! Everyone had so much fun together - no amount of rain is stopping us at Drummond.

Big thank you to everyone who came and joined in the fun with us and more importantly massive thank you to those who helped!!! We couldn’t have pulled this off without the great community spirit needed to set this up.

To the bands who performed you were all great and the residents loved you and loved dancing and singing along with you!!! We hope to see you next year!!
 

Yesterday we had some very special visitors — alpacas!   Our residents were all smiles meeting these gentle, fluffy friends. There were plenty of cuddles, laughter, and even a few alpaca selfies! 

It’s moments like these that bring so much joy to our home. A huge thank you to BobCat Alpacas and everyone who helped make this magical visit happen!