Activities at Four Hills Care Home

Getting out and about in our community, going to our favourite places is big on our list of priorities here at Four Hills.

We have our wishing tree, where residents can leave comments on places they would like to go. Stuart and Barbara both wanted to go to The Kelvingrove Art Galleries. This is a very special place for Barbara as she used to work very close to here and would go here most days after finishing work and spend a few hours looking over the artwork. After going for so long, Barbara had built up a lovely relationship with the staff, so along with going to see the artwork, Barbara wanted to chat to some of the staff as she was concerned they would be worried about where she had gone. Stuart is new to the Glasgow area, having lived in Manchester most of his life, so he had never been here before but had heard lots of good things about it.

On the day itself, Barbara had a lovely time catching up with the staff in the coffee shop, who even remembered her usual order and Stuart was very impressed by all the taxidermy on display. He has a great love of animals and was able to share some of his knowledge with us. Both of them couldn’t wait to visit again.

To celebrate Chinese new year, Four Hills hosted a variety of themed events around China. We enjoyed some crafting as we made paper lanterns, residents listened to traditional music, and we did virtual tours of Beijing markets and watched all the wonderful, colourful light displays.

The celebrations were rounded off with a lovely traditional Chinese meal provided by our kitchen team. The residents commented it was great to learn about different cultures as Betty said, ‘we are never too old to learn!'

Residents at Four Hills had a wonderful Valentine’s week with many themed activities around love. Firstly, we started with an arts & crafts session, making cards for our loved ones, then we had a reminiscing session talking about how we would have spent the day when we were younger and residents shared with us some of the traditional poems they would write. We had some great laughs with that one.

Then it was on to the day itself where we invited our family members to join us for afternoon tea. It was great to see the residents celebrate their love together. Then, to round off the celebrations, we had some live entertainment from singer, Angela, who treated us to some of our favourite love songs as residents sang and danced along. 

Margaret commented on how lovely it was to spend the special day with her husband.

New Year's celebrations continued into New Year’s Day when we welcomed David – a piper, into our home to play some familiar traditional Scottish songs whilst we danced and sang-a-long too!

We even raised a glass of wee dram to toast the new year, and we shared memories of time gone by. It was a wonderful way to spend the day.

From everyone here at Four Hills, we wish you a very happy and healthy 2025.
 

What a wonderful afternoon trip out for the two Bettys to our local Dobbie’s Garden Centre, one of our favourite places to visit.

Our ladies loved seeing all the colourful and bright festive decorations and displays, and remarked on the vast selection and variety. Then it was off to their coffee shop for delicious tea and cakes before returning home.
 

Merry Christmas to all our residents, relatives, visitors and staff from Four Hills' very own Santa and his two helpers.

Santa stopped briefly for a photograph as he was on a tight schedule, making sure all the residents had received their Christmas gifts in time before enjoying their Christmas lunch.