Activities at Leeming Bar Grange Care Home

Here at Leeming Bar Grange we have regular reminiscence sessions; one topic that always encourages lots of discussion is ‘school days’; with residents speaking about their favourite teachers and how they impacted them. So of course on World Teacher’s Day residents chose to mark the occasion by expressing their gratitude to teachers; both past and present. Resident’s got creative making cards and gifts whilst reminiscing over their school experiences with resident Mavis commenting that even after 80 years she’s never forgotten the kindness of her math’s teacher.

Resident’s presented gifts to fellow residents who are former teachers; resident Ann who used to be a special needs teacher stated it was such a lovely surprise to be presented with the gifts. Resident’s also wished to thank our friends at Aiskew, Leeming Bar CE Primary School for all their fantastic work and created a box of goodies along with their homemade gifts. A big thank you to all teachers, past, present and future, as the residents gifts state ‘teaching is a work of heart’!

The residents and team at Leeming Bar Grange joined the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning this September in order to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support. The team baked an array of delicious baked goods; with Chef Janet’s rocky road selling out after just 10 minutes!

We had a day full of sweet treats with residents joining in a cake tasting quiz with lots of flavours being savoured such as; toffee, chocolate, coffee, cherry, mint, vanilla and lemon. All the fun managed to raise over £100 which will be passed on to Macmillan Cancer Support

Thank you so much to all the residents and team at Leeming Bar Grange who made the day the sweetest of successes!

The resident’s and team joined the country in walking for a world without dementia this September. The residents and team worked together to complete 100 laps of our beautiful garden! Everyone was very supportive and worked to encourage each other throughout the challenge; creating decorations and cheering each other on!

Those who are living with dementia walked with fellow residents and the team in solidarity to support the charity. We are proud to report that we have raised an amazing £215.50 to be donated to Alzheimer’s Society

A huge thank you to the home’s fantastic community in helping us to raise money for this great cause!

Leeming Bar Grange is part of an amazing community and the residents and team wished to use our monthly baking competition to support our community. We asked the team for donations of pet food in exchange for a slice of cake; in order to support Blue Cross Thirsk. The team got creative in making animal themed cakes, from a chocolate hedgehog to an elephant in a hot tub.

Our lovely residents kindly judged the cakes based on taste and appearance. Resident Connie commented with a huge smile “ I can’t believe how clever everyone is; they all look and taste amazing”. The winner of the coveted homemade star baker award was Katie with her amazing teddy bear cake. Needless to say everyone wanted a slice of the action and the home collected a huge amount of pet food to pass on to Blue Cross Thirsk

We might not be able to fly all our lovely residents to Paris; but we can bring Paris to the residents. And that’s exactly what we did! Residents spent time sitting by the “Eiffle Tower”, whilst listening to French tunes and sampling some French delicacies such as brie, French goats cheese, camembert and French cured meats on baguettes. Along with madeleines, brioche, and nougat; of course not forgetting the wine too!

The resident’s had a lovely time reminiscing about their visits to Paris, sharing these memories with those who have yet to visit. Activity Co-ordinator Kim is passionate that “nothing should get in the way of residents living their life to the full; it’s a joy to support residents to engage in new life experiences and to transport residents back in time to old memories.

A beautiful moment was had when one resident spoke of a romantic meal at a traditional Parisian restaurant with her late husband; speaking with such warmth with a huge smile on her face!”

Residents enjoyed an afternoon filled with summer treats as they celebrated what’s left of the British summer.  Resident’s merrily sang along to ‘cockles and mussels’ whilst enjoying the real thing, and of course it wouldn’t have been a seaside day without some candy floss and rock.

Conversation flowed with memories of summer holidays to the coast; with resident Betty smiling brightly as she reminisced about the wonderful holidays in Scarborough with her father and family.