Mount House and Severn ViewBarchester Healthcare

Activities at Mount House and Severn View

Our Activities team is a dedicated group whom strive to ensure that the residents of Mount House have a broad range of meaningful activities daily which reflect the needs, wants and interests of all our residents. From our larger events including Garden Parties in our spectacular grounds to birthday celebrations with live musical entertainment we always have a broad range of events to suit all of our wonderful residents. We also go on a number of outings throughout the year in and around Shropshire, many of which are linked to community organisations whom cater specifically for interests of the people we support.

Something we have always been passionate about here at The Mount is Music therapy and we offer a diverse musical programme of live music and entertainers throughout the year to suit all tastes. Food theme days and tasting afternoons, as well as regular Cookery classes and chair yoga are on offer as well as beauty therapy and massage.
We aim to consistently provide a high quality activities programme for all of our residents and ensure that regardless of limitations and circumstances each individual has the best possible experience within our home, through both a physical and mentally stimulating person-centred approach.

Read our brochure ‘Life-enriching activities’ for more information about life in our care homes.

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Celebrating life at Mount House and Severn View

Duck hatching experience!

Well it was a lovely week at Mount House and Severn View with our duck hatching experience. Everyone has really enjoyed seeing them every day and watching them hatch and grow bigger, and gets lots of attention it has been a fantastic experience and thank you to incredible eggs for a very eggcellent week indeed.

But we have all said our goodbyes as Jemima, dinky and Hazel have now gone to their new home on a nice little farm with a very wonderful family and they will be bringing them back to see us soon and giving us weekly updates on how they are doing as they have really made a big impression on everyone here and it was a very hard goodbye, but we know they will enjoy their new home and meet new friends.

Garden Party

Mount House and Severn View held our first Downton Abbey Garden party, and it was croquet on the lawn with a wonderful selection of cream cakes and sandwiches made by our chefs Liz and Josh and it was very yummy. The staff were awesome and dressed in their flapper dresses and they all looked amazing.

Residents staff and families enjoyed listening to the extremely talented young gentlemen Bob play the saxophone and who is also one of our students that comes into visit our residents weekly, it really was wonderful music and everyone was blown away by it so thank you everyone very for making it a special afternoon.

Country and Western Day!

Mount House and Severn View decided they wanted to do a themed event so we asked our residents what they would like, and country and western and cowboys was the big favourite so we combined them all together, and had a really great time.

Our amazing chef Liz did a fantastic menu in keeping with the theme and everyone said it was lovely. We had a country music sing-a-long and got our dancing shoes on which is always great fun and not forgetting our Photo booth made an appearance.

The residents then picked a film Calamity Jane and enjoyed tea and cake and we ended the day with everyone's favourite a good old Quiz.

Spring Sunshine

The Mount House was enjoying the lovely sunshine and some of our residents couldn't wait to get outside and spend time in our gardens and relax in the much-needed sun that we have all been looking forward to.

We were also joined in the afternoon by students from Shrewsbury school who like to come along and visit our residents weekly and our residents always look forward to them coming to see us.

They even came along with their gardening gloves and garden tools and tied up our vegetable gardens ready for us to plant our new seeds in the gardening club, and we were all very grateful to the students for doing this for us. It was then time to all enjoy a well-earned rest with cream cakes and tea.

Clay Modelling

We have been enjoying using modelling clay and some of our residents really do have an artistic flare and have made some lovely creations that look amazing, and we look forward to when we paint them in the next couple of days and getting them on display for everyone to see.

Our residents love to do many different types of activities.

Afternoon Tea

We held our weekly vintage tea afternoon and, once again, our chef, Liz, made some lovely cakes for everyone, and there was definitely a spring feel to it all.

It was lovely to see family and friends come along to join us all, and we also welcomed the lovely Catherine from the local community, who has started to come along and spend time with our residents, which they really do enjoy and look forward to too.

St Patrick's Day!

We celebrated St. Patrick's Day in true style and everyone really had a great day.

Residents enjoyed a traditional Irish menu thanks to our wonderful Head chef Liz and, of course, an Irish tipple to follow.

We were then joined in the afternoon by the talented Wayne Hinton, who got everyone up singing and dancing, and we certainly had our dancing shoes on and had a great time.

It was so lovely to see family and friends coming along and joining in with the fun.

Exercise at Mount House!

We enjoyed an exercise class with the wonderful Sheila and, as always, everyone had a great time and enjoyed taking part, even the staff.

Exercise is very important to our residents here at the Mount House and Severn View and we really like getting together and singing along to the great music Sheila plays while doing our exercises.

Valentine's Afternoon Tea!

Mount House had vintage afternoon tea in Valentine's style.

Our chef, Carly, created delicious treats for our residents and their families and everyone had a great afternoon.