Activities at Mount Vale Care Home

We celebrated Halloween with a spooktacular party turning our main dining room into a dance floor.  Residents and staff enjoyed some amazing music and a music trivia quiz with a Halloween theme of course.

Residents joined in with a variety of activities from decorating cakes, a fun filled 'pass the parcel' with lots of laughter over silly jokes! Trudi and Teresa wrapped up Shabu as a mummy, unfortunately they didn't manage to complete it within 3 minutes!  Better luck next year ladies.

A special thank you to the homes hospitality team for serving delicious cakes and spooktaclar drinks, it was a day to remember! 
 

Residents across our services had a lovely time joining Emily and Marie-Therese from the Wallace Collection, for a virtual introduction to Reubens' Rainbow Landscape.

Residents truly enjoyed the sensory walk through one of the museum’s most famous landscape paintings.

Everyone who joined had a wonderful experience and can’t wait to put their creative skills to the test by painting some landscapes of our their in the coming days!
 

We held our first quiz afternoon and welcomed a number of local community groups in joining us. We had a variety of different team including our local U3A quiz group and Residents and staff from Kirkley Lodge. 

Quiz Master, Louise read all the questions and spent time working the room checking on everyone as we tested our knowledge. 

After the quiz concluded,  everyone enjoyed wonderful refreshments including sticky toffee cake, and warm drinks especially prepared by the homes hospitality team.

Mount vale in Northallerton joined in with celebrating Wear It Pink Day during Breast Cancer Awareness Month along with hundreds of thousands of other people across the UK to raise money for charity. 

Wear It Pink is a Breast Cancer awareness campaign which has so far raised £31.5million for breast cancer since the campaign started in 2002. Schools, businesses and families get together to eat, wear and make something pink in order to raise money for breast cancer.

The residents of Mount Vale tucked into their favourite pink treats made by the home’s chef with help from friends, family, staff and residents! Everyone in the home, including the carers all added something pink to their outfits to celebrate the day. The staff and residents baked some amazing cakes to sell. They took part in wear it pink bingo, did a think pink quiz and spent the day doing a multitude of other pink crafts. 

Staff and residents at Mount Vale have spent time along with Lobby Lou’s Childcare Ltd walking and playing games around the home to get some training in for staff to take part in the Memory Walk in aid of Alzheimer’s Society.

Louise Chapman, Activities Co-Ordinator has been with the company for 16 years and has always had a passion to fund raise to help the residents. Louise has spent most of her career working with those who have Alzheimer’s or Dementia. It is where her heart lies being able to support those who need that extra help. When the opportunity arose to take part in this wonderful event, it seemed like a fantastic idea to raise money for the charity to help develop up and coming medical treatments for those with the diagnosis. 

Residents across our services had a fantastic time enjoying the virtual screening of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em. Frank Spencer’s comical misadventures had everyone laughing and it was wonderful to see so many happy faces. 

Thank you to everyone who joined us and a special thanks to The Barn Theatre in the Cotswolds for bringing this stage adaptation of the beloved sitcom to our screens.