Activities at Mount Vale Care Home

Mount Vale hosted a Health & Safety Awareness afternoon for students at Northallerton School & Sixth Form College who are studying Health & Social care. Mount Vale host yearly awareness afternoons to enlighten the students about the dangers you might find within a care home. Deputy Manager, Joanne Stokes, altered a bedroom to show all the different hazards staff always have to look out for, from doors being left open on cupboards, to wet floors and items on the floor. 

Students from the college walked around the home on the lookout for other potential hazards before walking into the bedroom full of them. Some students were shocked at the amount of potential hazards and didn’t realise that some of those things could be a danger to an elderly person. 

A student from Northallerton School & Sixth Form College said, “It was great to look around and see all the items that could be a hazard. I definitely learnt more. Thank you for this great opportunity.” 

Today, we held a meet and great with our local police community support workers. Dougie joined us to give us a talk about all sorts of topics and spent time answering questions about the Herbert protocol, scams, and speeding. Giving us all the new up to date information that we didn't know and we found it very interesting. 

We even did some reminiscing about how policing used to be.  There are leaflets available at Mount Vale to help support anyone with what we discussed.  Thank you so much for coming and joining us. 

Staff and residents at Mount Vale care home in Northallerton have been kindly donated a variety of painted rocks from Monk Park Farm for their sensory garden.

Monk Park Farm, in Thirsk have been attempting to break the Guinness world record by creating the world’s longest caterpillar with painted stones. The stones which were decorated by local families and children have beautiful, bright, colourful designs painted on rocks of all different shapes and sizes. Unfortunately, even with all their hard work, they were just shy of the record meaning they wanted to put them to good use.

The General Manager of the home, Trudi Gillespie said “What a kind donations of these amazing rocks, they are so spectacular and are a great addition into our sensory garden.”

A big thank you to the Cornish Seal Sanctuary for the fantastic live virtual event today!

Residents across our services loved seeing the seals up close and learning about the incredible work the sanctuary does to protect them and other wildlife in Cornwall as well.

Everyone truly enjoyed the experience. 

In honour of National Emergency Services Day this happening this month our staff and residents thought it would be a good idea to give back to our local ambulance crews.  Who work very hard and are a very supportive towards our lovely home.  This morning we visited Northallerton Ambulance Station to hand out homemade cakes, crisps and goodie bags with homemade items added into it, to our local paramedics and ambulance staff as a thank you for the wonderful work they do to support our community. 

Staff all dressed up on their pyjamas. Residents loved seeing everyone been individual and standing out from the crowd. 

They were delighted to see the different colours, patterns, and spending time talking about the fabrics and how things have changed over the years.

Even at the age of 94, our oldest resident Reg is surrounded by his wife Julie and staff. Julie maintains that Reg is still a 'babe magnet'