Activities at Mount Vale Care Home
Our specialist activities staff are committed to organising a mix of activities and events for residents and the local community to get involved in, including trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and visits from PAT dogs, entertainers and musicians. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Mount Vale Care Home
Christmas Bulbs Potting
One of our nurses here at Mount Vale has been busy with Residents potting up all of the Christmas bulbs.
It’s lovely to bring the outside in. We are looking forward to see them all bloom and brighten up the home.
A visit from our little friends!
We had our favourite little visitors from Rosedene nursery come and see us and present a Christmas Hamper for our Residents to enjoy.
They always make us smile, we look forward to seeing them much more in the New year.
Wizard of Oz Pantomime
Festivities are in full swing at Mount Vale with a “Wizard of Oz” pantomime performance from Cats Pyjamas Productions.
The show kept us all singing along and even a little scared when the Wicked witch of the west appeared. Everyone had a wonderful time and it really made it feel like Christmas.
Christmas Party Celebrations at Mount Vale
This week, Mount Vale were in full Christmas spirit with our Ground Floor Christmas party!
It was an enjoyable afternoon with lots of fabulous food hosted by our fantastic Chef and team, a Christmas quiz by our lovely Becky in Activities, and of course lots of Christmas carols to sing along to.
It most definitely is the most wonderful time of the year!
Gingerbread House Day
Staff and residents at Barchester’s Mount Vale care home in Northallerton love any excuse to get creative so when they found out it was Gingerbread House Day on December 12, they didn’t need any persuading to get cracking!
The staff and residents asked head chef, Danny to whip up a big batch of gingerbread for them and then got busy decorating! They had a fun filled afternoon and thoroughly enjoyed the gingerbread.
General Manager, Helen Lewis said: “We were all so excited when we found out there was a Gingerbread House Day, what a fantastic excuse to spend the day making gorgeous festive decorations. The best thing about it is that, now that we have judged which gingerbread house we like best, we get to eat them all – delicious!”
Magic of the Nutcracker
We experienced the magic of the Nutcracker with a special interactive workshop led by English National Ballet Associate Artists.
Our residents were able to take a magical journey thorough Edwardian London and to learn more about the enchanted Nutcracker characters: Clara, the Mouse King, and her valiant Nutcracker doll.
The session included a chair-based dance workshop, clips of the ballet on stage and a Christmas carol sing-along, truly enjoyed by all.
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