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.
Louise Chapman
Hi my name is Louise I have been working at Mount Vale since 2010. I am the activities co-ordinator, I am here to promote the wellbeing of our residents and ensure they have a variety of activities to get involved in. I love finding new creative ways to engage our residents and involve our local community.
I am a dementia champion for the home and enjoy continuing to learn and find more things I can do to help promote the wellbeing of our residents.
I love spending time with each individual getting to know them so I can add individual needs into our plans. I love building strong relationships with our residents and families.
I am a crafty person and can be found doing diamond arts and lots of other creative things when I am not at work. I love spending time with my family and going for walks with my dog Dottie and cuddling my cat Loki.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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
Blooming Haus
We were delighted to join Blooming Haus’s Christmas Wreath Making Masterclass, where Master Florist, Michal and his business partner - Michael showed us the best method to create beautiful festive wreaths.
Following the tips and ideas learnt during the amazing virtual experience, we were happy to put our skills to a test and to enter the #BarchesterChristmasWreaths competition.
We all had a wonderful time creating our festive wreath/s.
Thank you @bloominghaus for helping our residents flow into the true spirit of Noel.
Residents mark Remembrance Day with English Ballet
We celebrated Remembrance Day with English National Ballet Associate Dance Artist, Richard Bermange, who led a creative dance workshop for our residents followed by a short clip of Akram Khan’s work Dust, premiered in 2014 as part of ENB’s Lest We Forget programme, commemorating the First World War.
An ENB Company Dancer, recalled their account of performing in the piece and provided context to the themes. To bring this element to a close, some of the specific hand movements from the duet were demonstrated by Jennie Harrington - Artistic Coordinator.
Our residents had a wonderful time as they listened, danced and were able to singalong to famous war time music performed by ENB Associate Musician, Matt Hartley-Stevens.
The session incorporated the national two minute’s silence at 11am to mark the exact time the guns fell silent at the end of the First World War in 1918.
Bonfire celebrations at Mount Vale
Residents and Staff at Mount Vale had a fabulous evening celebrating Bonfire night.
They feasted on soup, hot dog’s, jacket potatoes and chilli, and finished with sour cherry brownies and an amazing bonfire cake.
Our display was fantastic and everyone had a great night.
A visit from Aquatic Finatic
Residents and staff enjoyed another visit from Jack at Aquatic Finatic this week.
What an amazing day we have had here once again at Mount vale.
Jack brought in a selection of exotic animals and reptiles that our Residents and staff were able to meet and hold. Jack is very knowledgeable about all the the animals he brings, our Residents found it very interesting and informative.
Aquatic Finatic visits Mount Vale once a month running alongside our in house activities schedule and our residents and staff always have a great time!
Spooktacular times at Mount Vale
Here at Mount Vale we got into the spooky Halloween spirit of things and hosted a fun-filled party this weekend with delicious Halloween inspired treats, mocktails and themed music.
Some of our residents preferred to paint and decorate pumpkins and to dress up for the occasion, others got involved in themed quizzes and games, and enjoyed watching Halloween films.
We all had a spooktacular time.
Halloween Spirit at Mount Vale
We had a lovely surprise visit from Bambi this week who came to the home in a little pumpkin outfit and it's safe to say she made everyone smile!
Bambi belongs to our Activities Coordinator, Rebecca and comes to work several times a week with her and has been doing so for the past 4 years. She is part of the furniture at Mount vale.
We also had a visit from another furry friend called Jasmine who belongs to one of our carers, Denise; but we're not sure how happy Bambi was about this.
Halloween spirit is all around at Mount Vale and we can't wait for our Party this weekend!
Upcoming events
Professionals Lunch
Join us for a light lunch and network with other local professionals.
Countdown to Christmas
Counting down the days to Christmas with a fun filled month ahead and we extend a warm invitation for you to join us - all welcome.
Merry Christmas!
Could you be a Volunteer?
Do you have any spare time and could make a difference? If you are interested in Volunteering we'd love to hear from you.
Community Cafe
We extend a warm invitation for you to join us at our popular community cafe -
Emergency Services - Take a break on us!
Calling all emergency personnel - come and take a break with us! There may be a cake or two available .....
