Activities at Ouse View Care Home

We had a lovely time joining V&A Dundee curator, Kirsty Hassard, as she introduced us virtually to the history and design of night clubs and the club culture from the 1960s to present day.

We explored the evolution and development of night clubs around the world, from Italy to America, and closer to home, looked at their importance as cultural venues and designed spaces.

This current exhibition celebrates night clubs at a very important moment, as we all look to a brighter future where everyone can come back together, to dance and to enjoy nights out once again.

We all enjoyed the virtual talk.

Yesterday afternoon staff and Residents at Barchester’s Ouse View care home in York were treated to a live performance from our lovely local singer Hannah Witcomb for the second time. All the classic hymns where ringing down the halls and seemingly everyone's favourite 'Edelweiss' was such a hit with some of our lovely new Residents.

Here at Ouse View Care Home in York hairdressers are finally allowed back into the home after the Lockdown.   Residents have been waiting patiently for months to get their hair cut and styled and so they were delighted to be able to book in for a long overdue cut and blow dry today with Christine. Pauline Hodgson, General Manager at Ouse View commented: “Our residents are just so delighted to be able to get a good cut and to feel fresh again, Tony looks like a new man!”

Ouse View revelled in all things sweet for World Chocolate Day with a range of chocolate treats. Residents enjoyed an exciting chocolate tasting session, of seven varieties of chocolates and flavours! In the afternoon, we tried a variety of chocolates including, Pure White, Dark Orange, Dark Mint, Hazelnut and some of our classic favourites KitKat, Milky Bars, After Eight and Buenos. The all-time favourite  was Dark Chocolate Mint.  

Celebrations have been in full swing at Ouse View as one of our residents reaches her 84th birthday in style yesterday! Pat, Ouse View resident and birthday girl, was smiling all day long as celebrations happened in the gardens in the afternoon with her family. Pat’s family said: 'We spent a lovely afternoon with mum on the sunny terrace of Ouse View overlooking the gardens. It was very special to be able to share in mum’s birthday in this relaxed environment, with the warm and caring team and other residents here.  Thank you for the delicious birthday cake which completed a super afternoon visit.'

We enjoyed a wonderful virtual introduction to the world of robots with V&A Dundee Curator, Kirsty Hassard.

Kirsty talked us through the history of robots and their early beginnings, the presentation traced the fascination of all things wired and wonderful and considered what the future might hold for our relationship with a multitude of mechanical machines.

It was absolutely thrilling to learn what robots can do now and what they might be able to do in the future.