Activities at Pentland View Care Home

Pentland View prepared a traditional Burns Night Supper to the tune of bagpipe tunes and the fun continued well into the night.

Staff and residents at the home were involved in a number of activities, including arranging displays of “red red roses,” a Burns Night themed quiz, and a wonderful display from some of the dancers from Tanya Horne’s School of Highland Dance to mark the Scottish institution. Willie Bain gave the time-honoured address to the ‘Great chieftain O’ the pudding race’ – the haggis, having great fun showing off his haggis stabbing skills!
 

Isabella T, Marion, Sandra, and Willie B recently enjoyed a visit to Thurso’s Community Café for a cuppa and some cakes. 

The café runs purely off of donations and volunteers and is a place that anyone can go to find a welcome and a great cuppa and tasty food. 

After sampling the coffee, tea, and cakes, we all agreed that we needed to visit again and try lunch next time! They all said that the café was lovely, the people were friendly (we always run into familiar faces when out and about!), and the size of the cups of tea and coffee were huge! 

While there, the café was also visited by Jarvis the lovely cocker spaniel, and a therapet. The residents enjoyed giving him a treat and a pat.

We have been very lucky lately with donations of flowers from the local community. 

The residents always enjoy flowers in their rooms, and we received potted plants as well as bouquets! 

As you can imagine, the rooms and corridors of the home have been cheered up greatly by all of these flowers. Seen here, the ladies separate some of the bouquets to make arrangements of their own.

Babs and Nancy recently enjoyed a trip to Wick for shopping and lunch in Tesco’s café. 

The ladies had a good laugh on the bus on the way there, and greatly enjoyed their lunch in the café! After lunch, we walked around and the ladies had an opportunity to shop for anything that they would like. 

It was lovely to get out on a sunny day and enjoy each other’s company while having a good browse, especially through the sales racks!

Residents, staff and guests were recently invited to don their festive finest and walk the catwalk. 

We even had furry entrants, in the form of Murphy and Ollie wearing their Christmas jumpers! 

Everyone had a right giggle and a great time and then enjoyed a Bailey’s hot chocolate after.

Recently, we have forged a connection with Pennyland Primary School. 

We had the p4 and 4/5 class, as well as the p6 class in to carol for us, and the residents were all delighted!

The children all were brilliant and sure brought plenty of Christmas cheer and excitement. To further the Christmas merriment, Reena and Gwen also took a trip to the school’s carol service St. Peter’s and St Andrew’s Church. 

Both ladies absolutely loved the service and sang along to every song. They were even greeted by the students and teachers, who recognised them from their visits!