Activities at Plas-Y-Dderwen Care Home

Our residents love to show that they are always up for a new challenge, and pottery was the challenge for September. After an afternoon of feeling and interacting with the wonderful textures of clay, we set to making our very own tiles, and these are the designs the residents here at Plas-Y-Dderwen came up with.

1st Royal Irish joined Plas-Y-Dderwen to facilitate training for COVID-19 testing stations, and we leant our care park to help. If, in light of the current situation, we can help out in any way for our community we will.  

The 1st Royal spent the day at our home training around 20 individuals on how to erect a testing station and provide tests. By the end of the day, all whom attended could successfully arrange a testing station. The 1st Royal Irish will continue to utilise the car park spaces for more training in the future.

We want to thank everyone for their contribution and look forward to working together with our community more and supporting the NHS where possible. We are currently still taking admissions into our care home for those that need care in the next 4 weeks, so please do give us a call.

This idea began as a project that involved residents and staff alike coming together to create a beach-themed patio: a beach away from the beach that would give our residents a feeling of the familiar whilst also also offering them a quiet place to relax.

We opened the beach to the residents, and the response we had was phenomenal. Ice cream, fish and chips and a beach party that covered the whole home were just a few of the activities the residents and staff here at Plas-Y-Dderwen enjoyed.

We cannot go to the pub, so we thought we would try our hands at making our own cocktails. From a Tom Collins to a Sex on the Beach, the residents loved being able to suggest different flavours and cocktail ideas.

We mixed together melon, strawberry, vodka, and lime for what we like to call the 'Plas-Y-Dderwen Twilight'. New ideas are already being suggested for next month as our residents are loving the idea of trying cocktails or mocktails that they have designed themselves.

The Ascot Summer Race meeting officially became a royal week in 1911. The Queen is owner and breeder of many thoroughbred horses and shares her interest in horses with many members of her family.

As we couldn’t attend this year, we held meetings at Plas-Y-Dderwen by watching classic, long-forgotten Ascot races. We had winners and losers, but all had a lovely day eating strawberry’s and chocolates and, of course, we wore some of our favourite hats.

Who doesn't love a good book? As it turns out almost everyone as Plas Y Dderwen loves a good book and this could be seen by the amazing turn out as we celebrated world book day.

Staff, residents and family alike joined us as we dressed up as our favourite storybook characters, whether you were looking for a Wizard of Oz character or maybe someone from Alice in Wonderland, storybook characters were coming around every corner.

The highlight of the day however had to be travelling down to our local school 'Johnstown primary' and visiting with the school children in all their costumes.

The children looked amazing and the residents loved seeing them all and trying to guess their costumes. A special thanks has to be said to the mayor who happened to be at the school at the time and took the chance to talk to some of our residents and staff.  

This activity took place before the lockdown.