Activities at Rothsay Grange Care Home
The activities coordinators at Rothsay Grange work 7 days a week to ensure there is a variety of planned group and one to one activities to suit all individual needs. The activities consist of weekly running activities such as chair zumba, Music therapy, an Arts club and many more. We also run a weekly minibus trip to local places of interest giving everyone a chance to have a trip out of the home.
Rothsay Grange also knows how to have a good old tea party alongside some fantastic entertainers and productions that visit the home on a regular basis. Irene and Aimee feel its very important to have the residents that live here to have a fun and fulfilled life and encourage them to attend as many activities as they wish.
Irene & Leah
Irene and Leah have been working together since 2019, and thoroughly enjoy planning and providing activities for our residents. They are a great team and always bring joy and fun to wherever they are in the home.
Leah has worked at Rothsay since she was 16, as an apprentice carer, and has worked her way into a position that she loves.
Irene has many years’ experience in working with vulnerable adults and children, and also started working here as a care assistant several years ago, before moving on to senior carer and then into the activities coordinator role.
Both love seeing the way that residents' lives are enriched with the activities they provide, and love interacting with all the residents in our care.
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 Rothsay Grange Care Home
Hydration and Nutrition Week
It has been Nutrition and Hydration week since the 17th March.
Our staff and residents have been treated to treat trolleys with lots of chocolates and cakes, a fruit trolley where the chef Raff made up a lovely platter of mixed fruit.
We all had a go at making our own smoothies, and we made cupcakes for all the residents. A very busy week had by all. June said she had a great time making the smoothies, and they all tasted so very nice.
Zoo Lab
Zoo Lab joined us on 11th March with an array of animals for us all to hold. The residents had a great afternoon seeing big and small animals up close.
One of our residents, Jean, said she was amazed at the size of the snake and I held it! We found out lots about each animal too! A great afternoon had by all. Thank you Zoo Lab.
Pancake Day!
The pupils of Mark Way school joined us today to mark pancake day!
Great fun was had by all. They all had a very nice lunch, followed by everyone topping pancakes made by our very own chef, Raff.
Everyone had a great time helping each other with all the different toppings.
Then, to end the afternoon, there was a fun quiz and facts, and you could not mark pancake day without flipping one, so they all had turns to see who could do the most.
Valentine's Day Celebrations!
The whole home was filled with flowers, cards and sweets in celebration of Valentine’s Day.
Staff and residents celebrated the day of love by listening to Gary Roman singing and enjoying some homemade heart-shaped red velvet cake prepared by head chef Raf.
In the morning, residents got to decorate cookies, getting them ready for the afternoon.
Puppet show
The puppets are back! In the afternoon, we had a puppet show presented by Carousel Theatre. The show was a cabaret style show starring some of the wonderful puppets made by the internationally acclaimed Puppeteers’ Company.
There were a few special Muppet guest stars. Jean said her favourite part of the show was the swan ballerina.
We are Live!
We would like to thank all the staff that helped in the transposing of our new system, EnabLE. We really appreciate your dedication. EnabLE is our high-quality, person-centred new digital care system. Care is at the heart of everything we do at Barchester, and everyone deserves the best care possible.
That’s why we want to make it easier and quicker for you to develop the best possible support plans and capture the delivery of high quality individual care and life enrichment to each unique individual we care for, at the point of care.
We would also like to say a massive thank you to Michelle Rees for joining us at our EnabLE celebration afternoon and providing an afternoon of songs which everyone said was fantastic.
