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.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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
Remembrance Weekend
At Rothsay Grange, we always like to spend time being creative with residents. As it was coming up to remembrance weekend, we decided to get residents involved in making their own poppy art, including button art and felt poppy making, which was great fun.
On Armistice day and Remembrance Sunday, residents, staff and family members gathered to remember all those that fought and died in battle. Whilst sitting and watching the remembrance service on televison, there was some chat of war time between residents who were remembering their own experiences. We also had a memorial board, where everyone that wanted to could write a tribute on a poppy and place it on the board.
Halloween Tea Party
Here at Rothsay grange we had a spookatular tea party for Halloween with staff and residents dressing up for the occasion. We had entertainment from Cosmic Sparkle, who got the residents in the mood with lots of dancing and singing. We had some faboulous creepy cakes and spooky tea for all residents to enjoy that were made by our on-site chef. The afternoon was well-received by all who attended.
Halloween
With the run up to Halloween, we got in the mood with some spooky art and pumpkin carving. Residents painted different Halloween figures for the art boards and got messy carving the pumpkins. We worked together to design different faces for the pumpkins; some wanted to make them scary, where as others didn’t.
Gardening Club
After an earlier trip in the week, residents joined the gardening club to plant their haunted heathers ready for Halloween. Once all the coloured heathers were planted in their pots, they were placed in the courtyard garden near residents' rooms so they could see them from their bedroom windows.
Trip to the Garden Centre
One of our weekly trips was to the local garden centre where the residents brought some coloured heather for another activity taking place during the week. The residents liked looking at all the different plants, garden ornaments and stopping for a quick cuppa.
1940s Tea Party
On Monday 24th October, we had a afternoon 1940s tea party with entertainment from local singer, Beth Houghs. She sang lots of wartime songs that were well-known to staff and residents where they could all get in the mood by singing along to them. The area where the event took place was decorated in 1940s-style, with inflatable spitfires and Churchill bunting, old posters and memorabilia. All the residents wore army hats that were similar to the 1940s era. Everyone enjoyed beautiful cakes made by our onsite chef - and the tea was definitely flowing throughout the afternoon.
