Activites at Rothsay Grange Care Home

Our residents had so much fun using their senses to take part in the “Guess That Smell” activity - a sensory challenge filled with laughter and curiosity from fresh herbs to fruity scents. 

Everyone was eager to test their noses and share memories linked to familiar aromas. Residents also explored their senses through contact with our new fidget items that have been kindly donated by a member of the public.   

We welcomed Zoolab to our home along with their selection of exotic animals, from placid giant land snails to deadly spiders. 

Residents enjoyed learning about these exotic animals and interacting with them along with the Zoolab staff members who hosted with intensive knowledge.    

What a privilege to be visited by Test Valley Borough Council’s Mayor and Mayoreses Maura and Ian Jeffrey.

Our residents truly enjoyed the conversations, questions, smiles, and stories that they brought.  

We celebrated VE day in our home with some fantastic entertainment from JuoJoy. They got the residents engaged and singing along to some sing-along classics. 

The residents enjoyed tea and cake, which were prepared by our in-house chefs. There were lots of smiles and laughter whilst enjoying this commemorative day.    

Here at Rothsay Grange we love to mark the milestones of our residents. Birthdays are important not only to the person but to family and friends. Rusty had his 99th birthday this month. As always we like to give a special meal for that one person on their birthday.

Here you can see our head chef Raff cooking up a storm in the kitchen getting Rusty’ s steak cooked the way he wanted. 

Both Jackie and Deana watched as he tucked into it. The afternoon was spent with family and friends over tea and cake.

The wellbeing of our residents are high on the list at Rothsay Grange, our manager, Roxana Davis, wanted to give something to her staff too, as our wellbeing is important too. So we all had a week of fun and laughter.

We have been dressing up, playing games and cuddling puppies! Roxana was only too please to was invite some beautiful puppies into the home for us all to fall in love with. One of our bank nurses dedicates her time by fostering dogs and puppies alongside the dogs trust.

These poor wee souls have had a rubbish start in life by loosening not only their mum but two sisters too!
We all loved seeing them and I will say we all wanted to take them home. The residents loved finding out about them even though it was sad they are living the high life now, with so much love.

We all had a great week of Easter fun, baking, dressing up, egg hunt with a twist, egg and spoon race to name a few.

Staff and residents had fun for Easter. Singer, Dave Dawson, gave us his best with our Easter show getting everyone up and dancing and singing. We had a bake off even the residents had a go, I think they enjoyed eating the goodies more than baking them.

The staff and residents wished everyone a happy Easter in different languages some their own tongue. It was fun watching them take part in trying to say the words everyone had ago.

It’s fun all the way at Rothsay Grange. Something is always happening. Please feel free to call in for a chat and a look around anytime.

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 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.