Activities at Scarborough Hall Care Home

Today we have had a great time celebrating, Oomph Demands Circus Day. This Morning we spent time going through the world famous circuses and watching them on YouTube while Becky read the oomph demand factsheet to us. In the Choirchester we sang the greatest showman songs as well as some of our favorites.

To ended the day we watched moulin rouge and the greatest showman in 2 of the lounges.

Here at Scarborough Hall we had a fantastic Christmas Day, which involved themed movies, singing and dancing, family visits followed by a beautiful festive lunch with turkey, roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, puddings and cakes.

In the morning we welcomed Mrs Clause from the North Pole, who brought gifts to all our residents - everyone was busy opening their presents and enjoying a glass of bubbly before the festive feast, prepared by our talented chef and kitchen team.

After lunch, we tuned in to watch and listen to the King's speech. Our day was filled with joy, smiles, music and laughter.

Heavenly voices rang out at Scarborough Hall as team members and members of our local St James Church came together to celebrate Christmas with a very special tailored carol concert for our residents who are unable to make it out to church.  

The residents were delighted to hear a knock at the bedroom door to be greeted by a personalised rendition of the most wonderful traditional carol songs which was reminiscent of years gone by, just like experiencing carol singers when they lived in their own home. 

There was mulled wine, hot chocolate, roasted chestnuts and toasted marshmallows along with lots of other Christmas treats all prepared by head chef, Paul to get everyone feeling festive.

Staff and residents at Barchester’s Scarborough Hall care home in Scarborough love any excuse to get creative so when they found out it was Gingerbread House Day on December 12, they didn’t need any persuading to get cracking!

The staff and residents asked head chef Paul to whip up a big batch of gingerbread for them and then got busy decorating with icing, buttercream, marshmallows, dolly mixture, candy canes and edible glitter to make some of the glitziest gingerbread houses in town.

General Manager, Charlotte Nurse, said: “We were all so excited when we found out there was a Gingerbread House Day, what a fantastic excuse to spend the day making gorgeous festive decorations.  The best thing about it is that, now that we have judged which gingerbread house we like best, we get to eat them all – delicious!”

Barchester’s Scarborough Hall care home has teamed up with the local shops along Falsgrave to run a find Santa’s little helper’s competition. The competition is running until 30th December, we would like to invite children in our local community to join in to be in with the chance of winning a prize. You will need to collect an entry form from reception at the home and then find all 9 reindeers and 7 elves in the shop windows and then return the completed forms to us, the winners will be drawn shortly after the closing date.

General Manager, Charlotte Nurse said: “Christmas really is the most wonderful time of the year and our fantastic residents love to get festive so we’ve pulled out all the stops.  It is so lovely to be able to involve children in our local community.”

Barchester’s Scarborough Hall care home, in Scarborough, got in the Christmas spirit by hosting their annual Christmas Parties for each community with in the home. The activity team hosted each party and provided a selection of Christmas treats and tipples including Baileys, Mulled Wine and Snowballs.

Laughton Suite’s Christmas party entertainment was provided for us by our resident musician Matt at Rewind who kicked off our Christmas festivities quite fabulously, providing an uplifting and fun filled afternoon for all. We would like to thank Matt for his hard work and loyalty over the years and look forward to working with him in the New Year.