Activities at Scarborough Hall Care Home

Whether you’re a die-hard Digestive fan, a Ginger Nut, or go crazy for a Custard Cream, National Biscuit Day, celebrated on May 29th, is the perfect day for you. And it was certainly a day of fun-filled biscuit dunking for the staff and residents at Scarborough Hall.

To mark the celebration of the nation’s favourite biscuits, residents tucked into a variety of different options, which of course, were paired with a good old cup of tea.  There was much fun to be had taking part in baking and decorating biscuits, biscuit themed quizzes and chats about all things biscuits followed by our biscuit tasting trolley.

Staff and residents joined fellow keen dabbers from over 250 Barchester care homes and hospitals across the whole of the UK, including Wales, Scotland, Jersey and the Isle of Wight, to compete in one of the biggest games of bingo Barchester has ever seen!

Barchester’s Big Bingo Bonanza took place on 28th May 2024 when Scarborough Hall got super competitive and took on its sister homes from all over the country to find out which Barchester home or hospital was a dab hand at bingo.  It was eyes down for a full house as the homes battled it out to find out who would prevail.

Residents at Scarborough Hall Care Home in Scarborough have started their celebrations for Chelsea Flower Show which takes place from 21 to 25 May 2024 - as well as watching the show on TV, they also held their own competition for the green-fingered.

Created and run by the Royal Horticultural Society, Chelsea Flower Show is the world’s greatest flower show with stunning garden designs and gorgeous floral displays. 

Residents have enjoyed flower arranging activities, watching the Chelsea flower show and a trip to B&Q to purchase some flowers for our raised beds. Throughout the week we look forward to taking part in flower-based activities, reminiscing about their gardens/flowers in the home’s garden, virtual visits to famous gardens on YouTube and a flower quiz

Residents across our services had a wonderful time joining Cadbury for an interactive virtual talk on their fascinating 200-year history.

Residents joining learnt interesting facts about the chocolate giant, shared memories, and reminisced about their favourite sweet treats.

It was a heartwarming experience filled with laughter, nostalgia, and plenty of chocolatey goodness!

Resident Barry used to be an avid snooker player and has expressed his wish to play again sometime, the activity team along with carer Dawn planned a special day for Barry who enjoyed getting some fresh sea air and having a game at our local arcades in Scarborough. Barry was delighted when he realised he hadn’t lost his touch, and was even more pleased when he realised poor Dawn stood no chance of winning a game! Barry remembered when he and activity member Jess had a game of miniature golf last summer, Barry was once again the undefeated champion and now looks forward to our next sports related activities and outings over the coming summer months.

Since beginning her life at Scarborough Hall resident Ann has always been fond of recounting tales from the time she ran her much beloved boarding house in Scarborough on Ashville Avenue, she would reminisce with residents, team members and visitors about how wonderful it was being able to bring up her two young sons and make a living for the family at the same time. Ann knew she wanted to be at home for the children so it only seemed natural to extend her home making abilities to holiday guests who chose to frequent our seaside town.

Ann has always been super proud of her ‘bottom ender’ heritage and is able to remember a lot of Scarborough’s history and past times. When the activity team met with Ann’s sons and had a brainstorm for her perfect wish, all were in agreement along with Ann that the most meaningful thing for her would be to have a seaside tourist day with the activity team and family.

We started off the day by journeying to Scarborough’s North side in our minibus where Ann got the chance for a photo opportunity with her son’s outside her old boarding house, they then took a relaxing stroll around old town where Ann grew up followed by an ice cream at the traditional Harbour Bar!