Activities at Scarborough Hall Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
Activities are the cornerstone of a wholesome home experience, and our Activities Coordinators are always putting their creative minds to the test by organising new and exciting social events for residents to partake in. Of course, we take into account the likes and dislikes of those we support, so if someone doesn’t feel like trying something new, there will always be something on offer to reflect their personal interests. For the people who may just prefer some peace and quiet instead, we also offer one-to-one time that can be enjoyed with a nice cup of coffee or just a simple chat – whatever they desire.
Jessica Larkin and Skigh Harrison.
We would like to welcome you to our activities team, Jessica Larkin and Skigh Harrison. Each coordinator started as carers in the home and they have worked together as an activities team for a number of years.
They are passionate about their role and providing the best for the Residents in the home, they enjoy finding new ways to of engaging and creating real and meaningful connections with the residents, through Resident centred 1-2-1 sessions, group activities, interesting outings and close links with our local communities.
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 Scarborough Hall Care Home
Community Sunflower Growing Competition
The activity team and residents at Scarborough Hall care home are excited to be hosting our annual community sunflower growing competition. We have invited our community contacts, residents, friends and family members to take part as an extension of our bi-weekly gardening club. The best sunflower will be judged by residents and there will be a prize for the winner.
Many of the residents remember this favourite past time from when they were children and have expressed a keen interest in keeping the tradition alive for our younger generation. This is one of the areas we are passionate about here at Scarborough Hall, we love empowering the youth in our community by passing on valued knowledge from much simpler times, all whilst attempting to break the societal stigma surrounding life in a care home, we do this through our intergenerational work with our links in our local community.
Come sing!
Residents across our homes and hospitals had a fantastic time with vocal coach Dan Cooper from Biiah as he led an amazing sing-a-long session for residents to enjoy.
Residents who joined the event were able to learn different techniques as they sang the famous ‘I Can See Clearly Now’ by Jimmy Cliff and ‘Here Comes the Sun’ by The Beatles.
Across our homes there were smiles and laugher all around. The session was such a success and was great for the mind, body and soul.
Easter celebrations
Residents and local community hosted their annual Easter egg hunt in style. Residents and local community at Scarborough Hall enjoyed an eggs-tensive range of Easter activities, we had Rachel from Ryedale Animal bring her Lambs for us to bottle feed in the lounge, and then we hosted our annual Easter egg hunt in the garden. While Becky and Rachel took the lambs around the rest of the home so everyone could enjoy them.
General Manager, Charlotte Nurse said: “As always, we’ve all been looking forward to Easter. It’s such a lovely time of year – the resident’s love the children and animals visiting us here.It’s really been an eggs-cellent few days!”
Inside the Factory
We had a brilliant time across our services with Harrogate Skills 4 Living as they took us on a wonderful virtual visit to their Harrogate Chocolate Factory.
Residents were thrilled to discover details about the chocolate-making process and the fascinating journey from bean to bar, all while enjoying some delicious sweet treats.
The Factory aims to employ people with learning disabilities and autism, involving them in all parts of the process, from sorting and roasting the beans to packaging and sales. The experience was truly enjoyed by all who joined this event.
Beat the Clock
We continue to celebrate a varied life enrichment programme and across our services we linked up with other Barchester care homes and hospitals up and down the country for some interactive Beat the Clock games.
Our residents truly enjoyed solving word puzzles, conundrums and mathematical problems as part of Barchester’s very own game show series.
Everyone who joined had a fantastic time and enjoyed some friendly competition.
Ringtons Community
For the last few years every other Friday we have our local Ringtons representative visit the home for a few of our ladies who used to get deliveries to their own home and would like to continue doing so now they reside at Scarborough Hall, even a few team members like to order their tea and biscuits for a treat. We have become good friends with the lads at Ringtons and we were absolutely delighted when they chose us to donate these beautiful paint by number gingerbread biscuit tins!
Residents have enjoyed painting these in our weekly craft clubs, the toddlers enjoyed having a go at our monthly intergenerational baby and toddler group and we even had enough left over to pay the kind gesture forward and gave some to our friends at Jitterbugs Nursery School at our quarterly meet up.
Upcoming events
Open Day
We are happy to announce our next Open Day event, which will be hosted at the home on Saturday 12th April.
Monthly Dementia Cafe
From 10.30 am the dementia café provides small respite and social support.
Monthly Coffee Morning - 1st Friday of the month
A chance to meet and chat over tea or coffee and homemade cakes
Meeting Room for Hire
Arrange a visit or pop into see what Scarborough Hall has to offer.
Could you be a Volunteer?
We recognise the impact a Volunteer can make on the lives of our residents, do you have any spare time? For more information we'd love to hear from you.
Emergency Services - Take a break on us!
Calling all emergency services personnel - police, ambulance and fire services, district nurses - come and take a break on us, there maybe a cake or two available....
