Activities at South Chowdene Care Home
Our home is always full of life, and we can thank our wonderful Activities Coordinators for this. Dedication to creating a unique and interesting activities programme is what sets us apart from other homes. We always take into consideration that some people would prefer to pursue their own interests, which is why our team strive to incorporative activities that cater to a wide range of tastes and hobbies. Our trips out are always fun and exciting as well, and residents are guaranteed to return with stories to tell their loved ones!
Niki Powell
I arrange meaningful activities for all of our residents based on their likes and interests. I love sharing fun times with our residents, their families and with staff. I thoroughly enjoy chatting with residents about their hobbies/interests as well as reminiscing in small groups.
Our activities extend beyond the home with trips to places of interest, places residents have enjoyed throughout their lives eg. Seaside, parks, garden centers, as well as craft/ art workshops at libraries and general interest talks around the area.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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 South Chowdene Care Home
St Andrew's celebrations
The residents at South Chowdene Care home in Low Fell enjoyed a celebration of Scottish culture and fare to mark St Andrew’s Day on Wednesday 30th November.
In honour of Jesus’ first disciple who promoted kindness and is laid to rest in Edinburgh, head chef Lynne Parkin baked traditional Scottish foods including haggis, neeps and tatties, shortbread, cranachan and apple and bramble pie accompanied by a wee dram for everyone to enjoy.
In the afternoon some of the residents took part in a traditional Highland Games including the sprint, tossing the caber, hammer throw and enjoyed some Scottish fiddle music whilst on a virtual tour of the Highlands.
Remembrance Sunday
This year saw a new Poppy in our lounge, made by residents who had a very chilled time sat together painting each small poppy ready to make into one large display poppy. Noel and Derek enjoyed a visit to Saltwell Park to take in the poppy display and fountain there. This gave Noel a chance to visit his Regiment monument in the park and to pay his respects. On Remembrance Day itself, residents enjoyed and joined in with a poetry recital before the 2-minute silence and then a WW1 singalong encompassing a virtual walk down ‘Lambeth Walk’.
Halloween Antics
South Chowdene residents decorated the home with self made decorations including a big witch frieze and goodies we could eat at the party – skeleton biscuits and blood and snake jelly cups. Dave Brewis came along to entertain us with spooky songs but also some of our firm favourites which had us up dancing.
Fun with the 'Young-Uns'
Ellie and Grace are very kindly coming in to have fun with us, organising new and exciting events, chatting and having a laugh. Over half term, Grace put together a playlist which residents very much enjoyed and had a good singalong to as well as bit of a bop with the ‘Poms’. Ellie also came in to help with a ‘Beetle drive’, we love her rather colourful beetle pictures and are very much looking forward to working with both Ellie and Grace again soon.
Macmillan Coffee Morning
Staff and residents welcomed community into the home for coffee/ tea and cakes raising money for Macmillan. Staff made cakes, family members also brought cakes in to help us out, Annie (our PAT dog) sent muffins in with her picture on and we managed to raise £160. A big thank you to everybody who contributed and attended. Residents very much enjoyed seeing regular visitors all together, chatting about the aims of the day as well as meeting new people.
Mental Health Week
This was a chance to reflect on how well we look after ourselves and what can be done to maintain a positive mindset especially going into winter. We kept our minds active with a quiz, exercised phisically, played balloon tennis to encourage co-ordination but the favourite was having a good laugh and going back to childhood playing with bubbles.
Upcoming events
July
Hello July! We extend a warm invitation for you to join us throughout the month - all welcome.
Coffee Morning - last Tuesday of the month
We extend a warm invitation for families, friends and neighbours to join us at our monthly coffee morning, last Tuesday of the month from 10.30 am.
Could you be a Volunteer?
Do you have spare time? Could you make a difference to someone's day to day activities? We'd love to hear from you.
Take a break on us!
Calling all professionals - come and take a break on us! There may be a cake or two available...
