Activities at South Grange Care Home
Our specialist activities staff are committed to organising a mix of activities and events for residents and the local community to get involved in, including trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and visits from entertainers and musicians. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.
Gillian Conway
Gill has worked for South Grange since 1996. Gill's role in the home is ensuring our residents enjoy a fulfilling quality of life. The programme that Gill and her colleagues provide is stimulating, creative and varied.
Gill enjoys the time she spends with residents and families. The team welcomes any suggestions made by residents and family members in relation to activities.
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 Grange Care Home
Weekly Nursery - Feelings
This week with our weekly visit from Grange Nursery we focused on the theme Our Feelings. Last year we helped the nursery children produce our own worry doll that everyone can recognise using different materials such as a wooden spoon as the body, wool for hair and fabric for clothing. Each week before we start our visit we go round the room to see how is everyone feeling on that morning and what is making us feel that emotion. This is a good way to let the children learn how to express their feelings. This week we had good feelings all round because the sun was shining and we were in good company and had a great morning with the children.
Happy Burns Day
To honour the famous Scottish poet, we had a facts and quiz morning before going onto have our Burns Day lunch.
Rory piped the haggis into the dining room before Perce beautifully addressed the haggis.
Our tables were specially decorated with tartan and Scottish flags for the occasion as our residents enjoyed delicious Haggis, Neeps and Tatties prepared by our talented chef, accompanied with a wee dram.
Pamper morning in the Salon
The ladies have been enjoying their pamper mornings in the salon. By having their nails painted by our activity girls and having their hair done by our in house hair dresser Karen!
The countdown is on for next week's pamper session.
National Activities Providers Week
We would like to take this opportunity to recognize and thank our wonderful Activity Coordinators here at South Grange. Gill, Michelle and Caitlin provide the unique, outstanding activities and entertainment to our residents every single day. They always go above and beyond their role and for this we are truly grateful.
As part of the week, our Activities Coordinators have been taking part in a whole host of events provided by NAPA, connecting and sharing ideas with teams across the country. Special celebrations are also taking place at the home throughout the week with residents, friends and fellow colleagues.
#NAPPW24 #ConnectedCommunities
Medical Detection Dogs
Across our services residents had a fantastic time during a special live virtual event, led by Emilia from Medical Detection Dogs. Emilia took us on a journey to discover how the organisation began training dogs to support people with complex health conditions, saving their lives on a daily basis.
Using their amazing sense of smell, these dogs can identify odour changes emitted prior an episode and alert the person to take preventative action.
We were introduced to the wonderful dogs and the science behind the sniff. It was a delightful experience for everyone, especially our canine-loving residents.
Groups are starting back up
Residents at South Grange are very happy that our community link groups are starting back up again after the well-deserved festive break.
We were given a nice warm welcome back to Songs and Memories at Monifieth and South Angus Church for an afternoon of singing. We all agreed no one had lost their beautiful singing voices over the break.
Upcoming events
November
The leaves are falling, November is calling and we have a fun filled month ahead.
Countdown to Christmas
Counting down the days to Christmas with a fun filled month ahead and we extend a warm welcome for you to join us - all welcome.
Merry Christmas!
Volunteers - Could you make a difference?
There are endless ways to get involved and we'd love to hear from you!
Emergency Services - Take a break on us!
Calling all heros! Come and take a break with us and enjoy a warm drink and a slice of homemade cake.
Community Cafe - Last Tuesday of the month
We extend a very warm welcome for our community friends to join us at our monthly Community Cafe - all welcome.
