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.
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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
National Scrabble Day
National Scrabble Day, celebrated on 13 April every year, marks the birthday of the game's inventor, Alfred Mosher Butts, who was born on 13 April 1899. The iconic board game is now so popular, it's sold in 121 nations and played in 29 different languages.
Scrabble is a great game to bring intellectual stimulation and can be played both in teams and individually, and it is a hit among the residents at South Grange in Monifieth.
Indoor Gardening
One of our residents decided that he would like to recycle some milk cartoons and turn them into herb planters. Michael painted and decorated the cartoons and planted dill, basil, parsley and chives. Michael then went on to make wooden plaques with the names of the herbs. We are now seeing the herbs beginning to flourish.
Happy Easter
South Grange had a very busy Easter weekend. Residents enjoyed making Easter bonnets and entering them in to be judged, with the winner receiving a large egg from the Easter bunny.
They also took part in our Easter quiz, which again brought out their competitive side. The Easter bunny was very busy on Sunday delivering eggs to all our ladies and gents.
The weekend was finished off with a virtual concert by our local entertainers, and plenty of singing and dancing was enjoyed by all.
Home celebrate long service award
A Laundry Assistant at South Grange in Monifieth has received a prestigious 25 Year Service Award in celebration of working at Barchester Healthcare for 25 years.
Patricia Harris, previous care assistant and laundry assistant, started at Barchester in March 1996 and has worked with residents and their relatives to ensure that their needs have been met over the years.
Easter celebrations at South Grange
Staff and residents at Barchester’s South grange care home, in Monifieth, celebrated Easter with a whole host of different activities including Easter Quiz, Easter Bonnet Competition and Easter Bunny Hunt, followed by an Easter tea party.
Residents at South grange enjoyed an eggs-tensive range of Easter activities, from an Easter Bonnet competition, virtually attending an Easter concert to receiving a gift of Easter Bunnies. Residents also tucked in to a delicious Easter meal of roast lamb followed by Easter cake prepared by the home’s head chef Ross Morrison.
Operational Manager, Fiona Torrie said: “As always, we’ve all been looking forward to Easter. It’s such a nice time of the year – the residents love all the colourful Easter eggs and the Easter Bonnet competition. It’s really been an eggs-cellent few days!”
V & A Dundee
Staff and residents at Barchester’s South Grange care home in Monifeth were treated to a virtual talk about Mary Quant’s influence on the world of fashion by V&A Dundee curator, Mhairi Maxwell. The talk forms part of a series of six talks and virtual tours that V&A Dundee is hosting for Barchester Healthcare’s care homes and private hospitals across the UK.
V&A Dundee is Scotland’s design museum, it showcases Scotland’s outstanding design achievements and features world-class exhibitions alongside the permanent Scottish Design Galleries, and a changing programme of commissions, events and activities.
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.
