Activities at Strachan House Care Home

Residents enjoyed a visit to the military museum in Wilkeston where they walked around learning about the interesting history. 

What a fantastic way to spend the afternoon!

We had a brilliant time with curator Sarah Deters as she took us on a virtual ‘Music Through the Ages’ tour of St Cecilia’s Hall: Concert Room and Music Museum.

Our residents were thrilled to discover weird and wonderful musical instruments, hear their unusual sounds, and find out how instruments have changed over the last 500 years.

The virtual live event explored the world-renown collection of musical instruments on display at St Cecilia’s Hall, Scotland’s oldest concert hall.

A lovely time was had by all.

What better way to catch up with friends and have a good natter.

We jumped at the chance to enjoy a freshly prepared afternoon tea by our lovely Chef, Paul.

Our lovely residents enjoyed a selection of sandwiches, sausage rolls cakes and freshly made scones. We chatted and reminisced over the best afternoon teas they have ever had ❤️

A surprise visit from Muriels great nephew, Edward and his wonderful accordian playing topped off a wonderful afternoon. It was such a success that we will be doing a fortnightly afternoon tea club in which our residents will be organising and running themselves. Feel free to pop along and lend them some support. 😀

We joined forces with Roy our historian and took a bus trip to South Queensferry to learn about this iconic structure.

Roy gave an excellent talk on the history of the bridge and how it was built. Our residents were then treated to the surprise arrival of the Cruise Princess ocean liner . What a spectacular sight she was.

Our residents had a fantastic afternoon and the weather was yet again on our side!

Staff and residents at Barchester’s Strachan House care home in Edinburgh got up close and personal with some furry friends when they celebrated World Lion Day on the 10th August. Barchester care homes all got together and travelled in convoy to Blair Drummond Safari Park to enjoy a day of viewing and learning about the African lion.

World Lion Day is an annual event to celebrate the awareness and conservation of one of our most beautiful cats in the world. 

Olive Duncan and Betty Munro had a brilliant time learning about these spectacular creatures and their characteristics, reminiscing about their own pet cats and finding out fascinating facts about cats in general.  Staff and residents had a fabulous day and got to see other fascinating animals along the way.

And so our tournament begins. We kicked off with our first sporting event Garden Cricket and what great fun we all had!

All units within the home competed a 2 over's each game with first floor taking the first 3 points of the tournament.

Second with 2 points was our memory lane and closely followed in 3rd by ground floor with 1 point. There's still a long way to go with plenty of point up for grabs.