Activities at Strachan House Care Home

The residents and staff at Strachan House have had an actioned packed week filled with a selection of activities and game as part of their Olympic themed week. During the week Residents were treated to  - Move it Monday, music marathon, work it out Wednesday and throw it back Thursdays before finishing of the week with an awards ceremony.

We celebrated International Youth Day virtually with English National Ballet’s youth dance company, ENBYouthCo and their Creative Director, Richard Bermange.

We had the opportunity to watch A Comedy in Long-shot, participate in a chair-based creative dance workshop and observe an open rehearsal where Richard and the young dancers created a performance inspired by our childhood memories.

They took part and we didn’t realise Ballet was so meaningful, with all the different movements, and afterwards spoke of this and created their own movements and what it had meant to them.

It was a wonderful experience, enjoyed by all.

Strachan House in Edinburgh celebrated with a colourful display as of balloons as part of National Balloon Fiesta Day which was  followed by a tea party and a good old sing-a-long in the garden once the balloons had been let off.

Residents, their relatives and staff all got involved with the spirit of the balloon fiesta and released over 100 colourful bio degradable balloons into the sky for the balloon race to begin. We have put special tickets on with our address and a special message on each one from individual residents, staff and relatives in the hope someone will find one, let us know where they are so we can see how far they travelled!. We followed this by having a balloon themed tea party especially prepared by the homes hospitality team.

Staff and residents at Barchester’s Strachan House were treated to a talk about nightclub culture by V&A Dundee Curator, Kirsty Hassard.  The presentation 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.  

Strachan House in Edinburgh has celebrated International Cowboy Day in style. The residents, relatives and staff celebrated International cowboy day by being entertained from our local musician, Alan Weatherhead who set our theme perfect by playing the best of country and western music!

Our residents and staff were dressed for this occasion with their best tartan shirts, cow boy hats and neck ties. Our chefs provided us with a feast of a BBQ which had their special handmade burgers, hotdogs and other tasty delights.

We even had a visit from our four legged furry friend from Craig Crook Fields, Gus the Shetland pony. Our carers taught us some line dancing called “the Strachan shuffle” which was highly entertaining. We also had our Wild West cocktails which consisted of Rodeo raspberry rum, Montillia Shrub summer punch and our delicious Texas Roadhouse Cowboy Quencher.

We enjoyed a wonderful virtual introduction to the world of robots with V&A Dundee Curator, Kirsty Hassard.

Kirsty talked us through the history of robots and their early beginnings, the presentation traced the fascination of all things wired and wonderful and considered what the future might hold for our relationship with a multitude of mechanical machines.

It was absolutely thrilling to learn what robots can do now and what they might be able to do in the future.