We are absolutely thrilled to have taken delivery of an OMNI Interactive Table this week which we have already started putting to good use.

The wide choice of activities and games on the table are designed to connect everyone through touch, sight and sound, whilst the projections help individual to unwind and relax, improving mood and emotional stability.

We can't wait to share with everyone how we get on with it over the coming months. 

Our first communion church service from the cathedral was a wonderful return one which the residents enjoyed very much, this service will take place every Wednesday. A huge thank you to the Cathedral.

Morag returned for her first live show with everyone and how fantastic was it.. Morag chatted about how much she had missed everyone and how wonderful to be back.. great tai chi class and fantastic to welcome Morag into the home again.

We have been in production mode in November making some gorgeous Christmas Wreaths. We have some talented resident’s in the home and we think they have made an excellent job of creating these Wreaths.

A happy home is something we always offer at Wallace View and our fabulous Domestic team are always singing.  The residents love it and one day they asked if they could have a sing along with the domestic team, which they were honoured to do.

Christmas wreath making at the home ready for Santa coming to visit us.  We started with the round base and added on the ribbons, tinsel and bows which we liked ready to hang on our doors in December.

We had a lovely day in November learning how to play the accordion.  The residents had such a chuckle trying to play this and the sounds were interesting.  We all took turns in trying to press the buttons and play along to some songs we knew.  It was much harder than it looked.

As the winter weather sets in we are hosting more movie afternoons at the home and in November we enjoyed a film of resident’s choice.  We had bags of popcorn and sweets along with a cuppa as we all watched the movie on Brambles and enjoyed reminiscing about when we first seen the film in the old picture houses.

We celebrated Elf Day at Field view and took the opportunity to have our elves set up our Christmas trees in the home and outside of the home for the residents to enjoy.  We even had a wrapping competition where our elves wrapped up Christmas presents as quickly as they could.  We hope they are busy wrapping up all our residents presents.

Here at White Rose Lodge, we have adapted one of our regular weekly activities, to make it more “Resident centred” so that Residents have more control in decision making. The sing along session on Saturday was curated by Pat, and she chose a selection of songs from a list. Each song was then introduced by Pat with the microphone and a reason why she chose it. Everyone gave Pat a round of applause at the end for her efforts and she said she enjoyed choosing the songs for everyone to sing along