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Chair fitness session at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
It is so important to keep as active and mobile as possible – especially in our later years – even more so for individuals in a care home environment like our residents here at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home. Our residents really enjoy their regular chair fitness...
Sensory tray and creative pastimes at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
Sensory tray It is extremely important to incorporate a variety of activities and engagement opportunities for our residents here at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home, and this includes sensory-based activities. Our sensory tray has become a firm favourite amongst...
Pink Day for Breast Cancer Awareness at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
In October, we unfortunately had to postpone our Pink Day for Breast Cancer Awareness; however, we were very happy that we were able to celebrate together with families and friends at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home on Wednesday 23 November. We started our day by...
Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home residents enjoy pub birthday celebrations
One of our residents celebrated his birthday recently and requested to celebrate with some of his friends from Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home over a drink at our local pub, The Plough. We brought the party to the pub as we turned up in our party hats and decorated...
Marking Remembrance Day and reminiscing together at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
Remembrance Day is very important to us at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home and a special time for our residents. Everyone was very keen to mark this special occasion. Some of our residents got to work ahead of the day by knitting some poppies for staff and...
A visit from Gizmo at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
We were all very excited to be visited by another lovely Pet Therapy Dog here at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home recently. Little Gizmo, a very affectionate chihuahua, came in to see us all, looking very festive in his Christmas jumper! Our residents' faces lit up...
National Gingerbread Day at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
On Monday 21 November we were very happy to celebrate National Gingerbread Day with some delicious gingerbread men here at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home. 
 Our ladies and gents had lots of fun decorating their gingerbread men with a variety of sweets, chocolates...
Celebrating pickles and bread making at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
Our residents really enjoy activities that are food-based, so with National Pickle Day and National Bread Making Day so close together, it only seemed fitting to enjoy a bread, pickle and cheese tasting activity here at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home! Our ladies...
Arts and crafts talents at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
Our residents have been enjoying a range of different arts and crafts sessions recently here at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home. Many of our ladies and gents find these sessions very calming whilst they also encourage the use of their fine motor skills, for those...
Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home shopping trip to Bluewater
Person-centred trip to Bluewater We try to ensure that everything we do here at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home revolves around person-centred care, and this definitely includes activities, recreation and well-being. One of our residents, Rosina, requested to go out...
Celebrating World Vegan Day at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
Our residents at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home celebrated World Vegan Day on 1 November. We are all up for trying something new at Sonya Lodge, so our residents were keen to try some vegan foods to mark World Vegan Day. We had a vegan food tasting session with a...
Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home fireworks night
We had a spectacular fireworks night at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home on 5 November this year. Our residents got themselves settled and comfortable in front of our lounge windows, looking out to our garden. Brian then set off a wonderful display of a variety of...
