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CLAPA Fundraising Day at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
On Friday 1 December, we hosted a fundraising day for the charity CLAPA at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home. CLAPA stands for the Cleft Lip and Palate Association – a national charity for people born with cleft lips and palates and their families, who can provide...
Birthday wishes for Jean at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
Our Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home residents receive a weekly visit from Jean who provides them with an in-house Christian praise and worship service. Jean is a lay minister from our local church, and our residents love seeing her when she visits them. This week...
Chair fitness at seated line dancing at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
Our residents at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home enjoyed two chair-based fitness sessions this week. Their first was their regular chair fitness session with Alex from the Ellenor Team. Alex supports our residents to build their strength and mobility through a range...
St Andrews Day celebrations at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
We celebrated all things Scottish at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home on Thursday 30 November to mark St Andrew's Day together. We decorated everywhere in the Scottish colours of blue and white, and had highland music and the sounds of bagpipes playing in our Home....
Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home residents enjoy coffee morning and Farmers Market
Our residents at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home enjoyed two of their regular community outings this week. They visited our friends at St Michaels Church for their community coffee morning, which is always something we look forward to. Our residents are always...
Chair fitness and relaxing pastimes at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
Seated exercise Our Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home residents enjoyed their weekly chair fitness session with Alex from the Ellenor Team. These sessions are aimed at helping our residents improve or maintain their strength and mobility; this is done by doing...
Weekly Sunday Choir at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
Our choir practice is a fairly new activity at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home, but it always goes down a storm. We are still using our usual song list, but we're slowly adding Christmas songs! We sang 'Away in a Manger' and 'It's Beginning to Look a lot Like...
Many happy returns to Ellen at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
Our fabulous Ellen turned 88 on Tuesday 14 November and she had a lovely day with us at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home. She had visits from her family in the week and received what looked like a year’s supply of chocolate! We asked Ellen what she would like to do...
Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home residents train with G-Fitness
It was time for more chair fitness fun again last week here at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home. We hosted an hour’s session in our main lounge and as always, it was a fully packed class. Our residents did resistance band exercises, which are great for strengthening...
Remembering Roxi at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
Last week at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home, we lost our beloved resident dog, Roxi. Roxi shared 10 years with us all at The Lodge, giving love, affection and happiness to our residents and team members. Our brilliant Business Support Officer, Amanda rescued Roxi...
A weekend of fun at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
We’ve all had a fantastic busy weekend here at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home! Saturday morning started with some doll therapy. This activity can provide a sense of calm and is also is a great opportunity for our residents to reminisce. For lunch, our ladies and...
Remembrance Sunday at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
Remembrance Sunday will always be an important day for us at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home and we always try to commemorate it to remember our fallen heroes. On Remembrance Sunday we started by putting our poppies on to show support for our armed forces community....