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Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home hosts Stars in Their Eyes show
Our Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home ladies and gents were treated to a fantastic 'Stars in Their Eyes' show last Wednesday, with an amazing performance by Mimi. Every song had a different outfit which was transitioned beautifully. The outfits were stunning –...
Brain training games at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
During this past week at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home we've shared a number of mentally stimulating activities. We've enjoyed lots and lots of word searches and cross words (firm favourites here!). We have fabric wallets that hang on our cupboard in the lounge...
Relaxing activities at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
Here are some of the activities we have been getting up to at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home in the last week: We started with some water painting – a popular activity here at the Lodge. Our painting mats are from the brand 'Relish' who create stimulating...
Chair fitness is a firm favourite at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
At Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home, our weekly routine of chair fitness with Alex gets us all ready for our week! An hour of different levels of chair exercises with great tunes. Our lounge fills up with people waiting for the class and if it isn't full at first, it...
Lent service with Jean at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
Each Tuesday afternoon, the lovely Jean comes into Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home to conduct a service for our residents. A lot of thought and effort goes into these services and they're themed every week. As we're in the run up to Easter, Jean spoke about Lent and...
Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home residents keep fit with Alex
Every Tuesday, Alex conducts a chair fitness session for us at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home. Chair fitness is so popular here at the Lodge – it's one of those classes that we never want to end! Alex leads a range of exercises to keep our residents fit and...
Cruising to Egypt at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
Our second Nellsar mini cruise location was Egypt at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home. We started the day by getting our Home ready to sail, making our own bunting with Egyptian Flags. We learnt lots of interesting facts about Egypt; our favourite was that Cairo is...
Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home residents love seeing Gizmo and Charlie
Last week, we had a visit from not one, but two dogs here at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home! Gizmo and his brother Charlie came to spend some time with us all. They made their way around our Home and gave cuddles to each and every resident, accompanied by their...
Introducing Music Therapy at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
Here at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home we have recently started something new – Music Therapy! Every Friday we have Grace, a Music Therapist, come and spend the day with us. Grace has a wide range of instruments including a keyboard, banjos, tambourines, flute,...
Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home celebrates World Gratitude Day
We celebrated World Gratitude Day here at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home last week and what better way to do this than to talk about what we are grateful for! We made a 'Gratitude Tree', writing down something we are grateful for and hanging up our comments on our...
Namaste at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home
Here at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home we have embarked on a new concept journey called Namaste. Namaste is a holistic approach of care for those with dementia which provides physical and emotional activities with a loving energy. At Sonya Lodge our room is set up...
Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home residents feel the love on Valentines Day
We all had the loveliest Valentine's Day at Sonya Lodge Residential Care Home, when love was in the air! We started the morning by getting our Home full of love, with bunches of pink and red roses. After this, our residents enjoyed decorating cupcakes with pink...