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Latest News from Rotherwood Care Home in Rotherham

Our residents and staff have been very busy over the last few weeks.

We celebrated Children in Need, and our residents enjoyed baking Pudsey shape biscuits. We also enjoyed celebrating a 91st Birthday!

And last week we were feeling festive at Rotherwood when staff and residents started decorating the home ready for the Christmas period.

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Latest News From Rotherwood Care Home Rotherham

Rotherwood Care Home in Rotherham has been a hive of activity and fun for residents over the last few weeks.

Our resident enjoyed a shopping trip to Park Gate Retail World, followed by a coffee at Asda.

We wished a happy 64th Wedding Anniversary to two of our residents, who enjoyed a 3 course lunch with mocktails to celebrate their wedding anniversary.

We enjoyed a morning walk to Clifton Park, where our residents enjoyed a cup of tea in the museum followed by a walk around the park in the fresh air.

We had a fabulous pamper day where our residents enjoyed having their nails and hair done.

And finally, a big thank you to our staff at Rotherwood, who have recently completed a sponsored walk to raise money for the residents funds. Staff walked through Castleton, Winnats Pass, and up Mam Tor. The funds raised will be used for our Halloween and Christmas activities and entertainment, which everyone is looking forward to.

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Disco & Dance Afternoon At Rotherwood

Recently, we have enjoyed our disco and dance afternoon at Rotherwood Care Home in Rotherham.

Our residents have enjoyed singing on the karaoke and dancing throughout the afternoon to 60s classics and rock and roll.

This was followed with our treat trolley where our residents enjoyed a sweet treat!

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VE Day Celebrations at Rotherwood Care Home Rotherham

Here at Rotherwood Care Home in Rotherham our residents had the most wonderful VE day preparations and celebrations last week.

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Andrea and our lovely staff trimmed the home beautifully with all sorts of decorations, including ones made by the residents.

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On the day, our staff came in fancy dress and the morning was spent watching old war movies.

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Later on we had all sorts of activities and games, including a game of World War II themed skittles, which everyone enjoyed and which got quite competitive!

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War-time songs were being played, which residents were singing to along to with our staff and the activities coordinator.

Our thoroughly enjoyable VE Day celebrations were finished off with a lovely buffet tea, along with red, white and blue cupcakes.

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Valentines Day, Pet Therapy and More At Rotherwood Care Home Rotherham

Our residents have had a great time recently with Valentines Day craft activities, pet therapy and Valentine’s Day celebrations and party.

Everyone really enjoyed the events and loved the pet therapy.  We had Dave Jay entertain us on Valentine’s Day and he even got the staff up singing to the residents, which they all thoroughly enjoyed.

Sandra brought Coco in for pet therapy, which every resident took part in, even our bed bound residents. Coco brought a huge smile to everyone’s faces!

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Rotherwood Care Home Rotherham Latest News

Welcome to the Rotherwood care home latest news! We have a lot of activities going on here at Rotherwood.

Our wonderful residents have been enjoying some good wholesome fun in the last week with such activities as playing dominoes and baking some tasty treats.  Here’s some photos of them in action, including Stephen and some of our lovely ladies enjoying a good old-fashioned game of dominoes.

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We have lots of activities planned for February, which all our residents are looking forward to.

Here is our calendar dates:

6th February is the date Lost Cord will be coming along to Rotherwood to help us pass the time away with some singing and listening to them play their instruments.

10th February we have Dave Jay coming in from 14.30 hours to help get our Valentines day celebration under way, all the residents are looking forward to having a little dance along to Dave Jay.

We also have some valentine’s crafts planned with our residents and their families.  Please come along and help us make some valentines cards and gifts, along with some soap making and canvas painting.

To find out more about what is going on here at Rotherwood Care home just look at our news section on the website or call us on 01709 820025 and ask for Sue.