Activities at Cubbington Mill Care Home
Every day we run different activities throughout our home. The activities are designed and adapted to each individuals personal needs. The activities are designed to mentally and physically stimulate the people we care for and also to enhance their life skills and feelings of purpose and self-worth. The activities encourage interaction on a one to one basis, in small groups, in large groups and some are designed for the whole home including staff to be involved in.
We are registered with the National Activity Providers Association (NAPA) which ensures we are able to achieve and continually progress to enhance the quality of life for those we support in the home. We provide entertainers such as singers, musicians, magicians, puppeteers, poets and dancers. We also have regular exercise classes and arts and craft classes. Relatives and visitors will be able to see what me make in these classes on display around the home. We have regular trips out on the mini bus to visit garden centres, enjoy high tea, visit the butterfly farm and spend the day at the zoo with a picnic. We encourage the local community, schools, colleges and relatives to come and join us for activities, tea and cake and to visit to share their skills as much as possible.
Staff from across the home are always willing to help and share their knowledge and skills across a whole range of activities we have had everything from carers preforming Bollywood style dancing to cooking classes from the chef. We feel activities are a vital part of the residents lives to ensure they are stimulated mentally and entertained.
Rose Tucker
Hi my name is Rose and I am the activities coordinator at Cubbington Mill!
I have been working in care since I was 17 and very passionate about my role, always trying to do bigger & better. I am one of Cubbington Mills Dementia Champions. I'm very privileged to work with the wonderful people and residents at Barchester's Cubbington Mill and hope we all make some lovely memories together! I LOVE to find out about residents interests & hobbies through tools like the “Getting To Know Me Booklets”.
We are always open to new ideas. If you would like to get involved in any of our Life Enrichment activities or have a skill, or project you'd like to share with our residents, please click here to contact me direct. New entertainers and community links are always welcome.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Cubbington Mill Care Home
Singing For The Brain
There’s one thing enjoyed by all our residents here at Cubbington mill for sure and that’s our love for music and singing! On Thursday afternoons from 4pm, Rose holds a memory choir session, for all the residents to enjoy singing along to old classics, which promote stimulating memories from when they were young, playing Elvis and Sinatra tapes! We tap our feet and sing to our hearts content shaking the tambourine and egg shakers for the whole home to hear.
The 7 domains of wellbeing are implement each day into our residents lives, this is just one example of ‘Meaning’. Residents have a sense of purpose being a part of a choir where each voice matters and is needed, residents make sure each other are on the correct page ready to sing promoting feeling useful.
G-Fitness Mondays
Here at Cubbington we dedicate our Monday afternoons to promote the benefits of good health and wellbeing to all our residents. We got involved with Mick from G-fitness and his seated chair exercises 2 years ago, especially designed to improve and stimulate our residents physical health, as well as, mental wellbeing. During the session we explored a number of specially designed chair exercises, which are able to be enjoyed by all. Residents always take the time to thank Rose Cubbington Mills Activity Coordinator for the array of activities they have during the week!
Baking Club
Baking Club, kicking off 2024 to a tasty start we have homemade jam tarts by Cheryl, Janet, Hazel, Pat, Alison and Maggy! There are various ways we enrich the lives of residents at Cubbington Mill this is just one, reminiscing over baking scales, bowls and rolling pins. For January we decided to have our 'Value Of The Month' being 'Empowerment'. We show this by empowering residents to feel they can try any new skill or reignite an old passion.
There's a Gingerbread House Day - Who Knew?
We love any excuse to get creative so when we found out it was Gingerbread House Day on December 12, we didn’t need any persuading to get cracking.
Our talented residents prepared a big batch of giant gingerbread men, who then got busy decorating with icing, buttercream, marshmallows, dolly mixture, candy canes and edible glitter, to make some of the glitziest gingerbread men in town.
The gingerbread men look really lovely and they are indeed delicious - what a fun way to spend the afternoon.
A snippet of the Christmas period at Cubbington Mill so far!
Everyone was specially dressed for the Christmas festivities with colourful themed jumpers and costumes, residents enjoyed a variety of homemade treats and refreshments, prepared by the hospitality team, who were hard at work making sure that a great time was had by all – it really was a team effort! Our residents were filled with joy and there were smiles and laughter all around. Cubbington Mill was specially decorated with beautiful festive lights, garlands and wreaths by Activity Coordinator Rose and Head of Maintenance Waldemar. We’ve enjoyed some hot drinks, such as marshmallow hot chocolates, tea and one too many sherries!
A lovely time was had by all.
St. Mary's Church Christmas Tree Festival
Residents and staff had a brilliant time seeing all the festively decorated trees around the church and singing to all the Christmas carols. Every year St Mary’s Church holds a Christmas Tree Festival, inviting Cubbington Mill along, supported by Warwick business, schools and community groups, who sponsor and decorate Christmas Trees displayed throughout the Church. Thousands of people visit the Festival which opens on Victorian Evening and runs for the following ten days. Groups such as Spa Brass and local community choirs provide entertainment during the Festival.
