Activities at Challoner House Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life. Our specialist activities staff are committed to organising a mix of activities and events for residents and the local community to get involved in, including trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and visits from entertainers and musicians. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.
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 Challoner House Care Home
Autumnal Craft
The residents at Challoner House have enjoyed some Autumnal craft sessions over the last month, our favourite was looking at the different pumpkins, Squash, leaves and flowers that we have had fall in the garden and then along to some relaxing music do some still like drawings.
At and Craft sessions are a big hit at Challoner House as it gives us a chance to bring out our creative side as well as being good for the soul and our dexterity. We hold regular crafting sessions at Challoner House which we always try to theme to the seasons and celebrations.
Family and Friends Quiz Afternoon
Every month we invite our family and friends to join us for a themed activity afternoon, this month we held a quiz consisting of 9 rounds which ranged from geography to TV and film we also had a few picture rounds. The quiz was a great success with the dining room full of many family teams, our winners of the day was our lovely Rosie and family which names themselves the Bakers and Brains, Rosie won a lovely bottle of bubbly to take away and share, we also had prizes for our runners up. Our family and friends afternoon are proving great success and will continue to enjoy our monthly meet ups as it is a great way of our families getting to know each other.
Marcus the entertainer
This month the residents and staff at Challoner House were delighted to welcome back Marcus, Marcus came and sang us through the decades and dropped a few entertaining jokes in along the way, Marcus is a joy to have in the home as he truly entertains each and every resident, Marcus will be back to entertain us on October 26th at 11.00am and everyone is welcome to come along and join us.
Oscar the cockapoo!
The residents at Challoner House have had a lovely week being joined by little Oscar the cockerpoo, Oscar has been coming into Challoner every afternoon and meeting all our residents. The residents really enjoy seeing Dogs around the home, We also have a visiting P.A.T Dog Cassie that comes into see the residents every Monday morning. Pet Therapy is really important to our residents as it can help Boost well-being and improve physical, mental, and emotional functioning and reduce conditions such as depression, anxiety, and loneliness.
Family Games Afternoon
On Saturday we invited all our family and friends along to enjoy an afternoon of gaming fun, Our original plan was to be in the garden playing some games however due to our wonderful British weather we had to make a quick change of plan so we set up some nostalgic board games indoors. The afternoon brought lots of fun and laughter as well as some reminiscing of family Christmases and parties where the games would all come out. Our afternoon was finished off with some delicious homemade cakes and refreshments.
Sunny Singalong
At Challoner House we love a good singalong especially on a sunny afternoon, This month we have been entertained by the lovely talented Debbie Corbett, Debbie came and sang for us some beautiful sunny day sing song which was then finished off with some delicious refreshments.
