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
Ice Cream Day
On Friday the residents and staff all enjoyed an afternoon of ice cream treats. The Activities team put together a trolley full of delicious ice cream with a variety of toppings. The trolley went around the home playing the traditional ice cream van tunes whilst delivering tasty treats to every resident, staff and visitor in the home. We had the choice of Vanilla, Chocolate, Strawberry, Raspberry Ripple, Mint Choc Chip and Salted Caramel ice creams with toppings to everyone's taste. The flavor of the day was defiantly salted caramel with fudge sauce and a chocolate flake.
Smoothie Making
At Challoner House we decided to boost our Nutrition and Hydration by spending this morning making some thirst-quenching smoothies. The residents chose some of their favourite fruits to blend with some vanilla ice cream.
We decided on smoothies as they are ideal for all our residents’ dietary requirements and when we had finished making a variety of flavours, we were able to take a trolly around the home offering to all our residents in their rooms.
Our residents chose to make three different flavoured smoothies, we had Pineapple and Peach, Strawberry with Raspberry and Peach and lastly strawberry, banana and mango. During the activity session we spoke about the different fruits, textures and flavours then voted for our favourite from the three with the winner being Strawberry with Raspberry and Peach.
Challoner Travels
This month our residents have enjoyed some lovely mini bus outings to the New Forest and to Carlos Ice Cream Parlour. The residents were able to choose their favourite ice cream to enjoy in the gardens at Carlos overlooking the petting animals, We were really lucky to have a couple of warm and sunny days so chose to spend as much time outside as possible. The residents like driving out to Carlos and driving out into the new forest to see the ponies.
VE Day Celebrations
Challoner House marked the anniversary of Victory in Europe Day in style by throwing a 1940s afternoon tea party to remember. The home was decorated in red, white and blue and we enjoyed an afternoon of big band music and dancing out on the courtyard.
Head chef Weronika whipped up a delicious selection of freshly-baked biscuits, cakes and pastries for the occasion, all washed down with pots of tea and a celebratory glass of Pimm's to mark the occasion
Joint Birthday Celebrations
At Challoner House we were delighted to be holding a joint 90th Birthday Party for two of our lovely ladies Mavis and Pamela. Mavis and Pamela were joined by Family, Residents and Staff for an afternoon tea party.
Challoner House always make sure our residents enjoy their special day by decorating their rooms with Banners and Balloons, The Chef makes a delicious homemade cake and we always have a party.
100th Birthday Celebration
Challoner House was delighted to be able to celebrate the centenary birthday with our lovely resident Margaret. Margaret started her 100th Birthday with a champagne tea party with all her fellow residents and staff, Margaret was delighted to show off her special card from Our King and Queen Charles and Camilla. In the afternoon Margaret was joined by all her family and friends for a private party held in our dining room and catered for by our head chef Weronika.
Margaret has said ‘ Thank you to all the wonderful staff at Challoner House for making my day so very special’
