Activities at Crandon Springs Care Home
Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.
Katherine Cork
Hello, my name is Kath and I’m the Activities Assistant here at Crandon Springs.
As part of the Activities and lifestyle enrichment team, I help in organising our daily activities, ensuring that all of our residents have a variety of activities to choose from each day. I love enriching our residents’ lives by providing meaningful and engaging activities and, having been both a teacher and care assistant in the past, have a wealth of experience behind me. You'll rarely find me without a smile and I'm very family orientated, and I love how both the residents' and colleagues Crandon Springs feel like a second family to me!
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 Crandon Springs Care Home
Christmas Wreath Making
Staff and residents at Barchester’s Crandon Springs care home in Wells were treated to an interactive virtual Christmas-themed floristry masterclass courtesy of Master Florist, Michal Kowalski, from Blooming Haus.
Blooming Haus, is one of the UK’s most innovative floral design and artisan studios. With sustainability and seasonality at the core of their designs, the duo behind Blooming Haus - Michal Kowalski and his business partner, Michael Dariane, bring a completely fresh approach to floristry and their ambition to push the boundaries of traditional floristry has laid the foundations of Blooming Haus’ success to date.
Residents and staff were invited to gather together flowers and foliage chosen by themselves and follow Michal’s demonstration to create their own Christmas wreaths. Residents’ arrangements will be entered into a Facebook competition judged by Michal and Michael to win Love2Shop vouchers.
Christmas Card Stall
This week here at Crandon Springs we have held our first ever Christmas Card Stall with local business Flamingo Paperie.
The pop-up shop allowed our residents to purchase their Christmas cards in good timing before we host our Christmas Card writing activities next week.
We look forward to welcoming Flamingo Paperie back into our home soon. Thank you!
Blanket Donation
Our residents here at Crandon Springs have recently received a warm delivery!
This week we had a lovely visit from The Mothers Union in Wells. The members of the Union had spent a considerable amount of time knitting three large blankets to donate for our residents.
As you can see - our residents were ecstatic!
Thank you so much to the Mothers Union we are extremely grateful.
Booster Vaccinations
All staff and residents at Barchester’s Crandon Springs care home, in Wells, are delighted to have received their third booster Covid-19 vaccinations from Shape Mendip.
General Manager, Natalie Deverall said: “We’ve all been through such a difficult time over the past 18 months but the vaccine has been so important in helping us get our residents’ lives back on track. I am so proud of the team and how they have worked together and continue to do so and we are all so grateful to be prioritised to receive the booster vaccine first. We’re not completely back to normal yet but we know the booster vaccination is vital to help us keep everyone safe.”
Act of Remembrance
Preparation has began here at Crandon Springs for residents, relatives and visitors to pay respects for Remembrance Day. The Life Enrichment team and residents here have decided to make a display of home-made poppies to remember and respect the lives that have been lost.
"Remembrance Day is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth member states since the end of the First World War to honour armed forces members who have died in the line of duty."
So far, we have created many red and purple poppies. The purple poppies represent all the animals lives we have sadly lost too. Please watch this space to see our finished display.
Spooky Season
Crandon Springs Care Home ran a Halloween themed competition throughout October for the local community to enter their spooky pumpkin carvings. We had a great response and some truly scary entries!
This week have chosen our winner Taylor and Two! The pictures below show the children with their pumpkin and also enjoying the gifts they have received. Well done, very well deserved for creating such a spooky pumpkin!
Our residents chose the winners and decided the children should be awarded with educational books as prizes.
Susan our residents said "They are beautiful pumpkins and must be rewarded with literature!" Susan has always been a school teacher and is extremely passionate about education.
