Activities at Emily Jackson 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 activities team continues to offer a wide range of activities to both mentally and physically stimulate our residents. Our activities include one to one shopping, group outings in our minibus, and regularly attending our local church and bowling club. We also enjoy the entertainment from the musicians who come and visit us as well as our PAT dog. We have a range of activities so residents with all abilities and talents can join in activities and social gatherings. We encourage families and volunteers to share the joy with us by taking part in our social events as well.
Paula McGill
Hi, My name is Paula and I am the Lead Activities Coordinator here at Emily Jackson House. I absolutely love supporting our residents to take part in meaningful activities and delivering a person centred activity program.
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 Emily Jackson House Care Home
Biggin Hill airport trip!
All of us here at Emily Jackson House have been enjoying this fabulous weather. Last week we took a trip out to The Lookout Café at Biggin Hill airport. Resident Andrew was particularly thrilled as he used to fly aeroplanes, and he was so pleased to revisit a favourite place.
We enjoyed our drinks in the sunshine whilst watching the world (and aeroplanes) go by.
Margaret's 90th birthday celebrations!
It was the perfect afternoon to celebrate a special lady’s birthday.
Resident Margaret celebrates being 90. She was joined by her friends to enjoy a birthday afternoon tea in our lovely gardens.
Margaret was thrilled to see her friends and enjoyed celebrating in the sunshine.
Margaret said, "I’ve had such a lovely time. The cake was delicious!"
Doug's 95th birthday!
We had a fantastic day watching the rugby at Sevenoaks Rugby Club and celebrated Doug's 95th birthday.
The residents that joined us for the game are both keen rugby fans, having both played in their youth. Douglas when he was at school and Gerry played professionally for Gloucester.
Sevenoaks Rugby Club reserved special seats for our group where we were joined by family members. We were lucky with the weather and, even better, the Mighty Oaks won!!
Thank you to Sevenoaks Rugby Club for your hospitality and kindness.
Monkey Music
What a fabulous morning with Monkey Music Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks. We were joined by toddlers and their parents/grandparents for a morning of fun and music.
The activity got us all moving, singing and sharing the moment filled us with joy. The wonderful singing session created a symphony of connection between generations. This kind of intergenerational activity benefits everyone.
We all had such a great time and can't wait to welcome you back again.
Flower Arranging
We had a surprise delivery of flowers gifted to us by The Flower Studio Sevenoaks this week.
Jodie from the Flower studio very kindly donated some flowers for us to use, and we immediately set our lovely residents to work.
The residents had fun making new table decorations and filling an assortment with vases. The smell of fresh flowers filling our communal spaces. Thank you, Jodie.
Wow! What a busy day!
This morning was Holy Communion with St Luke's Church. We were joined by the Reverend Anne Bourne, who led us in prayer and songs.
Lunch was followed by a talk by Alison West, our physiotherapist who has been visiting Emily Jackson House residents for 25 years. Alison's talk was interesting and informative. She talked about having the right equipment and how to use it correctly.
Alison also demonstrated some exercises we could all benefit from doing to keep our limbs moving. Then we had a surprise from the children of Sevenoaks Primary School. The children delighted the residents with their lovely singing. We all agreed that we had a great day!
