Activities at Field House Care Home
The Activities Coordinators here at Field House are always keen to learn about residents' interests and hobbies, tailoring meaningful activities to the likes and dislikes of those we support. Our mission is to ignite the past, appeal to current interests and embrace new ones, improving quality of life whilst stimulating the mind and senses. Activities are carried out via small groups or individually, supported by local volunteers. We have access to a range of local community facilities and nearby places of interest, prompting community engagement, and hold special events at the home, where we are entertained by guest vocalists and performers, with 'The Quiz Master' being a fan favourite.
Caroline Davis
Hi, I'm Caroline and I joined Field House in 2021 from another Barchester home. I have worked in care for the last 30 years and a big part of that has been with Barchester.
Here at Field House, I organise a variety of activities and social events within the home and in the community, such as gardening club arts and crafts, weekly exercise sessions along with live singers and musicians every month. We are also keen on regular outings to local landmarks, museums, cafes and shopping centres.
In my job, I'm able to develop excellent relationships with residents and their families providing the support they need. I am very passionate about my job role as it is very important to us as a team that every individual is able to live the life they wish and feel fulfilled in their everyday activities maintaining past hobbies and finding new ones.
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 Field House Care Home
Eyes Down
For some time now, we have been trying out different methods of playing bingo in order to be fully inclusive. Some of our residents, as with many more mature adults, have trouble with their hearing, and as much as they love to play Bingo, it is often very difficult for them.
Recently, we tried a new method: the numbers were called out as usual, but simultaneously written on a white board in their corresponding rows. The outcome was brilliant, all residents that wanted to join in were able to, and not a single person missed a number. A job well done!
Weekly Exercise
At our activities meeting, the residents at Field House had talked about how much they were enjoying the weekly exercise classes. As the conversation developed, it became clear that a large number of the residents would like to see some kind of exercise feature on the activity calendar more frequently.
So, along came January and, with it, it brought exercise classes three times a week! These classes vary in style and content, but this particular class is a firm favourite, gentle chair-based exercise. As of the 29th January, we have gone from one set of exercises to three repetitions of the set per class. Not a bad improvement in the space of a month!
The Wishing Tree
The wishing tree was a huge success, and although not every wish could come directly true, we tried our very best to get as close as we could, to as many as we could.
We had wishes that involved meeting Andre Rieu, that were met in the best way we could: with a signed photograph of him, kindly sent to us by his team in Maastricht, Netherlands.
We had wishes to travel on a hot air balloon, that were met through the wonders of a virtual reality device.
There was a wish in one bauble to revisit the Dolomite mountains, where the person had wonderful memories of watching the sunset there with her husband. We couldn’t take her to the Dolomites, but we did buy her a canvas of the sun setting over the Dolomites for Christmas, in the hopes that it would bring back some wonderful memories.
The joy this project brought to the residents and the home was felt at every level, and something we will most definitely be doing again.
Roger's wish was to have a cat, and you can see him with his new therapy cat above.
Wishing Tree
This is Fred; he is placing his Christmas wish bauble on our Christmas wishing tree. Let’s see how many come true!
Christmas Baking
This picture is of some of our residents preparing to make our Christmas cake for the Barchester Christmas Cake competition. Everyone took it very seriously and they were determined that they were going to win.
Poppy Display
This is the finished remembrance display. The residents were very busy crafting egg cups into poppies and thoroughly enjoyed making the striking display.
