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.
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
Tea Tasting Morning
Field house residents celebrating Tea Day! We enjoyed tasting different tea, Elizabeth said it was lovely to try other drinks as some times you do feel like a change for your normal cuppa but I’m always to worried in case I don’t like it but I’ve really enjoyed the great the with lemon and I think I would like to have it again for definite. Howard really enjoyed the lychee and mango tea he said it probably wouldn’t of been a tea I would of tried but I’ve really enjoyed the freshness of it and would recommend it.
Lingen Davies Cancer Fund Coffee Morning
We had a fantastic morning opening our doors to such lovely people. Lots of cake eaten and coffee drank. Our visitor’s said they had a fantastic morning getting to know our residents there was lots of story’s told and even renewing old friendships. Jean spent the morning chatting to an old neighbour she hadn’t see for a while and Alice was having a lovely time talking to two visitor’s that had Liverpool family connections and memories so she had a fantastic time talking about her home town. We raised £131 just at our coffee morning and still have or fundraising ideas to do.
Doodles the Sheep
Tracey, Doodles' owner, has visited us before with other animals she looks after through being unwanted or injured but it was the first time Doodles had ever visited anywhere like Field House and he was very well behaved!
“Fantastic” said Mary “I can’t believe how long his coat is and is so well behaved”.
Betty thought it was great that Doodles wanted to eat her left over cake. The visit was a great topic of conversation for days after.
Nursery Visit
Such a lovely visit from little Acorns Nursery the residents had the children had such big smiles on their faces as they walked in to the conservatory Howard said how lovely to see their happy faces and that you can tell they are getting to know us and some of the children headed straight to the residents to show them their individual scrap books of themselves at Nursery and all the fun things that they have done. Before the visit we had a discussion about what craft group we could arrange for the children and the residents came up with making and colouring in wind mills. The windmills were a success and everyone loved them even the residents! And at the end of the visit the children sang nursery songs to the residents and they joined in.
Hollywood Bowls
One lucky Residents at Field House had his wishing well wish come true with a trip out to the Hollywood Bowling alley at Shrewsbury. Joe a keep out door bowler had never been tenpin bowling and thought her would like to give it a go, he asked one of his friend from field house to come with him so off we went. Then men both didn’t know what to expect and were amazed as we walked in side, joe said it was like walking in to Las Vegas! After Joe said it was a fantastic morning and better than he had expected and he thinks that some of the other residents would enjoy the trip out as well and make a monthly thing of it.
Vegas Afternoon
We had a fantastic time playing black jack and roulette! Choosing their numbers handing over their chips, the very lucky winner with four wins in a row was the lovely Jenifer, she couldn’t believe it! After our chef Dan made the residents some lovely cocktails that went down very well. After tea Howard asked if we could do it again.
