Activities at Harton Grange Care Home
We understand that the people we support have passions and interests that could be difficult to pursue after moving into a care home – but that doesn’t mean we don’t encourage them to try! Some hobbies can define a person, so our Activities Coordinators are dedicated to ensuring that everyone we support is able to do what makes them happy to the best of their abilities. Social events are organised with individual tastes in mind and with the idea that residents have the opportunity to try new and exciting things.
Marius Sidoriuc
Hi, my name is Marius, I am the activities coordinator here at Harton Grange. I joined Barchester's family in 2021, as I found their approach and standards on dementia very interesting. Since early 2022 I work for Barchester as both activities coordinator and care assistant. In 2018, I started my journey in health and social care as a care assistant and very soon after, I completed courses on dementia and activities (NAPA, level 2) and I worked as both activities coordinator and care assistant in Kent. I'm also an apprentice in health and social care. I've met some amazing people that have guided my understanding of dementia.
The most important thing for me is to see our residents achieving a meaningful raison d'etre, living as they like and to benefit from a range of activities starting from Namaste to reminiscing and spiritual needs (such as praying or listening to hymns), art and craft, armchair exercises, music therapy or finger nail pamper sessions.
I like to acknowledge that I am working as a part of a whole team, including the fantastic management, hospitality and maintenance departments, promoting a person centred approach for each resident and we are glad to know each persons preferences and abilities in order to plan how the day will look with them. One way we are able to do this is through our residents' and family' meetings where we try to let everyone have their say about the way they want to live and the activities they take part in.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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 Harton Grange Care Home
Meeting the Reindeers
Across our homes we got into the Christmas spirit of things by joining a festive live virtual experience, led by Des and Kelly from Performing Pets.
Our residents were thrilled to meet the charming furry friends and get up close and personal with the reindeers.
We certainly learnt some interesting facts about the animals and had a fantastic time.
Christmas Treat Decorating with the Live Virtual Events Team
We have had a fantastic day today with Barchester's Live Virtual Events Team.
Our fantastic head chef Joy delivered an amazing event with Bex from the Live Virtual events team to all of Barchester's care homes. We decorated Snowman and Christmas tree cupcakes along with gingerbread men and other Christmas biscuits.
We often follow along with Live virtual events each month, but these events have never been streamed from a Barchester home before and we were so excited to be the first! It was very exciting having the cameras around.
The best part of the day was having a cup of tea and enjoying all of the yummy treats we had been working hard on!
You can take a look at a recording of the event on YouTube.
Live Virtual Event – Christmas Treat Decorating - YouTube
Thank you Live Virtual Events Team, we hope you come back soon!
All Saints Day
On 1st November we have celebrated All Saints Day (All Hallows' Day), Rev Deborah from Methodist West Harton Church visited us for Holy Mass. We enjoyed praying together, listening to the hymns, having the Eucharist (Holy Communion) and learning more about the Saints.
A trip to Asda
We spent a wonderful morning doing shopping in Asda Boldon. Audrey and Dotty have enjoyed today to buy sweets. Audrey wanted even to offer some chocolates to our wonderful carers and we bought plenty of cakes for them as well.
Tails 'n Snails
We had such a beautiful surprise today! Georgia from Tails 'N Snails visited us, transforming our morning into a very bright one despite the rainy weather. We were delighted to see Gizmo - a baby hedgehog, a 28-year old tortoise, Lola, a wonderful rabbit, a python snake, a gecko, and a Blue tongue Skink (lizard).
Thomasina, Moira, Margaret, Doris just loved to see and to cuddle the rabbit. Norma and Moira even enjoyed to touch the snake. Everyone had time to touch and even to talk to these beautiful animals.
Georgia was very knowledgeable and our residents appreciated very much. We are looking forward to seeing Georgia and her little friends on next month.
Halloween Celebrations
It was Halloween, so it was a spooktacular show! This year we had Christine as special guest. We had a special treat as well, it wasn't a trick as our chefs prepared lots of tasty Halloween recipes.
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