Hempton FieldBarchester Healthcare

Activities at Hempton Field Care Home

Name: Hempton Field Care Home
Address: 36 Lower Icknield Way, Chinnor, Oxfordshire, OX39 4EB, GB
Telephone: 01844 809305

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.

Read our brochure ‘Life-enriching activities’ for more information about life in our care homes.

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Daisy Milne

Activities Coordinator

I previously worked in a nursing home as a receptionist. I really enjoyed this job, and it was there that I started to help out and get involved with activities.

I left the job to go travel around Australia. After I returned from my travels, I was so lucky that the activities position became available at Hempton Field when it did… I feel it was meant to be.

Celebrating life at Hempton Field Care Home

Tea Party

Thank you to Chinnor Community Church for the invite to your Sing-a-long tea party. Our residents had a wonderful time dining on the delicious afternoon tea and singing along to the live music.

Keeping in contact with our local community is so important for maintaining current friendships as well as making new ones!

25 year long service award!

A huge congratulations to our care assistant, Mandy, for achieving 25 years in the care industry. We are so proud of her for her commitment and hard work.

Mandy always has a smile on her face and is a delight to work with. She is thought highly of by her colleagues and residents. Thank you, Mandy, for all you do. We hope you will stay with us for a good few years to come!

Open Day Fun

On Saturday we opened our doors to our local community, we were entertained by performers throughout the day and were joined by two special guests - local councillor's Georgina Heritage and Ed Sadler.

Our residents enjoyed a question and answer session with them and found the experience very informative.

It was our pleasure welcoming you into our home and lovely to see so many new faces!

Celebrating National Pizza Day

On Sunday 9th February we celebrated one of life's greatest joys - PIZZA!

Residents had a fantastic time choosing their favourite toppings. From classic margherita to loaded veggie and meat delights, there was something for everyone to enjoy!

Seeing the smiles and laughter reminded us that good food and great company make the perfect recipe for happiness.

Royal Family Historical Talk

To mark the King's Birthday we invited a guest speaker into the home to tell us about the Royal Family and his time working for the police force alongside the most famous family in the world!

We learnt about some of the special moments and events he attended that were exclusive to those working for the family, meeting some of the tourists that travel from all over the world and more importantly the history of the Royal's and his time in the police force.

It was lovely to see all of his medals and hear so many exciting stories.

International Nurse's Day

We appreciate our nurses every day but today was even more special as it was 'their day'. Our residents wanted to participate in showing their gratitude so served them an afternoon tea and gifted them with flowers and chocolates.

So much work goes on behind the scenes, quite often nurses can be over looked...we just would all just like to say a huge THANK YOU for all you do!

Mothering Sunday

We enjoyed celebrating Mothers Day with some of our favourite cakes made by our wonderful kitchen team whilst being serenaded by Richard the saxophonist. It was a lovely afternoon shared with family.

Easter at Hempton Field.

Easter bonnet parade.

We hope you all had a lovely Easter....we certainly did!

Sticking with tradition we made Easter bonnets during our arts and crafts session and enjoyed parading them around the home.

Easter bonnets date back centuries and is believed to have originated from European springtime festivals that celebrated the arrival of spring and new life.

Seated Boxercise

Keeping our joints and muscles moving is important. There are plenty of opportunities to do this at Hempton, with a variety of exercise classes for all tastes.

Some of our ladies have been keeping fit by taking part in seated boxercise classes. It is a great low-impact workout and comes with many benefits including, building upper body strength, balance and co-ordination as well as improving motor skills and it also supports mental well-being.

Healthy body, healthy Mind!

Remembrance Sunday

Remembrance Sunday is always an important date in our diaries as we mark the day by joining the country in a 2 minute silence and remember friends and loved ones that supported the country proudly in the forces. We also took some time to make some homemade poppies before proudly displaying them in the home ahead of the national silence on Monday 11th November.

A wish come true

Frances, our nearly 102-year-old resident, wanted to fulfil her wish of feeding piglets. We got to work and made it happen!
Virginia from Collings Hanger Farm in Prestwood generously offered her time and spent the morning with our residents talking to them about her Tamworth pigs and life living on a farm.

The piglets were only 11 weeks old and so friendly. Frances was thrilled to be able to hand feed the piglets and enjoyed being in the woodland where the piglets have 5 acres to roam!

Place your bets!

We spent the last few days getting into the spirit of the Grand national, from making our very own fascinators on Ladies day to cheering on our chosen horses on the big day with family and friends.

Everyone had a lot of fun and the winners enjoyed their prizes

Did you get lucky?

Happy Valentines Day

Love was definitely in the air at Hempton Field this Valentine’s Day.

Residents received personalised gifts and themed balloons and were serenaded with love songs from our visiting vocalist.

We hope you all felt as much love as we did.

Festive Visit to the Garden Centre

Residents and Staff enjoyed a festive visit to Haddenham Garden Centre. It was the perfect opportunity to tick off those final gifts off our shopping lists.

After taking a leisurely stroll around the Christmas lights and displays, they stopped off to choose some new baubles for the home's Christmas tree.

Being out and about in the community is important for our Residents and equally as important is stopping off in the coffee shop for a tea of tea and piece of cake!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Halloween at Hempton Field

We celebrated spooky season in style by pumpkin decorating in Hempton Field. Joy our lovely Manager got stuck in with the messy job by carving some spooky creatures before putting them outside the home ahead of the children of Chinnor heading out for an evening of trick or treating.