Activities at Hempton Field Care Home
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.
Nina Mullerworth
Hello, my name is Nina and I have had the privilege of working at Hempton Field in my role as Activities Coordinator for over 15 years and I am looking forward to many more! I have enjoyed continually developing in the role with a variety of training courses, including a Level 2 NAPA and Aromatherapy Massage.
I love interacting with the residents and organising a varied programme of activities with a person-centred approach based on Barchester's Life Enrichment Programme of enhancing the wellbeing of mind, body and soul. This includes ensuring residents can continue to enjoy hobbies, life experiences and keep active through exercise and music. We are involved with local clubs and welcome in members of the community as well as a variety of outings in the minibus - these are always very popular!
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 Hempton Field Care Home
National Chinese Writing Day
To celebrate 'National Chinese Writing Day' our residents took pleasure in requesting chef to cook them an authentic Chinese meal. Just look at their smiling faces... they absolutely loved it!
Rhythmic Morning Moves
This morning's exercise class with Nina our lovely ladies enjoyed waking their bodies to 'summertime tunes' and pom-pom shaking!
Farewell to HRH Prince Philip
In loving memory of His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh our residents took great pleasure in spending time to read and reminisce on his life, love for the Queen and all the good work he has done for our youth and the planet through his innovations.
We gathered together in lounges and rooms to pay our respects, watching the whole ceremony and raising a glass to say a dignified and beautiful 'goodbye and thank you' to the Prince. Rest in Peace - HRH Prince Philip
Back to School Party
The school bell rang and Mrs Thursby (our wonderful General Manager) Sharon, called all our student (residents) to assembly. Going ‘Back to School’ for the day on 7th April 2021 was the choice of our residents and they really went for it! The day started with a spring themed school assembly, giving thanks for all we have, poem recitals and the whole school singing ‘All things bright and beautiful’ before our PE lesson with Mrs Clifford-Mullerworth (Nina).
All classes enjoyed a break-time drink of milk direct from the old school bottles and straws handed out by Milk Monitor (aka Head of Maintenance) John. Everyone took pleasure from an informative rolling back of the years in our history lesson, reminiscing about old school days, including songs, rhymes and games. When teacher left the classroom, the naughty behaviour started, with paper plane making and throwing, using their snack boxes for protection! George, having been nominated as School Captain soon got them back on track before teacher returned and sounded the dinner bell. He definitely wore his badge with pride all day!
Our canteen staff (Chef and the hospitality team) created an amazing menu of memories for our students of beef stew and dumpling’s or spam fritters and fries, followed by sticky toffee pudding and (of course) cold custard!
During the day we ‘virtually’ opened our school gates (via zoom) to welcome the student (Residents and Staff) of Southerndown High School Barchester Healthcare joining us on their sponsored Cyclethon journey. Reaching Hempton Field marks their residents and staff achieving a total 74 miles of in-house pedal cycling in support of Young Carers across Oxfordshire Be Free Young Carers. We’re all so proud of their achievement so far, and wish them well onto their next pit stop Middletown Grange Care Home to find out more about the challenge please visit https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Team/Barchester
Gifts for Chinnor Community
During the Easter weekend activities our residents took time to prepare a basket of gifts for the Chinnor community. We wanted to give thanks for the everlasting friendships we have with the St Andrews Church Chinnor community.
Easter Treats and Simnel Cake
We hope you've all had a chocolate 'smashing' Easter weekend! Our residents have had lots of fun here at Hempton Field. Each received a scrumpious chocolate egg, which we had the pleasure of presenting individually in a hand crafted patchwork baskets gifted by one of our lovely resident family members.
Easter Sunday afternoon we got together to partake in 'tea' and enjoy a slice of the traditional Easter Simnel fruit cake baked by chef.
