Activities at Kings Park 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.
Claudia Canosa
Claudia moved to the UK from her native South Africa with her family some 6 years ago, although her family are of Italian decent.
With a caring nature, Claudia worked for a domiciliary care company helping in people in the community before eventually working in a care home environment, working up to the role of Senior Carer.
Realising how much she enjoyed making the residents smile, Claudia has now stepped into the role of Activities Lead here at Kings Park and very much loves the interaction with our residents, who have all taken a real shine to her.
Claudia can regularly be seen with our residents in a very creative capacity, enjoying flower arranging or leading everyone in a game of good old fashioned Bingo!
When at home, Claudia is a mother to two boys and a girl and also a pet mum to the the gorgeous, Molly - a Jack Russell cross.
She loves nothing more than curling up on the sofa in front of a good rom/com, with: The Holiday, The Lakehouse and The Notebook as some of her favourites to date.
We are so happy to have her as part of the Kings Park team.
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 Kings Park Care Home
A Very Grateful Family...
Our very own Activities Lead, Claudia, was recently thanked by one of our very grateful families for her hard work and dedication to making a difference to their family member recently...
Claudia spent time ensuring that one lovely resident in particular, was supported in the best possible way and, as a show of gratitude, the family of that resident showed up with a lovely gifts and card, especially for her!
Here she is, very pleased indeed by the kindness and appreciation shown to her.
Well done, Claudia, you are an unsung star... Until now!
Thank you to the family in question, too - You know who you are! Your lovely gesture has brought a lovely smile to a much deserving person in our home.
Terrific Tenpin!
Recently here in our home, it was all happening up on our Memory Lane floor...
...Some may have even said you could have been, 'Bowled over!', with all the fun and shenanigans they were having up there!
Tenpin Bowling was the name of the game and all our residents loved it, really giving it some gusto as they threw their balls along the corridor as they aimed for the pins in their way.
Such a fantastically fun way to spend an afternoon, whilst also getting their exercise in for the day too!
WELL DONE EVERYONE who took part.
A Little Bit of Mischief!
One of our lovely residents, Mary, thoroughly enjoyed her outing on the minibus recently...
After a lovely drive, the residents ended up having a wander around the Dunelm store, enjoying a bit of browsing, before finally stopping for a cuppa and some cake in their cafe.
Mary, was quick to make friends with another lady who was enjoying her coffee in the cafe also (thank you for allowing us to share this lovely snap with Mary), before deciding to create a little bit of mischief about the place and make everyone smile...
Suddenly, and much to everyone's surprise, as they were enjoying the peace and quiet, Mary pulled out of her handbag, a party blower, before giving it almighty puff, making her arrival known to others in the vicinity!
This completely caught everyone off guard and before long, almost all of the cafe were having a little giggle at the situation!
The camera caught it all and we here in the home, certainly had a chuckle.
We know that you will all of had a chuckle at this too!
Word Game Wonders...
The residents here at Kings Park, love nothing more than an afternoon get together over a word game and this recently, that's exactly what they did...
The heat was on as they individually battled it out to gain the Kings Park Scrabble Champion and there was a lot of pondering faces amongst everyone as they weighed up their options on the Scrabble board.
WHO WAS THE WINNER?!' We hear you cry!
Well we are very pleased to announce that this week, it was the lovely, Christine.
Congratulations Christine...But can you take the title next time and do the DOUBLE?
We shall see!
Congratulations Abbie!
We recently celebrated a very chocolately win with one young, local community member...
You may recall our recent Barchester Bunny hunt, where our residents joined forces with local shops and businesses, hiding numbered bunnies for local children to try and find in the run up to Easter.
We had a LOT of keen bunny hunters this year, who we would like to thank for taking part. We hope you had lots of fun trying to find all the bunnies?
But, there can only be one overall winner and with all the entry forms handed in, all the names were placed into a hat and a name drawn for the big prize.
We are now very excited to announce that the overall Barchester Bunny Hunt winner for 2024 is... [DRUM ROLL PLEASE]: -
ABBIE!
HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to you, Abbie, and all at Kings Park would like to thank you for taking part and we hope very much that you enjoyed your prize!
A special thank you to Abbie and her family for allowing us to share this lovely photo of her collecting her prize.
Strictly Ain't Got Nothing on us!
Residents here at Kings Park recently enjoyed another visit from the ever popular Andy Hague on his wonderful accordion...
Everyone gathered up in our lovely spacious Memory Lane lounge for another musically spectacular afternoon, and it wasn't long before soon everyone was up and in the mood for dancing!
BBC Strictly Come Dancing, should you be in need for some new participants for your next series, then look no further, as we would love to get involved - Everyone here at Kings Park loves to move and shake and they always do us proud - We're just saying...
Thank you again, Andy, for another wonderful afternoon full of fun and joy here in our home.
