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
Celebrating Earth Day
Recently at Kings Park, we acknowledged Earth Day here in our home.
'What is Earth Day?', we hear you cry...
'Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EARTHDAY.ORG (formerly Earth Day Network)[1] including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries.'
[SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA.COM]
Not to be left out, here at Kings Park we celebrated Earth Day by getting some of our residents involved with doing something lovely for our garden environment here at Kings Park.
Residents spent an afternoon painting their designs on some wonderful, colourful pots to go on display in our garden, then later in the week, they planted the pots up with some beautiful, vivid and vibrant plants to add the finishing touch, with added pops of colour!
Take a look at their bright & cheerful display which they helped to create.
Getting Creative...
Residents here at Kings Park had a wonderful afternoon getting arty recently, with a little help from a couple of friends...
Two more wonderful students from Ferndown Upper School came in for a lovely session of arts & crafts, where they got involved with helping the residents to paint some homemade trinket boxes, which they had made earlier on in the week out of papier-mâché.
The girls were wonderful with our residents and it became a real social affair as they got creative and colourful with their boxes.
These kind of intergenerational activities are truly a blessing and really benefit everyone and we know the residents are always happy to see new faces and get to know them.
Thank you Ferndown Upper for sending us such lovely individuals, they have done you proud!
Take a look at their creations in the attached photos...
All Puzzled Out!
One wonderful mother & daughter duo are celebrating a little win here in the home recently...
The very lovely, Pauline, along with her daughter Julie, have together been working very hard and for a long while, trying to complete a puzzle that they started together a little while back.
We are very happy to finally report that it's mission completed!
Well done to you both - Bask in the glory for a while before you start on the next one.
64 Incredible Years!!!
Recently at Kings Park we celebrated with one of our lovely couples...
The very lovely Richard & Naomi were honouring each other with 64 years of married bliss!
To celebrate this very wonderful occasion, our amazing Chef, Wyn, made a delicious cake for them both to enjoy and much to their delight and surprise.
Huge congratulations to you both and we hope you have many more wonderful years to come!
From everyone here at Kings Park - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to you both!
Back at the Scrabble...
Some of our Kings Park ladies gathered in the cafe area recently for another battle of Scrabble...
We certainly have some keen Scrabblers amongst our residents and the matches we host can often get very tense indeed as they see who will come out on top!
Thank you to the amazing, Emma, for hosting such a wonderful afternoon for the residents - They definitely enjoyed themselves.
Did you know...
That the word: oxyphenbutazone is worth a whopping 1778 points?
'Oxyphenbutazone is an anti-inflammatory drug and a recognized word in the Scrabble dictionary. It is theorized to be the highest scoring legal word that would actually fit on a Scrabble board. However, entire galaxies worth of stars would need to align in order to actually play this behemoth of a word in a game of Scrabble.'
[Source: Dictionary.com]
Good luck getting that one!
Pampered Hands...
We were delighted to welcome two lovely, young ladies into our midst recently...
Say 'hello' to two of the wonderful volunteers from Ferndown Upper School, who are regular faces here at Kings Park!
They come to us to gain knowledge and experience in the care sector and help our wonderful Activities team with lots of lovely group events and activities here in the home.
We are proud to have them join us for these wonderful sessions and our residents love to chat and get to know them.
On the cards this week, was a session of hand pampering, much to our resident's delight!
Take a look at how they got on...
Thank you girls, it's always a pleasure to have you in our home, making our residents smile!
