Activities at Kings Park Care Home

Recently, the sky may have been gloomy all the clouds all grey, but there was one lovely fellow who made our day...

A MASSIVE THANK YOU To the wonderful Arsenio from Freitas Ices, who literally made everyone's day here at Kings Park!

Arsenio came along to see us all in his amazing ice cream van and EVERYONE enjoyed some rather huge ice creams, leaving even bigger smiles on everyone's faces here in the home!

Residents from all over the home came outside to get themselves and their friends, a delicious whippy style ice cream with flakes (of course!), and everyone was absolutely thrilled by this.

Senior General Manager, Jenna May, was also on hand check on quality control and ensure the ice cream was up to our exacting standards, which we are more than happy to report, it was! (It's a tough job, but somebody had to do it!)

Thank you, Arsenio, for stopping off to see us all - The residents and staff thoroughly enjoyed your delicious ice cream and we hope to have you back again very soon!

Residents and staff had all recently commented on what a fantastic asset the lovely Jake is to the home, so we felt he needed a little recognition for all his efforts!

Jake is wonderful with all of our residents and works so hard to keep them all happy in his role as host, ensuring that everyone is well fed at mealtimes, ensuring they have all they want from the tea trolley and he is great at raising a smile on the residents faces. 

About to embark on learning to drive, Jake already has a car for when he passes his test, so we wanted to acknowledge that by getting him something motor related as a special gift...

So recently, our Senior General Manager, Jenna, presented Jake with a car cleaning kit as a thank you for all he does at Kings Park.

WELL DONE JAKE!

We recently welcomed the fabulous Fretworks: Neil Wookey - Guitarist, into our home for a wonderful afternoon of live music...

Neil was fantastic and played some wonderful, familiar songs from yesteryear to entertain the Kings Park residents.

Everybody loved having some live music in their home and thoroughly enjoyed his performance, chatting about it long after he had left the building!

It's amazing how much music can bring people together, as well as spreading so much joy amongst everyone.

THANK YOU, Neil, for a fabulous time - We home to see you again very soon.

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.

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...

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.