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
Thank you to Our Wonderful Community
It's been lovely settling into the community and making such fantastic new neighbours.
Thank you very much to everyone at St. Mary's Ferndown for their Christmas Wishes to our residents and team!
Kings Park Carol Singing
An evening of canapés and carols was greatly enjoyed as residents chose their favourite carols for us all to sing, tucked into some lovely canapés our Chef prepared and sipped a glass of bubbly!
Chef turned a little red when the residents gave him and the kitchen team a round of applause for the delicious nibbles!
Even our Home Service Advisor’s dogs, Macy and Archy, came dressed for the evening to join in with the fun! We are all looking forward to a fabulous Christmas here at Kings Park with lots more festive fun and cheer to enjoy!
This isn’t just Fish & Chips….this is Kings Park Fish & Chips!
On today’s menu was a succulent Cod in Homemade Beer Batter with Triple Cooked Chips or softly Poached Hake with a Creamy Prawn Sauce.
As Nigella Lawson once said…”You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well!”
Thank you to our superb kitchen team Gary, James, Sue and Denise for todays scrumptious lunch
Feeling the Rhythm
It’s been a busy week at Kings Park but that didn’t stop residents tapping their hands and feet along to some lively music from Mark Bussell today!
Creature Comforts
We have had some extremely ‘VIP’ visitors today at Kings Park!
Jade from The Creature Teachers brought along some of her incredibly beautiful exotic pets and our residents loved meeting them and listening to all of Jade’s amazing knowledge about each one.
Our residents loved being close and personal with all of Jade’s animals and there were some very special moments.
Kings Park's First Ever Christmas Tree is UP!
We are delighted to be supporting, alongside our sister home Barchester Healthcare Moors Manor, St Martins URC, with their West Moors Christmas Tree Festival this week. The Church is open for the public to see the trees from 11am-5pm on Wednesday and Thursday 1st & 2nd December; 11am-9pm on Friday 3rd December and 11am-2pm on Saturday 4th December. Entry is free but all voluntary donations will go to Macmillan Caring Locally based at Christchurch Hospital and to the British Heart Foundation. If you can, pop down to see them!
