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
Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside...
Some of our residents ventured out on the minibus recently for a delightful trip to see the sea...
It might be the middle of winter, however that didn't deter our intrepid explorers as they set off for an afternoon outing to see the ocean blue!
First on the agenda was lovely drive around Holes Bay, before heading over to Sands Banks for parking up near to Rick Steins' restaurant, whilst enjoying a yummy ice-cream in the warm of the minibus looking out across the bay.
It was a lovely opportunity to get out of the home and enjoy the local scenery.
Come on and do the Conga!
We recently mentioned what we got up whilst we were waiting for our shortbread to bake in the oven, whiling away the time with some music and singing, but that's not all we got up to...
One of our wonderful residents, Denise, took it upon herself to start a conga line, and who are we to say no to a conga?!
Much to everyone's amusement we danced our way around the dining room, kicking our legs as we went. Talk about an impromptu dancing session!
Suffice to say, that everyone really enjoyed their afternoon, which was then finished off by sampling some of the delicious shortbread we had baked - Yum!
Short'nin' Bread
Mama's little baby loves short'nin', short'nin',
Mama's little baby loves short'nin' bread,
Mama's little baby loves short'nin', short'nin',
Mama's little baby loves short'nin' bread.
Residents recently came together for an afternoon of music and baking up on our Memory Lane floor, as they all helped to bake some yummy shortbread to have with our afternoon tea.
Everyone mucked in to help with weighing, measuring and stirring the ingredients, before finally it was placed in a baking tray to cook.
The end result was a delicious warm shortbread sprinkled with sugar, which was enjoyed by residents, visitors and staff in our home.
Whilst the shortbread was baking, there was even some musical tunes from the musical Oliver; Food, Glorious Food, then a rendition of Tea for Two, Two for Tea, Banana Boat Song by Harry Belafonte and of course, Short'nin' Bread, plus many more food & drink related tunes were played and sang along to.
We made the Press!
Take a look at our coverage on the FRONT PAGE of The New Stour & Avon Magazine!
Read here how we celebrated Elvis' birthday earlier on in January: -
Issues | The New Stour And Avon Magazine | In Print & Online (stouravonmagazine.co.uk)
Edition 73
Arms in the air, like you just don't care!
Guess who was spotted in one of our exercise sessions recently?
Every week here at Kings Park, the residents are encouraged to join in with one of the many on demand exercise classes provided to us by the wonderful Oomph Wellness, which helps to keep the residents moving, being fitter and stronger for longer...
And who did we spy joining in with one of their sessions? Only our lovely Senior General Manager, Jenna, that's who!
Go, Jenna! Show them how it's all done!
'Up two, three, four, down, two, three, four...'
If you happen to be in the home next time we have one of our exercise sessions, the you also can come along and join in - You would be most welcome!
Out & About...
Here at Barchester Healthcare's Kings Park, we like to enable our residents to still do all the lovely day to day things that they would usually do before moving into our care...
Getting out and about in our community is very important to some of our residents, so recently, when the lovely Eric asked if he could pop to Tesco in Ferndown for a a few bits, that's exactly what we enabled him to do!
Off he went in the company of our lovely Activities Lead, Claudia, and enjoyed a mosey around the supermarket for a few bits he wanted, before strolling back to the home.
It's these simple things that often mean the most and what they get the most pleasure from, so if we can do these things for our residents, then we absolutely will!
