Activities at St Thomas Care Home
Our activities coordinator is dedicated to organising meaningful activities on an individual and group basis to fulfill the daily needs of our residents, as we understand how important mental and physical stimulation is for their wellbeing. Our activities are available to everyone who wants to take part and there is something different going on everyday. We often go out on day trips including visiting shopping centres, garden centres, evening meals at the local pubs, visits to local schools and also coffee mornings with other care homes. We have a wide range of entertainers that visit us at our home including musical therapists, Millers Ark Farm, pantomimes as well as our local salvation army and lots more. We encourage families to join us on trips out and also in home activities such as baking, arts and crafts, dancing and singing, we believe this is a great way for our residents to live an active and fun life here with us at St Thomas.
Teresa Humphreys
Hello. My name is Teresa. I am the Dementia Champion here at St. Thomas Care Home
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 St Thomas Care Home
Residents visit V&A Dundee from their armchairs!
As part of our continued partnership with V&A Dundee residents enjoyed a "Creating V&A Dundee" virtual talk by Peter Nurick, the Museum’s Communities Producer with refreshments and delicious homemade cakes.
Everyone at the home had the opportunity to discover the fascinating story behind the origins of V&A Dundee – Scotland’s design museum and the latest addition to the country’s list of instantly recognisable buildings.
They heard how the history of the city and site inspired the architect to draw from a range of unusual sources to create a thoroughly modern museum that is as intriguing as it is complex. The presentation showed incredible images of the entire design and construction process – from initial concept to opening celebration – as well as sharing a few of the building’s lesser-known secrets! It was a testament to the skills and creativity of all of those who brought the museum to life.
Easter colouring for our local preschool
We visited Alphabet City Preschool with Easter cards for the children to colour in and take home, from the pictures you can see how much fun they had
St Thomas are the winners in the Big Barchester Easter Quiz!
We got ready for Easter by joining a virtual afternoon of chocolate-fuelled fun along with the staff and residents at over seventy Barchester care homes across the south of England, Jersey and the Isle of Wight and much to everyone’s delight we won!
Our staff and residents put on their best Easter bonnets and broke out the Easter eggs for an afternoon of fun activities culminating in the Barchester Big Easter Quiz when they linked up with all the other Barchester homes in the south of the country. When they weren’t quizzing, residents enjoyed a feast of seasonal Easter dishes prepared by the home’s chef.
General Manager, Fatmata Cochrane said: “Now that we’re starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel following what has been a year like no other for our residents and staff, we wanted to ensure our Easter celebrations were an extra special treat. ‘Meeting up’ with the other homes virtually has given everyone such a boost, we’re so grateful to our brilliant Managing Director, Natasha Lazovic, for organising this event and for all her support. We’ve all had so much fun letting our hair down, everyone really enjoyed the afternoon.”
Our residents will be the Judges!
We are running a photography competition on our Facebook page for spring nature themed photos which residents will judge and announce the winner on 7th May, please email your entry to us at stthomas@barchester.com, there is a lovely prize for the winner!
We are on Facebook!
We are delighted our Facebook page, @Barchesterstthomas is now up and running with regular posts about upcoming events and life in our home photos, take a look now!
Indoor visiting starts at St Thomas's!
For residents at St Thomas care home the long awaited reunion with one family member has become a reality, as one single named visitor is now allowed to visit each resident in their bedroom.
Madge a resident at St Thomas, was delighted to see her daughter, Doreen, on Mother’s Day. Doreen commented: “I have just had a bedroom visit with my mum, we’ve had a lovely time and even done a Zoom call to America. It was so nice to get close to her and I can go home contented.”
General Manager, Fatmata Cochrane said: “We’ve all had a really lovely day. This is the first cautious step towards having a buzz of visitors in the home again. It was wonderful to see how happy it made the residents and their relatives. We have a great booking system in place to ensure the visits are well organised, and visitors are doing a great job of following the safety measures to keep everyone as safe as possible. For those that are not able to come inside the home we are pleased to be able to continue to offer visits in our visiting suites, as well as video calls.”
