Tewkesbury FieldsBarchester Healthcare

Activities at Tewkesbury Fields Care Home

Name: Tewkesbury Fields Care Home
Address: The Oxhey, Tewkesbury, Gloucester, GL20 6HP, GB
Telephone: 01684 880133

Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.

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.

Read our brochure ‘Life-enriching activities’ for more information about life in our care homes.

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Paula Lourenco

Activities Coordinator

Hello, my name is Paula and I’m the Activities coordinator at Tewkesbury Fields care home. I’ve joined Barchester healthcare in 2020.

As part of the lifestyle enrichment team, I will be organising daily activities, ensuring that residents have varied activities to choose from each day. I love enriching our residents’ lives, creating memories and be able to provide meaningful activities to each one of the residents living at Tewkesbury fields.

Celebrating life at Tewkesbury Fields Care Home

Mad Hatters Tea Party

Residents, staff and relatives stepped into Wonderland and had a whimsical time with a delightful Mad Hatter's Tea party.

We've welcomed Headteacher, Sarah and Year 2 children from Eldersfield Primary school to the party, where we got to enjoy delicious cakes, shared stories, read some books and even dressed our maddest hats and wore bright colours!

Overall, we had a fantastic intergenerational social time together and it really was a magical morning.

Visit to Alderman Knight School

We have had a fantastic time at Alderman Knight School.

A few weeks ago, residents completed a "teenager memories questionnaire" which was created by the 15 years old about life as a teenager in their time, where they could gather some information to compare to today's lifestyle.

We were invited to spend time with the students, tasted their delicious baked cakes, played games together and there was lots of conversations and stories shared between students and residents.

We all had a great afternoon.

Community Scrabble Club

During this month's scrabble club, we were delighted to welcome residents and staff from our sister home Ashchurch View Care Home - Barchester Healthcare.

It was a fantastic way of socialising, continue the resident's hobbies and meeting new friends whilst playing on a healthy competition.

Thank you for joining us, our residents are looking forward to welcoming you back

Flower Club

A group of our lovely ladies, have recently enjoyed creating flower arrangements for around the home.

This is such a relaxing activity, bringing friends together to chat whilst they embrace their flair and passion for floral designs.

Flower arranging can bring many benefits to wellbeing, including reducing stress, encouraging relaxation, stimulating memories, and giving a sense of purpose and achievement.

It also offers a lovely opportunity for social connection.

Cuddles with Silkies

Residents and staff were overwhelmed when they got a surprise visit from 8 week old Silkie's.

A local member of the community very kindly visited us with the beautiful birds. Everyone got a cuddle and we all wanted to keep them.

Thank you so much to Julie and her daughter for thinking of us

Retail Therapy

Who doesn't like going for a little bit of retail therapy or just simply going for a wander around the town.

This week, some of the ladies enjoyed shopping at Boots and Edinburgh Woolen Mill in Tewkesbury High Street, where they purchased a few clothes and beauty products.

Just before we returned to the home, we also had a quick look a the river in the Back of Avon area and appreciated how beautiful the flower planters look for the summer time.

106th Birthday Celebrations

Celebrations have been in full swing at Barchester Tewkesbury Fields, as one of the residents reaches her 106th Birthday in style. Marion Ralls was joined by staff, relatives, friends and other residents as she received her 5th card from King Charles II after receiving two from his late mother Queen Elizabeth II in previous years in recognition of her 106th birthday. A champagne reception was held at the home and guests enjoyed a special birthday cake made by the home’s chef Mihai The birthday girl, said: “The secret to a long life is, just living carefully, a few gin and tonics and a dry sherry”. When asked about how she feels becoming 106 “She said “Well, it just happened I didn’t plan it, I am just living my life”.

Visit to Sherdon's Golf Centre

We continue to support residents with their hobbies and interests and this afternoon we visited Sherdon's Golf Centre.

We had a fabulous relaxing afternoon at the centre. Residents were able to test their skills at putting. The view from the coffee shop was stunning and residents enjoyed a very relaxing afternoon.

Visit To Hayles Fruit Farm

This week we visited Hayles Fruit Farm.

One of our residents' enchanting family-owned business located on the outskirts of the Cotswold market town of Winchcombe, in the heart of Glocestershire, with plenty on offer for the whole family.

We were very kindly offered to taste their produced delicious apple and mango and apple juices; we enjoyed purchasing a few items from the shop and then took pleasure of a delicious cuppa of tea/coffee outdoors looking out at the beautiful views!

We couldn't have asked for a better day, the weather was perfect for such a great experience with a wonderful family.

Crafting Club

Ladies at Tewkesbury Fields Care Home - Barchester Healthcare enjoy socialising and crafting.

This afternoon our residents started to make bunting for our Summer Fete on 28th June.

The ladies enjoyed bringing their own skills and creativity and reminiscing how embroidery, sewing, tapestry and dressmaking was a big part of their lives.

Obviously laughter filled the lounge, as we listened to stories that were memorable to our residents

A stroll around Victoria Gardens in Tewkesbury

We are so fortunate at Tewkesbury Fields to have beautiful place of nature to visit on our doorstep.

We've enjoyed visiting the Victoria Gardens in Tewkesbury this week.

Such a tranquil riverside park, full of beautiful flowers and a green setting for a nice walk and sitting to enjoy a relaxed afternoon.

Celebrating Success - Dementia Champion

This week we wanted to celebrate Rosa, one our Dementia Champions for recently winning a hamper at the Dementia Champions training course as she achieved the highest score during a quiz.

Rosa and other Dementia Champions attended a day's course where they had the opportunity to enhance and gain more knowledge about Dementia with the aim to support and provide the best and highest standards to the residents who live at Tewkesbury Fields.

Scotch Whiskey Experience

We joined other 200 Barchester Healthcare homes for a Virtual Live event "Scotch Whiskey experience".

We learnt about the history of distilling Whiskey in Scotland, the production process, and the regional characteristics of a single malt.

It was great to have a small glass and bring the event to life!

Community Afternoon Tea

Community Afternoon Tea.

Tewkesbury Fields invited members of the community to an afternoon tea, with a wonderful selection of baked treats and of course lots of pots of tea.

Refusing to pick a side in the controversial debate of cream before jam for the Cornish tradition or jam before cream as part of the Devonshire tradition.

It was a lovely afternoon and enjoyed by all

Visit from John Moore Musuem

This week we've welcomed wonderful team members from The John Moore Museum, who delivered another interesting talk on historical items from the Tudors time.

Angela brought some artefacts from the Museum today, which the residents enjoyed talking and learning more about.

We also shared and talked about some of our crafts talents with each other; Angela brought one of the fantastic pieces of artwork done by one of the volunteers at the Museum, and one of our residents shared her embroidery skills with everyone by showing some of her work.