Activities at The Fernes Care Home
At The Fernes we endeavour to make our care as personal as possible, including when it comes to activities. We will give you a 'Getting to Know Me' booklet for you to fill out with your loved one before they arrive, which includes a little life history and a tick sheet for a vast amount of activities. This enables us to offer the activities we know they will enjoy and enables us to learn valuable information about their lives and what might stimulate them in conversations and trips.
Our specialist Activities and Lifestyle staff make sure there are always meaningful activities to take part in, such as helping in the garden, baking some bread to have with our dinner, and trips out to various locations nearby such as the beach and the garden centres. Residents are encouraged to take part, but it is always the resident’s choice to participate or not as we believe that having choice is very important to help our residents feel in control of their lives. There are activities on offer every day (and night for those night owls) in the form of word puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, arts and crafts, needle crafts and board games to name a few. We have entertainment that is organised at least twice a month such as Music for Health, Zoolab or musicians, and also have a wonderful Yoga instructor who comes every other week.
Activities are provided by everyone in our home from carers and specialised activities staff, right through to our admin team. If there is a task that needs doing and a resident would like to do it, such as sealing envelopes and putting stamps on or handing out popcorn for our Movie Mondays, they are very welcome to help out which enables us to give them a better feeling of purpose and self-worth.
We are a registered member of the National Activity Providers Association (NAPA), which means that we are always working to make the quality of life of all of our residents as high as possible by working with person-centred activities that aim to stimulate our residents, both mentally and physically.
Sophie Wasteney
Hi, I'm Sophie, I am the Activities Lead at The Fernes. I've worked in the care sector for 26 years and here at The Fernes for 3 of those. When I started here I worked in care so really got to know the residents, relatives and home very well. When the Activities Lead role arose I naturally jumped at the opportunity as it was one aspect of care I really wanted to do as I really enjoy making people happy. As you cannot put a price on a smile!
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 The Fernes Care Home
World Family Day
To celebrate this day all our residents had family to join our (should have been) garden bbq, we were joined by the amazing stokes bay strummers who performed for all our guests. We loved having all the families back in and having fun together.
Dementia Action Week
Meet our dementia champions Myra and Hayley who did a week long competition blue against red running dementia friendly carnival games. Our designated Memory lane loved all the fun and games throughout the week.
World Bee Day
We enjoyed a visit from Ashworth Honey learning all about the bee process of making bee’s wax and honey and even getting to try some of their delicious produce.
Pancake Day
Everyone tried their hand at designing their own pancakes, some went for a traditional lemon and sugar and others went off on their own path with a bit of everything. Our chef even soaked some raisins in whiskey for a bit of a kick and they went down a treat!
Mini Bus to Port Solent
We enjoyed a day out walking around the lovely Port Solent looking at the boats and finishing off with a trip to a local tea rooms; Gracie Ann’s for a cup of tea and cake, sounds like a perfect day out for all of us!
St Patrick's Day
Our residents loved being Irish for the day with some traditional food, some Irish dancing and a fresh cocktail of the day with Irish whiskey, ginger beer, lime and mint. Yummy!
