Activities at The Warren Care Home
Here at The Warren, our activities team are always very busy thinking of new ways to keep residents active, both physically and mentally. We have regular trips out in the minibus, both locally and further a field, including the London Eye and the Thames River Trip), at least once a week during the summer months. We also enjoy visits from PAT dogs and have professional exercise sessions and live entertainment, which are always popular.
Kirstie Tifrani
My name is Kirstie and I am lucky enough to be the Activities Coordinator here at The Warren.
I have many years of experience working in care homes in Activities and leisure and lifestyle roles.
I love being part of The Warren team and supporting our residents to live their best lives with fun, interesting, and varied activities available every week. I always feel that the importance of residents' input into our weekly planner is important giving all residents equal opportunity to explore new interests as well as keeping up with previous interests and hobbies.
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 Warren Care Home
Australia Day
Our favourite this month has to have been Australia day; we have many residents with relatives in Australia, so this fitted quite well.
We decorated the lounge, and our first activity was Aboriginal art. We learnt the symbols they use, the techniques they use and we had some fun making this artwork. They will go on to be used to decorate our visiting suite too as well as some art work from our Sprowston community also.
In the afternoon, we had some live, on-screen entertainment from Rob Thompsett; he played all their favourites, read out personal messages from loved ones and played requests. They all had a fantastic time, and a few of us got up and did the Lambeth Walk too.
The end of the day was completed with our Australia quiz. There were fun Australia facts, and the winner of the quiz went on to play the box challenge and take the bush tucker trial. They had to guess what was in the box, and if they got it correct, they go on to try the food. They tried gummy snakes, 'chocolate' mice and fried seaweed. Our winner guessed them all and tried them all too.
Cuddly Cavies
This was such a great session. Some of our residents are less mobile, so taking a little living creature to cuddle was just what the doctor ordered. They were brushed, cuddled, fed treats and they were such good company too! Thank you to Cuddly Cavies for letting us have 4 of your loveliest animals.
National Elf Day
We had an Elf Day on 4th December for charity. The staff dressed up as elves; the residents though we had all gone a little crazy, but joined in the fun. It was a great day!
Christmas Crafts
We were kindly donated a lot of Norwegian for off cuts from the local garden centre, which we made into a beautiful wreath for our front door.
The ladies had a wonderful time making this, lots of ideas for the design, lots of laughs around the table and generally a lovely afternoon. Well done, ladies, we think the wreath looks amazing.
Creative Drawing Session
Recently, we tried something new to us all, we are not all artists, but we gave it a go and had some fun with it. We all had a laugh about how some of the drawings turned out but all in all its was a great morning. Our resident artist, Betty, made a stunning job of hers.
Remembrance Sunday
We had such a lovely few days preparing and celebrating Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day. Staff and residents handmade over 40 individual poppies which decorated the home as well as decorating our fantastic tree of remembrance. Residents wrote a name of a loved one and hung it on the tree which was strewn with poppies.
We also made a large poppy which was the main decoration in the lounge and watched a service from St Cuthbert’s, and then the attendance at the Cenotaph from London. We ended the morning with a loyal toast and listened to the Navel Hymn.
