Activities at Bluebell Park Care Home
Here at Bluebell Park our aim is to enrich the lives of our residents, through group, and individual activities.
We have a wide range of activities designed to mentally, and physically stimulate the people we care for, including regular trips out in the mini bus, and taking part in the community led events that happen in the village we live in. We hold monthly resident meetings so our planning reflects their wishes, and requests, for example we now hold a regular bingo club (which residents families love to attend) and a bowling afternoon which the gentlemen here particularly enjoy. Entertainers and musicians regularly come into the home and families and friends are always welcome to attend too.
Activities are one of the most important aspects of our care home, and we strive to have a full range on offer. Our team here at Bluebell are dedicated to ensuring our residents enjoy, and get as much out of our entertainment as possible. It is without a doubt our mission is to make sure that life at Bluebell is active, fun, and most of all happy.
Leanne Lowe
Hello. My name is Leanne Lowe and I am the Activity Coordinator for Bluebell Park.
I have worked for Barchester for 6 years as a Carer and I have now made the move to Activities.
During my time here I have built lovely friendships and knowledge of our residents . I aim to offer a range of varied and tailored activities and group sessions that are meaningful to each of our residents. I am thrilled to be supporting the whole team at Bluebell Park in delivering fun, engaging and interesting activities for our residents. We also have a minibus which is used weekly to take residents out to cafes, local beauty spots and day trips.
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 Bluebell Park Care Home
D-Day Dollies
Bluebell Park welcomed one of the most popular singing groups into our home in November.
“The D-Day Dollies” - from the King’s Coronation to VE-Day, we enjoyed war time songs everyone could identify with.
The roof was raised not only by the Dollies but by our residents.
Clapping and singing at the top of their voices. As you can see from the pictures, the smiles and enthusiastic energy they brought to everyone.
Including songs from Judy Garland, Andrew Sister and of course, Dame Vera Lynn plus many more vintage and classic songs of an amazing generation.
The 1940’s are sure to put a spring in anyone’s step and a song in their hearts.
Every Hand tells a Story
On this one special day in November, our wonderful residents here at Bluebell Park, had more than a hand in a certain activity.
They have so much to tell and love telling it.
Every resident has their own exciting life tales to tell and one of the most interesting ways is a hand study. The way people hold their hands, the lines and injuries and the soft or coarseness of the skin.
Our residents are so precious not only to us but more so to their families and friends.
As it is said “the eyes are the windows to our souls,” well when you hold a loved one's hands, you can see, feel and imagine the life they have had.
Our residents and their families were so happy to join in with this activity and as you can tell, we had a lot of interest.
Planting a Tree of Rememberance
One Cold day in November after the first snow fall of the year, in National Tree Week, we planted an Olive Tree in our remembrance garden.
Before we ventured out in to the cold weather, we sat in our lovely warm lounge and chatted with each other over hot chocolate remembering the friends and family we knew and friends and family we have lost.
With jumpers, thick winter coats, gloves and fancy hats we eventually ventured into our winter garden.
Covered with colourful leaves from our many beautiful trees, we planted our Olive Tree.
The wind howled and the rain fell and our faces contorted with the cold but we still managed to smile and enjoy our small but very personal occasion.
Christmas Party
We spent the afternoon having a Christmas Party it was a fantastic afternoon. Light festive refreshments with some festive drinks along with some Christmas games, quiz, carols, and dancing. It was a fantastic afternoon enjoyed by many residents and families to. There was lots of lovely bright smiles throughout the afternoon everybody who participated really enjoyed themselves. Overall it a lovely afternoon we plan to do something like this again in the new year.
Chellaston Academy Performance
We had the pleasure of welcoming our local senior School, Chellaston Academy into the home. They come well and truly prepared for their fantastic performance. Many of residents come down from different floors to watch the children perform. They sang a selection of Christmas Carols the residents and staff got involved. Overall it was a lovely morning enjoyed by many, some of the residents said they would love to welcome Chellaston Academy into the home again for another performance. We hope to do this again in the future.
101st Birthday Celebrations
We celebrated a very special ladies 101st Birthday. We sectioned off part of an area and decorated it with balloons, banners, flowers and gifts ready for her family to arrive. They had their own very special Tea Party were they brought more gifts and treats for her. Overall it was a lovely day Jane really enjoyed herself she was very overwhelmed and pleased with the effort we had made. Her family was thoroughly pleased with the outcome of the day. Overall it was a lovely fun filled day enjoyed by many and One to remember.
