Activities at Crandon Springs Care Home
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.
Katherine Cork
Hello, my name is Kath and I’m the Activities Assistant here at Crandon Springs.
As part of the Activities and lifestyle enrichment team, I help in organising our daily activities, ensuring that all of our residents have a variety of activities to choose from each day. I love enriching our residents’ lives by providing meaningful and engaging activities and, having been both a teacher and care assistant in the past, have a wealth of experience behind me. You'll rarely find me without a smile and I'm very family orientated, and I love how both the residents' and colleagues Crandon Springs feel like a second family to me!
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 Crandon Springs Care Home
Pudding Club- February
Dive into the delightful world of cherries with our Pudding Club! this month
Not only do these juicy gems explode with sweetness, but they also pack a powerful punch when it comes to health benefits! Taste Profile: Bursting with flavour, cherries dance between sweet and tart, making them an irresistible addition to any dessert!
Medical Marvels: Did you know cherries can help reduce inflammation, improve sleep, and even support heart health?
Pudding Club celebrated these scrumptious, health-boosting fruits! With scrumptious and mouth-watering Black Forest Gateau, Cherry Pie, Almond & Cherry Slices.
All baked by our talented chefs .
Each month our residents choose a puddings of their choice , a family favourites, a delicacy from their culture, travels or they wish to try something new.
Our Chefs explore the options with our residents and then the delights are created by our Chefs.
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Chinese New Year Celebrations
Chinese New Year Celebrations. The Year of the Snake.
Celebrating Life together.
We have strength, resilience and wisdom in abundance.
Our memory Lane residents enjoyed the new year celebrations from tasting delicious food to crafting beautiful paper lanterns. A vibrant day with laughter, stories and spirit of togetherness.
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For more information please contact Megan Cleal, General Manager at Crandon Springs on 01749 301946 , or email megan.cleal @barchester.com
LOVE PAST AND PRESENT- VALENTINE’S WEEK CELEBRATIONS
We have embraced Love, past and present this week.
We created a Valentines Trail through beautiful and historic Wells. 12 single red roses were left in carefully selected venues. To be found by the local community who were then invited in to meet our residents and collect an indulgent gift.
Clues were posted on Facebook and all the roses were collected by members of the public. There were some heart-warming stories, A 12-year girl called Emily found a rose in Waterstones book store whilst on a school trip from Sedgemoor Manor school in Highbridge.
Another little boy found a rose after his swimming lesson at the local leisure centre he was delighted his first ever rose.
We would like to thank Bishops Palace, Wells Cathedral, The Old Deanery, Costa Coffee, The Town Hall, The Swan Hotel, Priory Health Centre, Wells Library, Waterstones Book shop for taking part in the Valentines Trail. It was enormous fun and our residents really enjoyed meeting all the winners.
The residents have also enjoyed Valentine’s Day themed Origami, painting and music this week.
On Valentine’s Day it self we started the day with a delicious breakfast accompanied with strawberries prosecco and bucks fizz.
The highlight being a Valentines Ball to celebrate love past and present in the evening with ballroom dancers Terry and Jenny.
General Manager, Meg Cleal, said: “We’ve all had a lovely week decorating the home and making gifts for each other and for our loved ones. Lots of our residents were able to see their loved ones either in person or via video call. We’ve had a whole range of treats and Valentine’s themed fun and we have enjoyed every moment of it!”
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For more information please contact Megan Cleal, General Manager at Crandon Springs on 01749 301946 , or email megan.cleal @barchester.com
Burns Night Celebrartions
We Celebrated Burns Night across two days Friday 24th and Saturday 25th January Michael Angus Music Therapist played and sang Traditional Scottish songs and Ballard’s Friday morning and the fun continued well into the afternoon and evening with a Scottish Themed sing along in the afternoon and a Robert Burns Poetry recital after supper with a wee dram.
Saturday was a tartan whirlwind of fun, a Burn Night quiz in the morning followed by a Scottish themed supper with haggis, neeps and tatties.
Staff and residents at the home enjoyed Celebrating the Scottish traditions old and new including giving the time-honoured address to the ‘Great chieftain O’ the pudding race’ – the haggis.
General Manager, Megan Cleal, at Crandon Springs, thought it was a perfect occasion to celebrate an evening steeped in age-old tradition as well as getting in a spot of Scotch whisky tasting, reading a selection of Burns’ poems and dancing with Tipsy Laird for dessert.
She said: “Burns Night is always a fantastic event at Crandon Springs, it’s so important to continue these traditions. Our residents enjoyed a hearty meal of Scotch broth, Haggis with neeps and tatties all prepared by our stellar Chef Stuart Constable. We also had great fun discovering how much, or is some cases how little(!), we knew about Scotland with our brilliant Scottish quiz.”
Josie, resident of Crandon Springs said: “I enjoyed reading the Robbie Burns poetry his use of simple language to convey a heartfelt message and dashing good looks are something I would have left home for as a young lass. The whiskey tasting was lovely too. Burns Night is always a brilliant night here.”
Especially with my fellow residents who have Scottish connections we represent the highlands, lowlands and Edinburgh.
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For more information regarding Crandon Springs please contact Megan Cleal General Manager at Crandon Springs on 01749 685 182, or email megan.cleal @barchester.com
Garwynn's Reptiles and Bugs come to Tea
Full of animal mischief when Garwynn’s Reptile and Bugs Handling (GRAB) Yeovil came for tea.
Residents were pleasantly surprised to see and handle a fantastic selection of snakes, spiders, reptiles, bugs and invertebrates some roaming around one of the lounges was quite an experience,
General Manager Megan Cleal said: “Our residents have really enjoyed their unusual visitors today. We knew that having these delightful creatures here would be a bit of fun for all our residents, especially as some find it difficult to go on many outings in our minibus. We are always looking for new activities for the residents and today we have seen the seen the enjoyment and the therapeutic influence animals can have on people.”
Resident Christine was very excited “As a child I used to love all insects and I especially liked handling the snakes cool body. Today was very enjoyable and a wonderful experience.
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For more information please contact Megan Cleal, General Manager at Crandon Springs on 01749 685 182 or megan.cleal@barchester.com
Lunch Trips to Middlewick Farm Shop and Glastonbury Tor
As part of our comprehensive activties programme we offer weekly trips out to visits places of interest, friends, colleagues in other care homes and attend local events.
The Middle wick Farm shop has become a popular lunch club destination. At the bottom the Glastonbury Tor is always something to feast the eyes on. Glastonbury provides a diverse and eclectic town to mooch around.
