Activities at Crandon Springs Care Home
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!
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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
Employee of the month
Employee of the month!!!
We are incredibly pleased to announce that Caroline McNally is our employee of the month!! Caroline has also been successful in gaining promotion into our Care Community Lead. Please join me in congratulating Caroline as she steps up into a brand new role for the home.
We acknowledge Caroline’s compassionate commitment to caring and supporting our residents, during our last Covid outbreak, Caroline swapped her night hours and worked 5 day shifts to ensure the residents were safe and the team supported.
We are all incredibly proud!
Congratulations……….
Congratulations……….
We recently completed interview for the positions of Care Community Lead. We are incredibly pleased to announce that Caroline McNally have been successful in gaining promotion into this role. Please join me in congratulating Caroline as she steps up into a brand new role for the home. We are all incredibly proud.
ABOUT THE ROLE....
As a Community Lead within our Residential Care Homes at Barchester, you'll help to make our residents' lives stimulating and fulfilling so that we can deliver the person-centred care and support they deserve. Always focusing on respecting our residents' independence, privacy, dignity and choice, while leading and supervising our team of Carers and Senior Carers.
The role of Community Lead will involve some clinical responsibilities, including recording observations on weight and blood pressure, and carrying out simple wound dressing procedures. Across everything you do, you'll be a role model for your team and someone our residents and their families can trust to provide a safe, reassuring and happy environment. You will build key relationships within the home and externally.
💐🌷BLOOMING LOVELY🌷💐
💐🌷BLOOMING LOVELY🌷💐
It was a hive of activity and wonderful atmosphere at Crandon Springs this week!
In our lounge we had our local Vicar, followed by Jon’s pop up shoe and slipper shop.
The Cafe was a hive of activity and chatter as residents enjoyed a good old fashioned natter, really getting to know one another. Playing Dominoes, Crosswords, Cards and Bridge.
Activities, Co-ordinators, Claire and Helen, gathered some of our residents together and challenged them to come up with some beautiful, floral displays for our reception desk.
We think they did a fantastic job!
Hop to it. One thing’s for certain, 2023 will be Hopin Hopin’.
Hop to it. One thing’s for certain, 2023 will be Hopin Hopin’.
Here at Crandon Springs we celebrated the Chinese New Year. The Lunar New Year arrived on Sunday, January 22, 2023, bringing us into the Year of the Rabbit, specifically the Water Rabbit. How will the wet bunny bode?
Staff and residents all had fortune cookies and got find our animal sign.
The Chinese calendar has a six decade cycle defined by 12 earthly animal totems and the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal and water.
As in Western astrology, there are 12 signs within the Chinese zodiac, each represented by a different animal: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig, and each ruling a different set of years.
The Chinese zodiac is known as shengxiao, which translates to “born resembling,” based on the belief that people inherit the traits of the animal whose sign they fall under.
National Activity Providers and Professional Week!
Here at Crandon Springs we are very lucky to have a fabulous activity team who work tirelessly to improve the lives of the residents in our home.
This week is National Activity Providers and Professional Week and we would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to Claire, Helen and Mia for everything you do to ensure there is always something interesting happening within the home.
We all love the parties you plan, the crafts you create, the trips out we take and the inventive, novel ways you find to bring seasonal celebrations into the home.
As part of the week, our Activities Coordinators will been taking part in a whole host of events provided by NAPA, connecting and sharing ideas with teams across the country.
Special celebrations are also taking place at the home throughout the week with residents, friends and fellow colleagues.
Thank you!
Upcoming events
Cuppa with a Coppa
Join us for our cuppa with a copper event & ask PCSO Leann Chinnock any community questions, whilst enjoying a nice cuppa.
Summer Garden Party!
Please join us for a fun day, full of live entertainment, very special visitors the Quarter Pint Ponies and plenty of homemade food and refreshments!
