Activities at Cubbington Mill 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. The activities encourage interaction on a one to one basis, in small groups, in large groups and some are designed for the whole home including staff to be involved in.
We are registered with the National Activity Providers Association (NAPA) which ensures we are able to achieve and continually progress to enhance the quality of life for those we support in the home. We provide entertainers such as singers, musicians, magicians, puppeteers, poets and dancers. We also have regular exercise classes and arts and craft classes. Relatives and visitors will be able to see what me make in these classes on display around the home. We have regular trips out on the mini bus to visit garden centres, enjoy high tea, visit the butterfly farm and spend the day at the zoo with a picnic. We encourage the local community, schools, colleges and relatives to come and join us for activities, tea and cake and to visit to share their skills as much as possible.
Staff from across the home are always willing to help and share their knowledge and skills across a whole range of activities we have had everything from carers preforming Bollywood style dancing to cooking classes from the chef. We feel activities are a vital part of the residents lives to ensure they are stimulated mentally and entertained.
Rose Tucker
Hi my name is Rose and I am the activities coordinator at Cubbington Mill!
I have been working in care since I was 17 and very passionate about my role, always trying to do bigger & better. I am one of Cubbington Mills Dementia Champions. I'm very privileged to work with the wonderful people and residents at Barchester's Cubbington Mill and hope we all make some lovely memories together! I LOVE to find out about residents interests & hobbies through tools like the “Getting To Know Me Booklets”.
We are always open to new ideas. If you would like to get involved in any of our Life Enrichment activities or have a skill, or project you'd like to share with our residents, please click here to contact me direct. New entertainers and community links are always welcome.
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 Cubbington Mill Care Home
Cubbington Mill Celebrates 30 Years
On Friday we celebrated a fashionably late anniversary of the place we all call Home.
The party started with the extremely talented and lovely Annette from Creative Mojo Ltd. Residents painted a festive postbox showstopper.
We stopped for lunch followed by a performance from Dave Dixon with star of the show, Resident Deborah who was formerly an employee at Cubbington with members of staff who still work with us now!
We then couldn’t miss the opportunity to award Night Nurse Jay her 20 years service gifts!
To finish off the day we were fortunate enough to catch up over a cuppa with members of the treasured community, Princethorpe Sixth Form students, friends & relatives even our private physiotherapist Amy arrived on her day off! With the cheeky, fluffy and calm The Alpaca Pals.
Cheers for to the next 30 years & the team at Cubbington that made the day possible for all the residents to have fun and be involved.
Possibly Barchester’s biggest poppy?
Most definitely the oldest man within Barchester and Warwickshire. 2nd oldest man in the UK
Cheryl, (creator of the artwork), a resident at Cubbington Mill said: “It is very important that we keep the memories of those who fought alive and that we also think about those involved in conflicts around the world today, especially my hero my Dad, who was in the Navy!”
As well as marking Armistice Day by wearing poppies and observing the national two minute silence on Sunday, residents took part in therapeutic activities, such as making poppy displays, listening to old wartime songs, reading war poems and creating poppy window art.
Residents lend their ears to Live Music Performance
Activity Coordinator, Rose Tucker said, “Our residents and staff had a wonderful afternoon singing along with the wonderful performers from ‘mini concerts’. We do our best to provide a wide range of entertainment at Cubbington Mill as part of the lifestyle enrichment programme for residents, and this was one of our favourites!”
One resident said “I haven’t heard some of these songs in many years. The classics never go out of style! I hope the D-Day Dollies return soon.”
Our Gardens have been awarded Gold Status!
Staff and residents at Cubbington Mill care home in Cubbington are extremely proud that their garden has beaten all the competition to scoop the Gold award in the 2023 Leamington in Bloom competition, Businesses category. Judges from the Leamington in Bloom committee paid a surprise visit to the home’s garden and declared it the best of the best in the Businesses category.
General Manager, Laura Russell, said: “This is such a fantastic achievement, to be named the best garden in the whole of Leamington – everyone at the home is so proud. Our Head of Maintenance, Waldemar, and our volunteers work so hard on our beautiful garden, they always go the extra mile to ensure they have done the best possible job for our residents who love to sit in the garden in the warmer months and admire it throughout the year.”
Bewitching tricks and spooky treats
We got in to the Halloween spirit of things by decorating the home, creating decorations, icing spooky biscuits, going on a Halloween treasure hunt to win prizes with Sienna from The Positive Impact Foundation, holding a pumpkin carving competition, hosting a Halloween themed creepy Creative Mojo workshop alongside ghoulish treats, having a visit from the lollipop ponies accompanied by Halloween-themed songs, music and party games with local community, residents and staff.
A visit from Alpacas
Residents and staff at Cubbington Mill were pleasantly surprised to see their new furry friends roaming around their home as The Alpaca Pals paid a visit. Resident Charles was very excited by the Alpaca Pal’s animals: “As a child I used to love all the animals on the nearby farm. Today was very enjoyable and it was wonderful that the animals were free to roam amongst us.”
