Activities at The Dales Care Home
We understand that the people we support have passions and interests that could be difficult to pursue after moving into a care home – but that doesn’t mean we don’t encourage them to try! Some hobbies can define a person, so our Activities Coordinators are dedicated to ensuring that everyone we support is able to do what makes them happy to the best of their abilities. Social events are organised with individual tastes in mind and with the idea that residents have the opportunity to try new and exciting things.
Kay Thompson
Hi, my name is Kay and I am the activities coordinator here at the Dales. I joined the team in June 2021 and I love spending time with the residents each day, delivering meaningful activities that keep our residents active and social stimulated, more importantly we have fun! Our life enrichment programme is varied and we have lots to do!
Before I joined the home I was a lecturer teaching young individuals with high needs, it is very different being an activities coordinator but it does help with understand how to ensure everyone is happy each and every day in everything that we do.
I look forward to meeting you when you visit our home.
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 The Dales Care Home
The magic music afternoon with Terry!
Music is a magic medicine! Very cold outside snow and ice but the sun was shining inside and out! Everyone singing along with a little bit of seat dancing.
Terry have been coming along and singing for everyone for a long time now, no-one ever forgets him and remember the songs he sings. Wonderful having everyone fully enjoy and join in, always ready for a cup of tea and a slice of cake after. We are looking forward to next time already.
10 pin bowling
A great day yesterday with our 10 pin bowling! Lots of strikes first time, high scores and a good competition! We are looking forward to going to somewhere near by to do some actual 10 pin bowling, so yesterday was like a warm up.
Everyone fully enjoyed the 50s music being played while we were bowling and we did a bit of singing and dancing too. We were all ready for a warm drink and a slice of cake after!
'Tis the season to be jolly
Barchester’s The Dales care home, in Draughton, got in the Christmas spirit by inviting Kettlewell Primary School to come along and sing for our residents and staff.
The Dales Christmas celebration was in full swing with a visit from Kettlewell Primary School. Young ones from the age of 4-10 came along to sing Christmas carols and read some wonderful Christmas stories to our residents and staff.
After the morning, we carried on with the Christmas celebration having Richard and Honey with us, with Richard playing his guitar and singing our favourite Christmas songs. To finish we had Honey the cockapoo showing off her magical talent. A wonderful day celebrating Christmas and more wonderful Christmas parties this week.
Christmas Jumper Day
A fun morning on our Christmas jumper day, playing games and watching a classic film! The games we played were reindeer antlers game, snowman darts and magnetic darts, we all had a warm up to see how we could do, we didn’t do too bag so ready for the game competition soon.
The classic movie we watched was How the Grinch Stole Christmas, loved by everyone and have chosen our next Christmas movie for the big screen! Roll on our cinema morning!
Northern Dance Centre
What an amazing afternoon here at The Dales! Wonderful having the Northern Dance Centre, Skipton with us and sharing their spectacular talent of singing Christmas songs and dancing with amazing moves! We really do have the Christmas feeling now.
Loved by everyone and we can’t thank them enough for coming, the smiles and happiness of everyone can be felt as you walk in the door!
Gingerbread House Day
Staff and residents at Barchester’s The Dales care home in Draughton love any excuse to get creative so when they found out it was Gingerbread House Day on December 12, they didn’t need any persuading to get cracking!
The staff and residents put together some ready-made gingerbread shapes using some icing, we then did some decorating with more icing, dolly mixture, candy canes and edible glitter to make some of the glitziest gingerbread houses in town.
Kathleen Postil, a resident said: “I haven’t made a ginger bread house before! The houses look really lovely, what a fun way to spend a morning, the staff here are fantastic, always thinking of creative ways to keep us busy.”
