Activities at Emily Jackson House 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.
Our activities team continues to offer a wide range of activities to both mentally and physically stimulate our residents. Our activities include one to one shopping, group outings in our minibus, and regularly attending our local church and bowling club. We also enjoy the entertainment from the musicians who come and visit us as well as our PAT dog. We have a range of activities so residents with all abilities and talents can join in activities and social gatherings. We encourage families and volunteers to share the joy with us by taking part in our social events as well.
Paula McGill
Hi, My name is Paula and I am the Lead Activities Coordinator here at Emily Jackson House. I absolutely love supporting our residents to take part in meaningful activities and delivering a person centred activity program.
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 Emily Jackson House Care Home
Favourite Dinner
Nothing is too much trouble for our chefs here at Emily Jackson House Care Home.
Ladies from our resident family were reminiscing about family dinners and discovered all of them loved liver and bacon.
Head chef Sofiane was only t0o happy to recreate this favourite dinner for them.
The ladies were full of compliments and very full!
Pub Lunch
We took the first of many trips out in our new minibus.
A popular trip out is for a nice pub lunch.
The gentlemen enjoyed their drinks and a delicious lunch of fish and chips. The residents also enjoy the social aspects of going out, such as sharing stories and meeting new people in the community.
.A good time was had by all.
Thank you to Rose and Crown, Dunton Green for your hospitality.
Rainbow Table
Resident Gareth took a break from watching the Six Nations to have a go at our fantastic new addition to the home - a Rainbow Table.
At Barchester, we are always looking for ways to improve our residents' quality of life. This is why we have introduced a Rainbow Table to many of our care homes - offering opportunities for those living with dementia to increase physical and social interactions and, most of all, have fun.
The added benefit of a mobile Rainbow Table means that Barchester’s residents can utilise it anywhere in the home; lounges, coffee areas, gardens or even bedrooms – the fun will come to them!
Gareth certainly enjoyed the Bowling and is looking forward to trying many more new activities.
Burns Night Celebrations!
Recently we had a fabulous time celebrating Burns night.
Having a few Scottish residents, we wanted to celebrate this important date on the Scottish Calendar. Robert Burns was a famous poet and lyricist. And is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland.
His poem and song ‘Auld Lang Syne’ is often sung on New Year’s Eve (Hogmanay) and ‘Scots Wha Hae’ served for a long time as the unofficial anthem of the country.
Residents enjoyed listening to the Bagpipes played by Peter Tennant and arranged by The Listening Room Music Agency.
New Minibus!
It might be wet and miserable outside, but we are very happy here at Emily Jackson House Care Home.
Our new minibus has arrived!!!
We are all very excited about the many outings and new memories we are going to make.
We regularly take our residents on minibus outings. Previously, we have visited garden centres, the coast, local pubs, National trust places, Biggin Hill airport, Spitfire museum to name but a few.
Christingle
It was so lovely to have so many families join us for our visit from Reverend Anne from St. Luke’s church.
We all sat together and made ‘Christingles’. Each element of a Christingle has a special meaning and helps to tell the Christian story: The orange represents the world. The red ribbon (or tape) symbolises the love and blood of Christ. The sweets represent all of God's creations.
It was great spending time together - enjoying each other’s company and listening and singing carols.
What a wonderful morning!
