Activities at Emily Jackson House Care Home
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 centered activity program.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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
Staff Appreciation
All of the staff at Emily Jackson House are dedicated to supporting and caring for our residents but carers Manori and Funmi go the extra mile.
They are always happy to help.
We are happy to recognise their hard work with a small token of appreciation for being such great team players.
Fun and smiles!
What a great time we had at our Easter Fete!
We had several stalls run by local small businesses, a raffle and a tombola.
Refreshments were available throughout the day and we were entertained by the wonderful June B.
A resident commented ‘It was like a party!’. It certainly did feel that way.
Thank you to all that helped, had a stall and to everyone that came.
We thank you for your continued support.
Easter Holy Communion
In the morning, we had a Holy Communion service with Anne, the vicar from St. Luke’s church. After a lovely service and a few hymns, we all indulged in some buttery, delicious hot cross buns with our drinks. Anne, visits the home regularly to see the residents and offer Holy Communion. After lunch we managed to dodge the rain and ventured out in the minibus. The residents were keen to see some spring flowers so we visited Seven Oaks Garden Centre and Cafe. Dionne our volunteer from North Kent College was on hand to help. There was such a lovely display of plants and flowers to see.
Afternoon fun with Clayton
We love it when Clayton visits us at Emily Jackson House. He always brings so much energy and fun. Clayton entertained us with such a great selection of songs. The residents had a great time singing along, clapping and dancing. Thank you Clayton for another wonderful afternoon of music.
John's birthday
March was a very busy month for birthdays and anniversaries at Emily Jackson House. We were very pleased to arrange and host a surprise birthday party for resident John Lucas. John has lived in Sevenoaks most of his life and is an artist. Barry the landlord from The Anchor, Sevenoaks was key to organising this event and got in touch with Johns old friends. Barry also very kindly supplied all the booze for the party. The evening was a great success!! So lovely to see a smile on John’s face.
Music and Other Things
Music is an important part of life at Emily Jackson House but we do lots of other things.
Recently we have been playing Bingo, Uno, balloon tennis , doing crosswords and Word searchs and making cookies The residents have taken part in a sensory activity and we have been making Easter decorations for our Easter trees.
With the help of our wonderful volunteer, Guy from local school – Sevenoaks School, Resident Tony has been building a model aeroplane. Tony used to fly spitfires and used to navigate on them during the war.
