Activities at Highfield 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.
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.
Kim Quean
Hello, my name is Kim and I am the Activities Coordinator here at Highfield Care Home.
I joined Barchester in June 2024 and I am passionate about ensuring our residents have a varied life enrichment programme and a fulfilling lifestyle here in our home.
The residents' wellbeing and quality of life are important to me, and I enjoy singing, dancing and having fun on a themed day. I graduated from University of Derby BSC, in integrative health and social care in January 2021 and completed NAPA Level 2 Activity Provision in Adult Social Care the same year.
I look forward to working closely with you all, to ensure residents are happy, healthy and thriving.
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 Highfield Care Home
Dancing the morning away!
Moving into 2025, dancing and with a spring in our step!
Our residents love their music and being active, so we had a morning of dancing and making our own music.
Group activities form part of our varied life enrichment programme and keeping fit and active plays an important part of our group activities.
Home shortlisted for prestigious award
Highfield has been shortlisted for a Design Healthcare Award in the Best Exterior Design category. The home has been chosen out of hundreds of other entries from across the entire country.
The design maximises the views of the surrounding rural landscape allowing residents, staff, and visitors to enjoy the outdoors whatever the weather.
Residents enjoy a little pampering session
We've all been feeling under the weather these last couple of weeks, so what is better than a lovely massage? We invited our resident massage therapist, Michelle, over, and she soon had everyone feeling much better.
Michelle normally works mainly from our wellness room. However, today she made resident centred room visits to residents for those who weren't feeling 100%
Thank you so much Michelle Radi you're a superstar!
A bit of fun and movement.
We like to keep our residents active and happy and keeping fit together is a popular group session and brings lots of laughter and, of course, a little friendly competitiveness.
Here our residents are playing some fun games and enjoying some music and movement in one of our stunning lounges.
Swinging into the New Year.
We had a fantastic time bringing in the new year with Harry Collins a Swing Vocalist.
Our amazing Head Chef Judith & Second Chef Lindsay prepared some tasty canapes, from bite-sized prawn cocktail, BBQ belly pork on top of a poppadom crunch, mini lemon meringues, bailey filled chocolate eclairs and much more.
What a fantastic way to celebrate the New Year.
Hark the Herald Angels sing with local choir
Heavenly voices rang out at Highfield as the community came together to celebrate Christmas with a carol concert. Staff and residents got in the Christmas spirit by inviting the community to come and join in with a carol concert to sing some festive Christmas favourites. The singing was led by Joules, with the Super Singers.
As well as singing in the lounge at the home, the choir also took the time to visit other residents individually in their rooms to sing for them and sprinkle their Christmas magic for everyone to enjoy, no matter what their mobility.
Upcoming events
Menopause Coffee Morning
Please join us for our Menopause Awareness Session on Saturday 25 January starting at 10am to understand more about its impact on mental and physical health.
Financial Planning for Later Life
Join us on 27th January at 10am for an informative session on Financial Planning for Later Life.
January
Hello January! We have lots of exciting things planned throughout January and we hope you can join us - all welcome.
Meet the General Manager
We would like to invite you into our home to meet our manager, Luke Owens.
This is a fantastic opportunity to get to know our manager and ask any questions you may have.
Newsletter - Winter & Christmas edition
We are delighted to share our latest newsletter - Winter & Christmas edition - we hope you enjoy reading!
Looking for a place to host a meeting?
Looking for a place to host a meeting? Pop in and see what we have to offer!
Could you be a Volunteer?
Could you make a difference to someone's day to day life? If you are interested in volunteering and would like more information, we'd love to hear from you!
Calling all Emergency Services - take a break on us!
Calling all emergency services personnel! Come and take a break with us and enjoy a slice of home made cake and a warm welcome.
Dementia Coffee Morning
Free dementia coffee morning, everything fourth Wednesday at 10am.
Join us to make new friends whilst enjoying refreshments and our homemade sweet treats.
Don't Dine Alone - 1st Friday of the month
We know meal times can be lonely for older members of our community. Join us for a nutritious meal and make new friends. To reserve your place call 01937 221 720.