Activities at Kernow House Care Home
Our Activities Coordinators organise varied and regular events. The activities that take place depend on what our residents tell us they are interested in and the feedback we get from their families. We currently have pop-up cafes where we socialise and maybe visit the hairdresser. We have regular live music events, a storyteller and visits from animals and we are often joined by families or friends during our social activities where they are always most welcome.
Living in Cornwall the surrounding countryside offers many beauty spots and we often have trips out to wherever our residents would like to go. At other times a walk to nearby shops or cafes is what we enjoy.
Louise is our hairdresser and she is with us twice a week. Louise also supports us during our weekly Namaste sessions where she offers hand massages in a relaxing environment. Every Thursday afternoon we have a time of worship supported by our local community. Our ice cream van, Kernow Kones, and our mobile pub, Kernow Keg, also make a weekly appearance. We have monthly clubs, when we play bingo or watch a film in our pop-up cinema. Residents on all units are invited to take part in a monthly Resident’s Meeting and they tell us what they would like.
Apart from these regular events, we also celebrate special occasions and often have musical entertainers to visit but we also make our own fun. All staff take part in fancy dress or charity events that we support and often what we do evolves through interaction between residents and care or activity staff. All this makes Kernow House a vibrant place to be where things happen both as group activities as well as on an individual level.
Bea Porup
Bea has many years of experience working in elderly care and both experience and training in dementia care. She has also worked extensively with people with Huntington's disease. Bea works closely with Sue, Jackie and our management team, nurses, carers and kitchen team to ensure our home has a vibrant environment with lots of events happening and varied opportunities for having both new and familiar experiences, making sure the people living here lead a rich and fulfilling life.
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 Kernow House Care Home
A visit from Alpacas
Little Man and Fleur are two alpacas who came to wish us a very Happy Christmas. This time they arrived dressed up as reindeer and looked very festive as they walked around our units, being petted by residents and staff alike. The alpacas come from Talons Owltimate Enounters and have visited us before but sometimes other animals come along instead. These visits are always very popular. Little Man and Fleur left us this Christmas card and we also wish all our visiting animals a very merry Christmas.
Making Christmas Cakes
It is time to make Christmas cakes and we have a great tradition at Kernow that involves the entire home. Residents, activities staff and volunteers make the cakes when our pop-up café is set up, and the kitchen staff bake them.
As you can see: Dan, our Head Chef, and Sam, our Kitchen Assistant, were quite excited about this. We have made 10 cakes and they will go out to the units to be decorated before being entered into our in-house competition. The winner will be put forward for Barchester’s Christmas Cake Competition, so it’s game on from us! May the best cake win!
Festival of Christmas Trees
We have entered this community event again this year and were lucky to have a prime position by the altar. Some residents came along and helped decorate the tree with the items we have made together.
Our theme this year was ‘every cloud has a silver lining’, and we made silver clouds and wrote about the things that make our lives that little bit easier. We hope lots of people see our tree and get as much pleasure from looking at it as we did making it.
10 Years at Barchester
Tony Silvestre was presented with his 10 year Long Service Award by Careen Harris. Tony works as a Carer, primarily doing night shifts, and has now been rewarded with a pin and a Love2Shop voucher. Well done, Tony!
Christmas is Coming
Christmas is nearly here and we are fortunate to be invited to St. Mary’s Church’s Festival of Christmas Trees & Cribs again this year. We have been busy making decorations, but at the moment, it is still a secret.
We went to Stacey’s Christmas Tree Farm and selected the best looking tree for the event. It was a beautiful morning with frost on the ground and beaming sunshine.
Remembrance Day
We marked this historic centenary in several ways at Kernow. Our two occupational therapy students designed and made poppies with residents during pop-up cafes, and these poppies were given to our residents on Remembrance Sunday.
A small group of residents went to the War Memorial in Launceston and took part in the service there, whilst another group drove to town later in the day to see the many wreaths laid in memory of those who came before us.
During the afternoon, we gathered to read and listen to war poems, and an extract from Sebastian Faulks’ 'Birdsong was' read, giving everyone a chance to reflect and remember.
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