Activities at Kings Park Care Home
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.
Claudia Canosa
Claudia moved to the UK from her native South Africa with her family some 6 years ago, although her family are of Italian decent.
With a caring nature, Claudia worked for a domiciliary care company helping in people in the community before eventually working in a care home environment, working up to the role of Senior Carer.
Realising how much she enjoyed making the residents smile, Claudia has now stepped into the role of Activities Lead here at Kings Park and very much loves the interaction with our residents, who have all taken a real shine to her.
Claudia can regularly be seen with our residents in a very creative capacity, enjoying flower arranging or leading everyone in a game of good old fashioned Bingo!
When at home, Claudia is a mother to two boys and a girl and also a pet mum to the the gorgeous, Molly - a Jack Russell cross.
She loves nothing more than curling up on the sofa in front of a good rom/com, with: The Holiday, The Lakehouse and The Notebook as some of her favourites to date.
We are so happy to have her as part of the Kings Park team.
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 Kings Park Care Home
The BIG Barchester Quiz
Last week, residents gathered together in our top floor lounge for a very special interactive afternoon...
All the Barchester homes up and down the UK, all came together via Zoom for a special inter-home quiz afternoon.
Residents were really put through their paces as they fought to get the right answers.
Everyone involved really got stuck in and we will find out next week who the overall winners are.
(We do think we did pretty well though, even if we do say so ourselves!)
Thank you Barchester Healthcare for hosting such a fun and brain exercising afternoon.
We Love, LOVE!
We were very excited to recently help one of our many couples here in the home, celebrate their 63rd wedding anniversary...
The absolutely fabulous Peter & Valerie, who spent a quiet afternoon with their lovely daughter, were delighted to receive a card and a rather delicious, home baked cake, courtesy of our lovely Chef, Wyn.
Here is a lovely moment captured with some of our team here in the home, wishing them both well.
Pete & Valerie - BIG CONGRATULATIONS to you both and here's to many more!
If You Can't Stand the Heat...
One of our wonderful carers, Emma and her amazing side kick, Claudia (Activities Lead) recently rolled their sleeves and rallied our residents to get busy cooking up some delicious smelling savouries in our Memory Lane dining room recently...
Residents got stuck in mixing and rolling before baking sausage rolls, scotch eggs and cheese swirls!
Once these mouth-watering treats were out of the oven, everyone sat around the table for a nibble or two over some very well-deserved cups of tea.
All of the residents were brilliant, helping each other on this culinary journey of deliciousness!
Emma, Claudia and their Kings Park Soux chefs have done themselves proud!
WELL DONE EVERYONE!
Ice, Ice, Baby!
Recently, the sky may have been gloomy all the clouds all grey, but there was one lovely fellow who made our day...
A MASSIVE THANK YOU To the wonderful Arsenio from Freitas Ices, who literally made everyone's day here at Kings Park!
Arsenio came along to see us all in his amazing ice cream van and EVERYONE enjoyed some rather huge ice creams, leaving even bigger smiles on everyone's faces here in the home!
Residents from all over the home came outside to get themselves and their friends, a delicious whippy style ice cream with flakes (of course!), and everyone was absolutely thrilled by this.
Senior General Manager, Jenna May, was also on hand check on quality control and ensure the ice cream was up to our exacting standards, which we are more than happy to report, it was! (It's a tough job, but somebody had to do it!)
Thank you, Arsenio, for stopping off to see us all - The residents and staff thoroughly enjoyed your delicious ice cream and we hope to have you back again very soon!
Well Done Jake!
Residents and staff had all recently commented on what a fantastic asset the lovely Jake is to the home, so we felt he needed a little recognition for all his efforts!
Jake is wonderful with all of our residents and works so hard to keep them all happy in his role as host, ensuring that everyone is well fed at mealtimes, ensuring they have all they want from the tea trolley and he is great at raising a smile on the residents faces.
About to embark on learning to drive, Jake already has a car for when he passes his test, so we wanted to acknowledge that by getting him something motor related as a special gift...
So recently, our Senior General Manager, Jenna, presented Jake with a car cleaning kit as a thank you for all he does at Kings Park.
WELL DONE JAKE!
Neil Wookey Performs!
We recently welcomed the fabulous Fretworks: Neil Wookey - Guitarist, into our home for a wonderful afternoon of live music...
Neil was fantastic and played some wonderful, familiar songs from yesteryear to entertain the Kings Park residents.
Everybody loved having some live music in their home and thoroughly enjoyed his performance, chatting about it long after he had left the building!
It's amazing how much music can bring people together, as well as spreading so much joy amongst everyone.
THANK YOU, Neil, for a fabulous time - We home to see you again very soon.
