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
Party Time!
Recently, our residents all came together in our ground floor foyer for a wonderful Christmas party...
The table was laid and the the residents enjoyed plenty of music, dancing and merriment as they tucked into some delicious buffet party food, all made by our wonderful Chef, Wyn.
There was plenty of obligatory cracker pulling, party hat wearing and even the Hokey-Cokey and a bit of YMCA!!!
It was a truly brilliant afternoon!
Time for an Elfie!
Recently, here at Kings Park you may have been greeted upon entering our home with some very festive characters...
The staff had a rest and their cheeky doppelganger elves stepped in to run the home!
Raiding awareness for the Alzheimer's Society, everyone was a little extra festive for the day, much to the surprise and delight for all of our residents.
Here's a few photos for you to enjoy!
Festive Baking
Up on Memory Lane recently, residents were very eager to roll their sleeves up and get stuck in for a spot of festive baking...
Christmas cupcakes was what was on the agenda for the day and they soon busied themselves whisking, mixing and decorating, before finally consuming the delicious treats.
They all had a wonderful time, but the best bit was definitely trying their cakes, along with an obligatory cup of tea!
Well done everyone, they look wonderful!
Christmas Tree Festival
We recently took pride of place at St. Martin's Church in West Moors, as they hosted their annual Christmas Tree Festival...
Local businesses, charities and community groups were all encouraged to dress a tree to go on show in the Church for the whole community to come along and view.
This year our theme was 'Christmas Memories', so we asked residents what their favourite moments from their Christmas' past were and we used these to decorate the tree.
These included: -
Dad saying: 'That's just what I always wanted!' when opening any present.
Crispy roast potatoes.
Mum making a huge Christmas cracker filled with all our presents.
Spending time with family
Playing silly games
Watching everyone open their presents
What a wonderful chance for reminiscing with everyone - Thank you all for sharing these important moments with us.
What's your favourite Christmas memory?
Avonwood School Nativity
Some our our lovely Memory Lane residents recently ventured out to see a very special seasonal school Christmas play...
Having been invited by the wonderful students and staff from Avonwood Primary School, Brenda, Pat & Eileen, accompanied by Claudia, our Activities Lead, headed towards Bournemouth on the Kings Park minibus for a very special showing of the year 2 children's nativity play, much to everyone's delight!
This was the children's first proper run through with an audience and they all did marvellously!
There was lots of wonderful singing, acting and LOTS of sparkly outfits, which the residents loved.
After a lovely chat to all the performers and a quick photo or two, the residents were then ushered into a lovely warm staff room for a cuppa and some delicious mince pies and an audience with Mary, Joseph and the donkey.
It was a magnificent afternoon, thoroughly enjoyed by all!
THANK YOU AVONWOOD PRIMARY SCHOOL for a wonderful show and for your fabulous hospitality - The residents LOVED it!
Festive Scrabble
We recently welcomed back Steve, with his GIANT Scrabble board, much to the delight of our residents...
Splitting into two teams, there were some very tense moments as words were played on the board.
Thank you Steve, for another great session and we hope to welcome you back to Kings Park very soon!
