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 Green Room Remembers...
Here at Kings Park Recently, we were delighted to welcome our friends, Sasha & Wendy from The Green Room, for a wonderful performance...
This delightful duo took us back to yesteryear with a wonderful show, acknowledging the war and the fallen and acted out some funny, yet heartfelt and emotional moments as they took us back to times gone by.
It was the perfect show, using a mix of music and memories, as some of our residents were transported back to their youth, as they remembered days gone by.
Pausing for some poetry and a short moment of reflection for those who fought, they ended on a lighter note, as they got everyone singing and waving their union jacks.
Thank you both for such a wonderful show, done in such a considerate and thoughtful way - It was the perfect balance.
We look forward to seeing you both again very soon!
Armistice
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month - Kings Park remembered the fallen...
Over the road at the Royal British Legion Club Ferndown, one of our residents, Eric, kindly volunteered to lay a poppy wreath at the memorial from all of the residents & staff here at Kings Park.
Thank you Eric for being our home's ambassador at this event - You have done us all proud!
We also want to thank the wonderful children from Ferndown First School, who have coloured some wonderful pictures for our residents to remember the fallen. What a beautiful display it has made and the residents really appreciate all your efforts.
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Helping with Research...
We were recently contact by the lovely Chloe, who is a researcher for Leeds Beckett University...
Chloe is looking at how care homes can benefit from engaging with you children in their environments and the difference this can make, especially with regards to anyone living with dementia.
For some time now we have been hosting, with great success, our Kings Kids mother a baby group here in our home and so Chloe decided to come along and learn more about the effects this has on our residents.
Barchester Healthcare already work closely with Leeds Beckett University who help with their dementia training for all our staff, so we were delighted when Chloe approached us for her research.
Living in Wimborne, this is the perfect location for Chloe to see what we get up to and we will be working with Chloe in future to help her further.
Our residents really look forward to these sessions spent with the little ones and this interaction really gives them a sense of purpose and always brings plenty of smiles - Long may these sessions continue!
The Reading Buddies are Back Again
Our very favourite Reading Buddies from over at Ferndown First School were back in action at Kings Park recently...
A small group of twelve or so children from across the road came along to see our residents and were paired up for a little bit of reading.
Our foyer was alive with chatter and giggles as everyone read to their buddies so well.
Shy and timid on the way in, but brimming with self-esteem and confidence on the way out!
Our residents really love these sessions and feel like they have a real sense of purpose in their day. Especially one of our residents who used to be an infant school teacher, who said: 'Well that has taken me back...'
We look forward to the next session Ferndown First School - You are all wonderful!
November Butterflies!
Our residents were recently chatting about the warm and sunny weather in the Kings Park gardens...
They were particularly fascinated at the incredible number of butterflies and bees hovering over our buddleia bush... In NOVEMBER!!!!
Look at how beautiful they were.
Charity Goals!
Earlier on in the year you may have seen on Facebook all about Eric's EPIC Walk, where we challenged everyone to get out and about, walking a mile each to improve mental health and donate to our cause in order to raise money for two incredibly deserving charities...
Julia's House Children's Hospice & Lewis-Manning Hospice Care, who both do incredible work in our community.
So this week we welcomed the lovely Amanda Gillett (Julia's House) & Ruth Wright (Lewis Manning Hospice Care), as well as Eric's amazing cheerleader, and local Mayor of Ferndown, Krissy Stamp (@Ferndown Town Council), to come along to the home for our formal cheque presentation.
Our goal was to raise £1000 to split between both charities, and we can now announce that Eric and our incredible residents have raised a wonderful....
[DRUM ROLL PLEASE!]
£1003.56!!!!!
We are so proud of everyone's efforts and donations to get to our goal and we would also like to give a BIG shout out to the students from Ferndown First School who raised a large part of this money!
THANK YOU EVERYONE!
