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
Avonwood School
With schools up and down the country all having gone back and settling down for the year ahead, our friends over at Avonwood Primary School have been busy making lots of wonderful plans for us to be involved with...
Kings Park were very excited to recently welcome Avonwood's Deputy Head, Kim Williams, into the home to discuss how we can work together for the future.
Upon arrival, Kim very kindly brought a wonderful bouquet of flowers and some delicious biscuits for our residents to enjoy - Pictured here with resident, Phyllis.
After a very successful meeting, King's Park will be linking in with the school for arts week, World Book day, World Poetry day and much, much more! Along with all this we will also receive further visits from the school for Christmas carolling, Christmas Jumper day, reading groups etc. So we have much to look forward to!
These kinds of intergenerational activities as so mutually beneficial for all concerned and we are excited will all these exciting times we have ahead.
Children spread so much joy amongst our residents and long may these links continue.
THANK YOU Avonwood for the kindness you have already afforded everyone here at King's Park.
Welcome to Megan!
Here at Kings Park we are saying 'Hello' and 'welcome' to our newest volunteer from Ferndown Upper School...
The fabulous Megan!
Megan has big aspirations to work in neuroscience, with a special interest in working towards making life better for those living with dementia, which she has personal experience of and this is her main drive.
A big sports lover, Megan loves to regularly play football, but she now very much is looking forwards to spending some time helping our residents with a variety of activities here in our home and we are all excited to get to know Megan too.
Thank you for joining our Kings Park family, Megan, you are so welcome!
Chitter Chatter Club
We have recently joined forces with the fabulous Anne Anderson from The Chitter Chatter Club page in order to combat loneliness in our local community.
So every Tuesday morning our residents all get together for a cup of tea and a good old natter, inviting anyone from our wider community to come along and join us.
EVERYONE is very welcome indeed to come and join us for this, so if you know of anyone locally who would like to come along and benefit from a morning of great company and companionship, then please encourage them to come along to this FREE event.
EVERY TUESDAY MORNING - 10.30AM - 12PM
We would love to see you!
Here are some pictures from last week's club, where everyone got chatting about yesteryear, thanks to some wonderful sheets with conversation starters.
Tickling The Ivories!
Residents had a wonderful morning earlier on this week, when they were entertained by the very talented, Alan Poulton...
Alan, who is a classically trained pianist, is very popular with residents from all floors, playing some of the well know classics, such as The Blue Danube and Fϋr Elise, as well as pieces from some of the popular musicals; I could have danced all night - My Fair Lady and Edelweiss - The Sound of Music.
The residents were in their element, singing and clapping along!
In between songs, Alan chatted about their memories of the songs and reminisced along with them.
Thank you Alan for another incredible visit - We hope to see you again very soon!
Pam's Special Trip
One of the best things about working in care is the lovely things we get to do to make our residents smile...
At Barchester Healthcare we love to help residents to 'Celebrate Life' and we recently made one amazing lady's wishes come true with a very special day trip, allowing her to step back into some of her most valued memories, by taking her back to a special place.
St Michaels Church Colehill, holds a very special place in the lovely Pam's heart; it was the very church where Pam was christened, where she married her late husband and also where she worshipped for many years and devoted much of her time as a volunteer.
Pam's smile was a mile wide when we were able to be welcomed into the church by the wonderful and very hospitable, Rev. Suzy, who showed us around and even posed for some photos by the very font where Pam was christened.
Thank you, Suzy for the very warm welcome and the very much appreciated refreshments - You have made Pam's year!
Book Worms!
Some of our residents really love a good book! So we thought we would do something special for our lovely book worms...
Acting in response to this, we would now like to showcase to you the Kings Park Book Exchange!
So, if you or any friends and family have any unwanted books/magazines that you would like to donate or exchange, then we will happily take them off your hands.
Our book exchange is situated in our orangery area on our ground floor - Come and take a look for yourself.
Pictured is the wonderful Pat, who is already enjoying what our Book Exchange has to offer!
