Activities at Kings Park Care Home

Mama's little baby loves short'nin', short'nin',

Mama's little baby loves short'nin' bread,

Mama's little baby loves short'nin', short'nin',

Mama's little baby loves short'nin' bread.

Residents recently came together for an afternoon of music and baking up on our Memory Lane floor, as they all helped to bake some yummy shortbread to have with our afternoon tea.

Everyone mucked in to help with weighing, measuring and stirring the ingredients, before finally it was placed in a baking tray to cook.

The end result was a delicious warm shortbread sprinkled with sugar, which was enjoyed by residents, visitors and staff in our home.

Whilst the shortbread was baking, there was even some musical tunes from the musical Oliver; Food, Glorious Food, then a rendition of Tea for Two, Two for Tea, Banana Boat Song by Harry Belafonte and of course, Short'nin' Bread, plus many more food & drink related tunes were played and sang along to.

Take a look at our coverage on the FRONT PAGE of The New Stour & Avon Magazine!

Read here how we celebrated Elvis' birthday earlier on in January: -

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Guess who was spotted in one of our exercise sessions recently?

Every week here at Kings Park, the residents are encouraged to join in with one of the many on demand exercise classes provided to us by the wonderful Oomph Wellness, which helps to keep the residents moving, being fitter and stronger for longer...

And who did we spy joining in with one of their sessions? Only our lovely Senior General Manager, Jenna, that's who!

Go, Jenna! Show them how it's all done!

'Up two, three, four, down, two, three, four...'

If you happen to be in the home next time we have one of our exercise sessions, the you also can come along and join in - You would be most welcome!

Here at Barchester Healthcare's Kings Park, we like to enable our residents to still do all the lovely day to day things that they would usually do before moving into our care...

Getting out and about in our community is very important to some of our residents, so recently, when the lovely Eric asked if he could pop to Tesco in Ferndown for a a few bits, that's exactly what we enabled him to do!

Off he went in the company of our lovely Activities Lead, Claudia, and enjoyed a mosey around the supermarket for a few bits he wanted, before strolling back to the home.

It's these simple things that often mean the most and what they get the most pleasure from, so if we can do these things for our residents, then we absolutely will!

The fabulous Tony Edwards entertained our residents recently, adding a lot of lovely colour to our home...

Dressed in rather bright & cheerful attire, much to the delight of everyone, Tony sang some wonderful tunes from yesteryear, including hits from Elvis, Neil Diamond, Abba and many, many more!

There was singing, dancing and a wonderful atmosphere as Tony filled the home with lots of familiar music for everyone to enjoy - Including some of our lovely friends and family!

THANK YOU for your music, Tony and we hope you will be back to see us all again very soon.

Some of our wonderful residents from Kings Park and a resident from our sister home, Hyacinth House Care Home - Barchester Healthcare, were recently treated to a lovely day trip out to Beaulieu, National Motor Museum...

With Activities Lead, Claudia, at the wheel of the Kings Park minibus, they stopped off to collect a resident from Hyacinth House, before heading off on their special trip to Beaulieu through the very picturesque New Forest - Where they also spotted a few New Forest ponies.

They toured the fabulous Motor Museum, where they saw lots of vehicles from all eras, including some very famous ones too!

Mr Bean's mini, a James Bond car and the Queen's childhood play caravan, were just some of the amazing things they saw, but by far one of the most iconic cars spotted, was the magnificent car used in the filming of Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang!

Enjoying the beautiful blue skies and also a delicious picnic prepared by our Chef, the residents could not have had a more wonderful day.