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
Guess Who, Guess What...
The residents of Kings Park absolutely love a jigsaw puzzle - we have always got one on the go in our cafe area...
With that in mind, Activities Assistant, Tracey, jumped on the jigsaw train and decided to make things a little more interesting for our residents!
We are very excited by what she has come up with - personalised Kings Park puzzles!
So now, instead of just piecing together a puzzle, they have now have to guess who or what the puzzle is - There may be one or two familiar faces or visitors in amongst some of the puzzles that Tracey has created and the best bit is, she can keep adding to our collection!
What a clever bean she is!
Our residents are already loving doing these puzzles, but if you happen to be visiting the home, then do grab a puzzle from our basket in the cafe area and help a loved one enjoy it!
Dementia Action Week: World Bee Day!
Recently in our home we explored one of our most favourite senses - That of taste!
With it being World Bee Day, a day for us to think about how we can protect our bees and other important pollinators and the essential job that they do, we thought it only right and proper to celebrate by sampling the sweet deliciousness that is...HONEY!
Residents from all of our home gathered together to taste some yummy honey and share their thoughts.
The conversation that followed, then turned to songs with 'honey', 'sweet' or 'sugar' mentioned in them, which then turned into an impromptu sing-along!
'Kiss me, honey, honey, kiss me! Thrill me, honey, honey, thrill me!'
The afternoon ended with a bee documentary for everyone to watch in our lounge.
What a fantastically sweet afternoon it was.
Dementia Action Week: Out & About...
It's so lovely to be able to get out and about with our residents...
Enabling the people we care for to have a change of scene is so valuable, to allow them the opportunity to get out of the home for a short while and reminisce and chat about their favourite places to visit, as well as explore new ones - even ones on their doorstep that they have never seen!
Getting out is so wonderful for everyone's mental health, especially to see the beautiful countryside around...
So today we ventured to the other side of Wimborne for a leisurely drive through the avenue of trees, up to Badbury Rings, then back to see Kingston Lacy House, before heading home for a very well deserved cuppa and some cake!
We even learned a little bit about the history of it all.
One VERY happy Chef!
We interrupt Dementia Action Week to bring you some news HOT off the press...
Here are Kings Park we are VERY pleased to announce that following our environmental health inspection of the kitchen, that Head Chef, Wynn is celebrating: -
5 STARS!
Massive congratulations to Wynn and his team for a job very well done indeed! Very well deserved.
Dementia Action Week: Getting Green Fingered
Recently here at Kings Park, some of our residents have been getting green-fingered as they pot up some sunflowers to add some brilliant rays of yellow sunshine into the garden...
Gardening is said to be really good for mental health and is the perfect tonic for many of our residents to lift their mood.
Sensory activities are a wonderful way to engage and really beneficial with or without dementia and so gardening is just one of the many ways we are able to enrich the lives of those in our care.
Nurturing and growing plants in and around our home also enables our residents to be involved in the garden and the best bit is... They absolutely LOVE it!
We cannot wait to see whose sunflower grows the tallest in our sunflower competition - Let the games begin!
Dementia Action Week: Balloon Tennis
Here at Kings Park we are acknowledging dementia in a big way this week as it's Dementia Action Week!
'Dementia Action Week 2023 will run from 15-21 May1 and is Alzheimer’s Society’s biggest and longest running awareness campaign. The week is an opportunity to raise awareness of dementia as well as highlighting all the great support available in the UK. You can find more information about the events taking place during the week by visiting the Alzheimer’s Society website.
Learn more:
2. ageuk.org.uk
To kick the week off, here at Kings Park our residents up on our Memory Lane floor were getting very active indeed during a very excitable game of balloon tennis this morning.
Balloon tennis is really enjoyed by our residents and really breaks the ice, gets everybody moving and engaging with each other and more importantly brings a lot of joy to our home!
Balloon tennis; exercising both body and mind!
