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
Seaside Memories...
Reminiscence is something that everyone here in our care truly enjoys, especially those of our residents who may be living with dementia...
Remembering and chatting about those memories which we all hold dear, often bring the residents together (usually over a nice cup of tea & a piece of delicious cake!), to share their thoughts and special moments.
Up on our Memory Lane floor, tapping into these sometimes forgotten treasured memories, can often bring so much joy to the individuals we care for and sometimes it's the little things which enable them to remember these wonderful thoughts and feelings.
Whether it's a picture and item, a song or a phrase, these things can often unlock something lovely.
With that in mind, our Activities Lead, Claudia, has put together a lovely seaside reminiscence rummage box to encourage the residents to chat and share thoughts and feelings.
If you would like to enjoy the rummage box with a loved one, please chat to our Activities team who can assist with this.
V.E. Day Celebrations!
At Kings Park recently, we celebrated what would have been the 79th anniversary of the Victory in Europe celebrations...
Many of our residents have spent time sharing memories of this epic day in history, when Europe celebrated the end of world war II.
They talked of street parties and rejoicing, singing & dancing and the coming together as a nation as everyone; far and wide, breathed a huge sigh of relief at the end of this dark, dark period in our past.
During the afternoon on Tuesday 8th May, our residents rejoiced once more, but this time to the music of the returning Neil Wookey, who was back again to perform by popular demand!
The patio party that ensued, had residents singing and waving their union jacks in celebration of this momentous anniversary.
During the evening, residents also watched the film: A Royal Night Out, which tells the true tale of the Princesses Elizabeth & Margaret, who for one night only, escaped the palace for an evening of VE celebrations with the London public.
Overall it's been so much fun and our residents have thoroughly enjoyed themselves - Thank you again, Neil, for a wonderful musical performance!
The BIG Barchester Quiz
Last week, residents gathered together in our top floor lounge for a very special interactive afternoon...
All the Barchester homes up and down the UK, all came together via Zoom for a special inter-home quiz afternoon.
Residents were really put through their paces as they fought to get the right answers.
Everyone involved really got stuck in and we will find out next week who the overall winners are.
(We do think we did pretty well though, even if we do say so ourselves!)
Thank you Barchester Healthcare for hosting such a fun and brain exercising afternoon.
We Love, LOVE!
We were very excited to recently help one of our many couples here in the home, celebrate their 63rd wedding anniversary...
The absolutely fabulous Peter & Valerie, who spent a quiet afternoon with their lovely daughter, were delighted to receive a card and a rather delicious, home baked cake, courtesy of our lovely Chef, Wyn.
Here is a lovely moment captured with some of our team here in the home, wishing them both well.
Pete & Valerie - BIG CONGRATULATIONS to you both and here's to many more!
If You Can't Stand the Heat...
One of our wonderful carers, Emma and her amazing side kick, Claudia (Activities Lead) recently rolled their sleeves and rallied our residents to get busy cooking up some delicious smelling savouries in our Memory Lane dining room recently...
Residents got stuck in mixing and rolling before baking sausage rolls, scotch eggs and cheese swirls!
Once these mouth-watering treats were out of the oven, everyone sat around the table for a nibble or two over some very well-deserved cups of tea.
All of the residents were brilliant, helping each other on this culinary journey of deliciousness!
Emma, Claudia and their Kings Park Soux chefs have done themselves proud!
WELL DONE EVERYONE!
Ice, Ice, Baby!
Recently, the sky may have been gloomy all the clouds all grey, but there was one lovely fellow who made our day...
A MASSIVE THANK YOU To the wonderful Arsenio from Freitas Ices, who literally made everyone's day here at Kings Park!
Arsenio came along to see us all in his amazing ice cream van and EVERYONE enjoyed some rather huge ice creams, leaving even bigger smiles on everyone's faces here in the home!
Residents from all over the home came outside to get themselves and their friends, a delicious whippy style ice cream with flakes (of course!), and everyone was absolutely thrilled by this.
Senior General Manager, Jenna May, was also on hand check on quality control and ensure the ice cream was up to our exacting standards, which we are more than happy to report, it was! (It's a tough job, but somebody had to do it!)
Thank you, Arsenio, for stopping off to see us all - The residents and staff thoroughly enjoyed your delicious ice cream and we hope to have you back again very soon!
