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
Stress Busters Carers Café
This lovely group was set up by carers for carers and is steadily growing within the Ferndown community. Based here at Kings Park, the group meet on the last Tuesday of each month and often have guest speakers to help and advise on a variety of care topics.
If you would like to join this fabulous group, please call 01202 863630 for further details
A Fond Farewell to Diana
We had a sad ‘goodbye’ to make last week as we wished our Administrator, Diana, a fond farewell and our best wishes for her and her family’s new life in another country!
Albeit only a four and a half hour drive away to Wales so we hope to see her return for a visit soon!
Diana has always welcomed visitors with a smile, buzzed around our reception making tea and coffee for residents and families and always showed our Barchester values. She will be missed by everyone.
We all wish you well in your new venture Diana!
Collage of a Seventy Year Reign
During the national period of mourning for our Queen, residents on Memory Lane made a touching collage with their favourite memories and photos of Her Majesty.
It was lovely discussing their memories of special moments during her reign and how the whole country celebrated her Coronation, especially how families and friends joined together to watch it on the only television in the street!
Using memories to make memories is a wonderful way to create a piece of art.
HM The Queen
Yesterday we paid our respects to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the day of her funeral, 19th September 2022.
The whole home came together to honour The Queen, her extraordinary life and service to the nation, the Commonwealth and the world over her 70 years of reign.
We all watched the televised service of the State Funeral that took place in Westminster Abbey, followed by the Committal Service at St. George’s Chapel, within the grounds of Windsor Castle.
During the period of national mourning, it was humbling to listen to our residents’ memories and thoughts about Her Majesty.
Life Long Friends
Aren’t life long friendships just wonderful?!
Dr Anne Dunn travelled all the way from Cheltenham early this morning, just to say hello and spend some time with her friend Pat, who is one of our resdents.
They used to go to school together and have been friends for seventy nine years!
Ashley from Central Taxis in Cheltenham said the journey hadn’t been too bad and that while Anne was seeing Pat, he was keen to take some nature photos although the weather wasn’t great.
Thank you to you both for coming all that way to visit Pat and Kings Park!
Red Arrows Arrive in Town
We took to the skies this afternoon to welcome the RAF Red Arrows to town for the Bournemouth Air Festival and waved our flags as they flew past us….in the distance admittedly ….but we still appreciated their roar!
