Activities at Kingswood Court Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
Activities are the cornerstone of a wholesome home experience, and our Activities Coordinators are always putting their creative minds to the test by organising new and exciting social events for residents to partake in. Of course, we take into account the likes and dislikes of those we support, so if someone doesn’t feel like trying something new, there will always be something on offer to reflect their personal interests. For the people who may just prefer some peace and quiet instead, we also offer one-to-one time that can be enjoyed with a nice cup of coffee or just a simple chat – whatever they desire.
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 Kingswood Court Care Home
St Stephen’s Junior school visit for World Book Day
We invited children to visit us for World Book Day. They dressed up as their favourite book characters and spent the morning with us. They had fun reading from their favourite books and our residents really appreciated the story time! They ended their visit with a Willy Wonka buffet prepared by our Head Chef.
Our new Toddler group is very popular!
Kingswood Court is now welcoming a toddler group every other Wednesday. The groups are led by Hollie from Lullababy and are proving very popular to families and residents alike. We welcome ten toddlers and babies and their guardian in Maple lounge. Our residents are now saying Wednesday is their favourite day! We are loving the sensory activities, and everyone is having fun joining in the singing and games.
Resident knits dozens of hats for premature babies
Resident knits dozens of hats for premature babies
Story: Kingswood Court resident Tricia Eusden has always loved to knit. She teamed up with friends to knit hats and matinee jackets for premature babies at St Michael’s hospital in Bristol.
Together the group of friends knitted more than 60 hats in lovely pastel colours and gifted them to the maternity unit at St Michael’s in February.
Tricia said she was very happy to make something useful for premature babies and their families. It looks like another bag of baby items will be delivered soon!
Kingswood Court Christmas Cake Winners!
Huge Congratulations to Head Chef Lee and his team for being announced as the Central Division Winners of the Christmas Cake Competition.
This stunning cake was a 4kg boiled whiskey fruit cake, with bauble muffins showing the residents names on as well as the Kingswood Court logo. All topped with rice crispy cone and meringue kisses. Standing at 1.6 meters this really was a show stopper!
Christmas Displays at Local Garden Centre
Kingswood Court residents had a lovely trip out to Whitehall Garden Centre in Whitchurch. We had been told about the wonderful Christmas displays there and they certainly didn't disappoint it was beautiful, we all loved the singing reindeer! We then strolled around the Christmas shop and finished the trip with tea and cake! A very enjoyable time was had by all.
Kingswood Court Says Thank You
Kingswood Court held a professionals' thank you dinner. Hosted by General Manager, Mathan, we welcomed local pharmacists, GPs, the neighbourhood police officers, as well as health care professionals including those who support care homes across the county. Kingswood Court wanted to thank the community that supports the home throughout the year. It was also a great opportunity to thank the Barchester support teams who are not based in the home but visit regularly working with us from training to marketing, as well as the life enrichment team and our dementia specialist nurse.
Following welcome drinks in the Maple Lounge we went through to the dining room and enjoyed an absolutely delicious three course dinner. Thank you so much to Head Chef Lee and the hospitality team for the amazing food. Mathan spoke about the changes at Kingswood Court and what a great place the home is in; firstly in terms of care standards and quality of life of our residents, but also the ongoing refurbishment. There were a couple of quizzes, one all about Bristol and even with quite a few Bristolians in the room there were some gaps in knowledge about this great city!
It was a thoroughly enjoyable evening, we are so grateful to those who work with Kingswood Court and we look forward to working with you all in 2024.
