Activities at Newington Court Care Home
Our Activities Coordinator here at Newington Court constantly strives to mentally and physically stimulate those we support in our home. We have our own minibus enabling residents to go shopping, to the local garden centre, out for fish and chips, and for boat trips in the summer. We also have regular visits from the PAT dog, musicians and entertainers. We hold cheese and wine evenings for residents and their families and our residents attend services at the local school for Remembrance Day and Christmas. The junior school also come in and sing for our residents at Christmas. The residents also attended a Christmas Party held at a local Grammar School hosted by the students.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 Newington Court Care Home
National Carers Week
At Newington Court we like to celebrate National Carers Week. This year we created watercolour cards using an artwork template designed by our Activity Coordinator, and artist, Chloe. We later treated the carers to chocolates and presented them with their cards.
Gardening Club
We love to be outside at every opportunity. We have a gardening club and have been growing rosemary, thyme, busy lizzies, geraniums and sunflowers this year. Here we are planting out our sunflowers for our competition!
Knitting Natter Nora Club
When Chloe joined our Activities Team she started the Knitting Natter Nora Club on a Monday morning. It’s a chance to catch up with friends and learn a new skill. We have been knitting, crocheting, making pompoms and other crafts using wool. It’s a very social time for us which we very much look forward to.
Jubilee Celebrations
At Newington Court we like to observe special national and international days. In June we celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. We decorated the home and garden with hand crafted decorations in red, white and blue. We had a party in the garden with family, friends and staff where we had live entertainment with Liam Joseph and later we joined the hula hooping demonstration in the beautiful sunshine. We enjoyed a feast of coronation chicken sandwiches, strawberries and cream, scones and jam and a glass of Pimm’s! The kitchen staff made a beautiful celebration cake and we danced the evening away!
VE Day
We like to observe special anniversaries at Newington Court and VE Day is no different. We reminisced about our own memories and celebrated in the garden with a few drinks, nibbles and music
Arts and Crafts
Following our sunflower theme this week, we have been painting our own sunflowers to display in our living rooms
