Activities at Peony 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.
Our Activities Coordinators are dedicated to enhancing residents' quality of life by providing regular social and psychological stimulation. The activities can be undertaken in groups or ‘one-to-one’ and are based on individual preferences. We have a varied programme, with the goal of appealing to the interests and capabilities of all residents as best as possible. For example, there's pottery, baking, Scrabble, art classes, exercise sessions and much more. The Activities Coordinators also organise visits from entertainers, local groups, including school choirs, religious services and outings on the minibus.
Paul McKee
Hi! I'm Paul, the Activities Co-Ordinator at Peony Court.
Before I joined the care sector I worked for many years in the hotel industry, managing housekeeping, hospitality and customer experience. Several members of my family have a history of working in care and I thought, maybe that could be me as well. I'm a natural entertainer with a flare for bringing smiles to people's faces and this was absolutely the right move for me.
Here at Peony Court, I make a point of getting to know each and every resident and their families. I tailor the activities program to suit individuals, no one is the same and everyone has different interests. It's my aim to be empathetic, enthusiastic and engaging with all of my residents. We have incredible activities and events here guided by exactly what our residents want, from pampering sessions to singing and dancing, chair exercises to arts and crafts, and diversity is absolutely the key!
I can't wait to welcome more residents and guests to Peony Court!
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 Peony Court Care Home
Celebrating International Youth Day
In celebration of International Youth Day residents headed to the local theatre Fairfield Halls to see and hear the wonderful Chineke Youth Orchestra. Chineke's goal is to provide career opportunities for Black and ethnically diverse classical musicians in the UK and Europe - their mission: ‘Championing change and celebrating diversity in classical music’.
The youth orchestra was aged between 11 and 22 and are tutored and mentored by older members of the orchestra. They were really fabulous to watch and they've even been featured in the BBC Proms, how lucky are we to have caught a performance!
Supper Club
We went all out recently to arrange a fancy dinner party at the request of some of our residents. They asked for good company, paired wines and some classy food options... and we delivered! We'll be hosting more of these nights in the near future...... once our residents decide on the cuisine they'd like to experience....
Park Life!
When the weather is agreeable our residents like nothing more than a stroll in the park, checking out beautiful greenery and flowers and more often than not stopping off for an ice cream or a cuppa!
Not the Paris Olympics..... The Peony Olympics!
The ancient Olympics started life in Olympia, Greece in the 8th century BC and in one format or another has been a lasting event across the world giving athletes the opportunity to compete with the best of the best in their chosen events...
The average person usually doesn't get the opportunity to be a part of the action but what most people do remember is taking part in a good old school sports day! So to mark the opening of the Paris Olympics 2024 we did just that, we hosted our very own sports day, AKA The Peony Mini Olympics!
Aiming for 'traditional'... Residents, staff and guests competed in a selection of games including swing ball, the bean bag toss, Velcro target ball, Quoits and more!
National ICE CREAM Day!
Did you know? The creamy deliciousness that is ice cream was once a rare luxury treat for the wealthy only, first seen at the banquet table of King Charles II way back in 1672. Nowadays ice cream is of course more readily available to everyone, not just the wealthy and the amount of flavours is almost infinite!
We decided to celebrate National Ice Cream day with a visit from a local ice cream van, 99's were the general favourite amongst our residents and whilst the sun was shining it thankfully wasn't quite hot enough to melt our ice creams... phew!
Peony Pets
A great deal of our residents and team love animals so we thought we'd throw a competition to find the cutest. We were not disappointed, there were 32 entries in all, the finalists were decided by Facebook 'likes' and the overall winner was picked by our residents. Congrats Mimi the cat and owner Jane, one of our valued volunteers here at Peony Court.
