Activities at Peony Court Care Home
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!
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 Peony Court Care Home
Top 20 Came Home 2024 award from carehome.co.uk
We are so happy to announce that we have received the 'Top 20 Came Home 2024' Award from Carehome.co.uk!
We have received this award in recognition that our home in in the top 20 rated care homes in our region, based on published reviews from residents and their family & friends.
Everyone at the home has been working incredibly hard to achieve high standards of care for their residents and are thrilled to celebrate this amazing achievement.
carehome.co.uk is the leading care home reviews website in the UK with nearly 18,000 care homes, 16 million+ visits per year and over 300,000 care home reviews.
A broad selection of friends and families have left glowing reviews of their experiences with the home on the website.
To achieve this award is a huge team effort. A big thank you to anyone who left a review. It does show our dedication and support.
93 and I beat Cancer!!
In the summer of 2023, 93 year old resident Joyce a retired teacher heard the words we all dread, “you’ve got cancer”. Joyce was diagnosed with a rare type of blood cancer the same type of cancer that sadly ended the life of her late husband; so when Joyce, her friends and family heard the news you can imagine how devastated everyone was. Joyce was naturally worried she said “I was incredibly frightened, I’m in my 90’s, what if the doctors say I’m too old for treatment, how do you make this kind of decision?”
Almost a year later following months of gruelling chemotherapy everyone was on tenterhooks, waiting for Joyce to come back from the hospital with news following her latest scans, when we say there were tears, there really were, floods! It was the news we were all hoping for, “you’re in remission!!”
Joyce said, “It is such an amazing feeling to know that such a loving group of people care so much about me and were by my side, it’s easy to write off an ‘old person’ and it felt like I was handed a death sentence, I want everyone to know, especially older people, cancer doesn’t mean you’re condemned, if you can find the strength, fight it every step of the way. I did!! And I’m so grateful that my friends, family and the whole team at Peony Court were by my side every step of the way!
'Words' of Art
A love of art is down to one's own subjective taste but this week we experienced a different perspective... We were joined by local poet Jill Saudek who brings art to life by writing poetry about it. It was incredibly interesting and certainly makes you think, what would you write about your favourite piece of artwork??
Tuesday Tunes
What better way to blow away the cobs than with a bit of "singing in the rain" - Well not literally, thankfully we were indoors. Every Tuesday we head off to a singalong group for older folks, singing is good for the soul and we get tea and biscuits for our efforts at the end as well!
Say it with Flowers
Valentines didn't go unmarked this year, residents took the opportunity of doing some flower arrangements with the help of a talented virtual florist Kathryn who talked us all through the process and how to make our displays look wonderful - I'm sure you'll agree we did a fab job!
The Funky Fidler!
Resident's were in for a treat recently as we welcomed back the talented Jimmy, AKA The Funky Fidler! Jimmy plays the guitar, piano, mandolin and even sings!
Upcoming events
Countdown to Christmas
Counting down the days to Christmas with a fun filled month ahead and we extend a warm invitation for you to join us as we get into the festive spirit. Merry Christmas!
Countdown to Christmas
Take a look at all of the wonderful festive events and activities throughout December. Please feel free to join our celebrations. Contacts us for more information.
