Activities at Tewkesbury Fields 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.
Paula Lourenco
Hello, my name is Paula and I’m the Activities coordinator at Tewkesbury Fields care home. I’ve joined Barchester healthcare in 2020.
As part of the lifestyle enrichment team, I will be organising daily activities, ensuring that residents have varied activities to choose from each day. I love enriching our residents’ lives, creating memories and be able to provide meaningful activities to each one of the residents living at Tewkesbury fields.
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 Tewkesbury Fields Care Home
Tour De Barchester
We've had an amazing time celebrating the arrival of the fabulous Tour de Barchester cyclists at Tewkesbury Fields.
Residents, families, staff and visitors gathered together as the chef cooked and served the delicious BBQ, we welcomed Emma from Mini Concerts who got us up dancing and singing together and we enjoyed socialising with each other in the gorgeous sunny weather.
Our fabulous resident ambassador Jack presented each cyclist with a medal to mark their visit at Tewkesbury Fields. It was also a time of reminiscence as Jack took part of the 1st Tour or Britain!
We also got to celebrate Barbara's birthday during the party with a delicious cake.
And yes, we REACHED 200 MILES on our exercise static bike
Fantastic everyone, well done!
Learning Chess
Concentration was key.....
This afternoon we spent a couple of hours learning how to play Chess.
We've started learning with one of the best teachers and players that we could possibly ask for, fabulous resident Jack. Our activities coordinator Paula and resident Vivienne
Always up to learn and develop new skills!
We shall continue taking more lessons.
Harvesting the Crop
Gardening club this week gave our residents a fabulous feeling of achievement!
Look at the amount of potatoes that we have grown.
Not only we picked great potatoes and strawberries from the garden, but we also had good fun, great laughter together, and just that feeling of being able to offer one of the residents' favourite hobbies, gardening.
Everyone commented on how beautiful they looked and the great work we've all done
Activities in the home this week
Some of this week's activities included getting creative and soft ball games such as throw and catch, which was a fantastic way of doing gentle exercise as well as having good fun.
During the baking club, residents enjoyed making delicious cookies
Great fun and with lots of memories shared between residents and staff, reminiscing about the many days when baking for coffee mornings held at the local Churches and /or village halls.
Gardening Club
This afternoon, after watering the sunflowers and other plants during our gardening club, some of our residents enjoyed a walk in our gardens checking out on the potatoes and strawberries that we planted months ago.
We are very proud of our work and how healthy they look! We even had the chance to pick and taste the 2 first strawberries
Celebrating 104 Years old in style
Celebrating 104 years old in style
Yesterday we were absolutely delighted to celebrate Marion's 104th birthday.
Friends from Bredon W.I. visited in the morning for a coffee and share memories together, from when Marion was President.
This afternoon we've welcomed Emma from Mini Concerts for the party and celebrate Marion's big day with family, more friends and staff at Tewkesbury Fields. And what a party!
One of Marion's friends surprised everyone by presenting a what we believe to be 99 years old tambourine that Marion used to play when dancing at a young age. It has been very well looked after and it will now be kept in the family.
Happy 104th birthday Marion!
