Tewkesbury FieldsBarchester Healthcare

Activities at Tewkesbury Fields 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 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.

Read our brochure ‘Life-enriching activities’ for more information about life in our care homes.

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Paula Lourenco

Activities Coordinator

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.

Celebrating life at Tewkesbury Fields Care Home

Minibus outing to Tewkesbury Abbey

This week we had several trips to Tewkesbury Abbey to visit the Museum of the Moon. Whereby we saw the awe-inspiring artwork by Luke Jerram. Measuring 7 metres in diameter and featuring detailed NASA imagery. The internally lit Moon Sculpture floats amidst the gothic arches was simply stunning.

We all enjoyed the experience.

Pumpkin Competition and Carving

And the Winner of our Pumpkin Carving Competition is a family member. Congratulations for having the most voted pumpkin by our residents. It was certainly a very creative and detailed carved pumpkin, well done!

Pumpkin carving at Tewkesbury Fields.

During this week, it's has been fun, laughter and a little pumpkin magic as residents have been carving pumpkins together and the final creations are truly amazing!

For some, an activity that brings back memories of days spent with grandchildren, for others, an opportunity to experience and learn something new.

At Tewkesbury Fields, we bring the seasonal themed activities to the home, we encourage residents to take the benefits of the offered activities in the home for their mind, body and soul.

Visit from Beckford Nursery Children

Our residents were absolutely delighted to welcome the Nursery children for their first visit to Tewkesbury Fields Care Home.

The children bring such a zest for fun and learning, while our residents are always eager to share their wisdom and stories.

During this visit, we decorated Pumpkins, played with the parachute and even sang a few Nursery Rhymes together.

These intergenerational visits are proving to be a real favourite with both our residents and the children. We love seeing the smiles, laughter and connections that blossom each time they come together!

We look forward to seeing them again next month.

Scrabble Club

We support our residents in continuing their hobbies and daily lifestyle preferences. There are plenty of opportunities to join new activities too and make friends along the way.

At Tewkesbury Fields Scrabble is very much the favourite board game. Residents regularly challenge each other to a game -and at times is quite tense!

A day on the canal

Our special day with the Willow Trust.

Residents enjoyed a day cruising along the Sharpness - Gloucester Canal.

Everyone enjoyed a picnic, fresh air and just purely relaxing. Residents had a chance to steer the boat and have an in depth conversation with the skipper.

A big thank you to Skipper John and all the fantastic volunteers who make us feel very welcome on board. Residents have had a fantastic experience!

Minibus outing to the local garden centre

We love going out regularly in our minibus, we have so many places to visit in our locality.

This week our lovely residents enjoyed a wonderful afternoon at the local garden centre. We always take time for a cuppa and a chat.

We had a lovely time browsing the gifts, plants, and of course… the Christmas decorations!

There were lots of smiles, laughter, and a few things added to our Christmas wish lists.

It’s always such a joy to see our residents out and about enjoying experiences together

Celebrating our Head Housekeeper Winning Divisional Award

Barchester Care Awards.

The home was buzzing and full of excitement!

We are so proud of our fantastic Head Housekeeper Edyta. Who attended the Care Awards in Manchester to celebrate her winning Hospitality Champion for the Central Division.

We were live streaming whilst we raised a glass of bubbly and had delicious canapés, and we cheered from the roof tops!

Gentlemen that Lunch

"Gentlemen that Lunch".

The dining experience at Tewkesbury Fields is always a social occasion. This week our General Manager Phillip was invited to join some of the gentleman for a Fish and Chip lunch.

Phillip said "it was great to sit and chat whilst relaxing with a delicious lunch, especially on Fish and Chip Friday".

National Housekeeping Week

Happy National Housekeeping Week!

This week we’ve been celebrating our amazing housekeeping colleagues here at the home.

They work tirelessly behind the scenes to keep our home clean and welcoming for residents, visitors and staff members alike. Their hard work, care and dedication make such a difference every single day.

A huge thank you to our wonderful Housekeeping Team – we truly appreciate everything you do!

Visit from Gloucestershire Deaf Awareness

We were delighted to welcome Martha and Kate from Gloucestershire Deaf Awareness.

GDA provides practical and emotional support that enables a person to live confidently with their deafness.

One of our residents is keen to learn sign language and we are looking into hosting workshops within the home alongside raising awareness and supporting this amazing charity

Community Afternoon Tea

At Tewkesbury Fields we always extend our wonderful hospitality to the wider Community.

This week we launched our new Bi- Monthly Afternoon Tea event and welcomed new visitors to our home. Thanks to everyone who joined us!

We had a great time with lots of laughter and delicious treats, that consisted of various sandwiches, selection of cakes and of course scones, jam and clotted cream!

Share a Poem at Tewkesbury Library

Some of our ladies enjoy regularly attending "Share a Poem" at Tewkesbury library.

This is a regular favourite for some of our residents, they enjoy listening to others read poetry and chatting about life in general.

As you can see from the photos, our residents always bring laughter and smiles wherever they go.

Thank you Tewkesbury Library for another welcoming visit.

Classic Car Coffee Morning

We hold regular events at Tewkesbury Fields and one of the favourites is the Monthly Classic Car Coffee Morning. Our latest one was on a lovely crisp autumn sunny morning.

We welcomed members of the community to showcase their vehicles and enjoyed time reminiscing about vehicles that residents had owned through the years.

Celebrating Emergency Services Day

Celebrating International Dog Day

At Tewksbury Fields many of us are pet and animal lovers. So we couldn't let International Dog Day pass us by!

We organized a dog photography competition and we were thrilled with the amount of participants that took the time to send in the beautiful photos of their dogs.

Our residents enjoyed looking at them and the judging became very intense! The results were close - but the overall winner was Reg who is a 16 week puppy.