Activities at The Fernes 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.
At The Fernes we endeavour to make our care as personal as possible, including when it comes to activities. We will give you a 'Getting to Know Me' booklet for you to fill out with your loved one before they arrive, which includes a little life history and a tick sheet for a vast amount of activities. This enables us to offer the activities we know they will enjoy and enables us to learn valuable information about their lives and what might stimulate them in conversations and trips.
Our specialist Activities and Lifestyle staff make sure there are always meaningful activities to take part in, such as helping in the garden, baking some bread to have with our dinner, and trips out to various locations nearby such as the beach and the garden centres. Residents are encouraged to take part, but it is always the resident’s choice to participate or not as we believe that having choice is very important to help our residents feel in control of their lives. There are activities on offer every day (and night for those night owls) in the form of word puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, arts and crafts, needle crafts and board games to name a few. We have entertainment that is organised at least twice a month such as Music for Health, Zoolab or musicians, and also have a wonderful Yoga instructor who comes every other week.
Activities are provided by everyone in our home from carers and specialised activities staff, right through to our admin team. If there is a task that needs doing and a resident would like to do it, such as sealing envelopes and putting stamps on or handing out popcorn for our Movie Mondays, they are very welcome to help out which enables us to give them a better feeling of purpose and self-worth.
We are a registered member of the National Activity Providers Association (NAPA), which means that we are always working to make the quality of life of all of our residents as high as possible by working with person-centred activities that aim to stimulate our residents, both mentally and physically.
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 The Fernes Care Home
Sunday Social Club
Chair Exercises for Improved Stability
At The Fernes we are very fortunate to have a qualified exercise instructor on our Activities Team, Karen loves to work with the residents on improving their core stability to decrease their likelihood of falls.
Group Exercise is also fantastic for socialisation and just great fun.
Flower Arranging
In readiness for Spring ithe residents enjoyed some flower arranging. This is a great way to socialise and enjoy others company with tea and biscuits and beautiful flowers which we then display around our home.
Chinese New Year
Our residents have enjoyed celebrating The Chinese New Year, they created their very own Chinese dragons during Arts Club and our home chefs brought a taste of China to our menu! Serving us a delicious King Prawn curry, Chicken mushroom and vegetable stir fry, sweet and sour vegetables with egg fried rice finishing off with a yummy Chinese mango pudding and doughnuts
Flower Arranging
To celebrate the start of the RHS Chelsea flower show our lovely ladies here at The Fernes were busy making some beautiful arrangements for the home.
They handpicked their flowers for their arrangements and had a wonderful time designing beautiful displays that have brightened up our home!
ZooLab Animal Therapy
We had a fantastic afternoon with ZooLab. Our residents enjoyed holding many different creatures whilst learning interesting facts about each animal. There was lots of laughter and smiles as our residents were educated and introduced to all the creepy crawlies ZooLab brought in to meet us.
