Activities at The Warren Care Home
Here at The Warren, our activities team are always very busy thinking of new ways to keep residents active, both physically and mentally. We have regular trips out in the minibus, both locally and further a field, including the London Eye and the Thames River Trip), at least once a week during the summer months. We also enjoy visits from PAT dogs and have professional exercise sessions and live entertainment, which are always popular.
Kirstie Bush
My name is Kirstie and I am lucky enough to be the Activities Coordinator here at The Warren.
I have many years of experience working in care homes in Activities and leisure and lifestyle roles.
I love being part of The Warren team and supporting our residents to live their best lives with fun, interesting, and varied activities available every week. I always feel that the importance of residents' input into our weekly planner is important giving all residents equal opportunity to explore new interests as well as keeping up with previous interests and hobbies.
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 The Warren Care Home
French Day
Today we visited France. So I ordered in our very own French man for the day...Barchester’ s very own Christophe, our Divisional Hospitality Manager. After a delicious lunch of Chicken Fricassee with Tartelette and crème Brule the residents moved into the lounge for a game of Petanque. Of course Christophe gave us a quick lesson before dressing up for pictures. Oh la la we did have fun today.
Autumn Decoration
We felt very Autumnal today, so off we went and bought some wonderful pumpkins and munchkins from our local farm shop, Hill Top farm. Aren't they just gorgeous!! So we made a wonderful welcome display for our residents and visitors to enjoy.
Trip to our local Cattery
We had the best outing today. Huge thanks to Claire at Palm View Cattery in Sprowston for letting us meet your gorgeous cuddly visitors. These pussy cats were just beautiful and we all wanted to take one home. To see the joy on our residents faces just having a cat sit on their lap for a cuddle was just so fantastic. These lovely pictures speak volumes about how much they enjoyed the visit. For our Cat Mad residents, this was just absolutely wonderful.
Pottery Art Class
Such a wonderful day, the residents did something they had never done before, pottery. We made everything with Air Dry clay and their artistic side was well and truly alive. I personally love Brenda’s “Key to my Heart” and once painted and varnished will be a wonderful keepsake for her. Well done ladies and gents you did very well.
The “Warrenwealth” games
Today we held the 1st Warrenwealth games. We played Boules, Football and table tennis. We laughed a lot, dropped the ball a lot but had a fantastic time doing it. Well done to Evelyn for being the overall winner of the 1st Warrenwealth games.
Trip to Sandringham to pay our respects to the Queen
We took the morning travelling to Sandringham to pay respects to our Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.
It was a beautiful day, and the weather was just perfect. We bought some flowers to take and a picnic and it was just wonderful.
The residents were staggered by the sheer amount of flowers, gifts, toys and balloons that had been left. The residents thoroughly enjoyed their day and felt honoured to be able to mark her passing in this way.
Upcoming events
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.
