Become A Care Home Friend – Intergenerational Challenge

Welcome to Week 1 of our Challenge! We start this week by thinking about different age groups.

Here are the activities to download:

• Key Stage 1 Activity Sheet:

• Key Stage 2 Activity Sheet:

• Key Stage 3 Activity Sheet:

Here are the Notes for Leaders – please read before starting!

• Week 1 Notes For Leaders

We’ve also created an assembly supporting Global Intergenerational Week:

• Key Stages 1 & 2 Assembly – Global Intergen Week

• Key Stages 1 & 2 Teacher notes – Global Intergen Week Assembly

• Key Stages 3 Assembly – Global Intergen Week

• Key Stage 3 Teacher notes – Global Intergen Week Assembly

This week focuses on connecting with people of different ages.

Here are the activities to download:

• Key Stage 1 Activity Sheet:

• Key Stage 2 Activity Sheet:

• Key Stage 3 Activity Sheet:

Here are the Notes for Leaders – please read before starting

• Week 2 Notes For Leaders

What is a care home? Who lives there? This week focuses on an introduction to care homes.

Here are the activities to download:

• Key Stage 1 Activity Sheet:

• Key Stage 2 Activity Sheet

• Key Stage 3 Activity Sheet:

Here are the Notes for Leaders – please read before starting. We also have some additional information about care homes to support adults to have conversations with young people about the topic.

• Week 3 – Notes For Leaders

• Additional information about care homes

This week we are thinking about the people who work in care homes and the different kinds of support they give.

Here are the activities to download:

• Key Stage 1 Activity Sheet:

• Key Stage 2 Activity Sheet:

• Key Stage 3 Activity Sheet:

Here are the Notes for Leaders – please read before starting.

• Week 4 – Notes For Leaders

In Week 3 we also released some additional information about care homes which you may wish to refer back to. This information is designed to support adults to have conversations with young people about care homes. 

This week we are finding out about the care homes in our local area. The activities this week involve internet research.

Here are the activities to download:

• Key Stage 1 Activity Sheet:

• Key Stage 2 Activity Sheet:

• Key Stage 3 Activity Sheet:

Here are the Notes for Leaders – please read before starting

• Week 5 – Notes For Leaders

This week we are making a postcard to send to our local care home.

As it’s Half Term in most places, children are also encouraged to share with those they live with what they’ve learnt so far in this Challenge.

Here are the activities to download:

• Key Stage 1 Activity Sheet:

• Key Stage 2 Activity Sheet:

• Key Stage 3 Activity Sheet:

Here are the Notes for Leaders – please read before starting

• Week 6 – Notes For Leaders

• Postcards of Kindness Ideas Sheet

Over the next 3 weeks, we are creating a hand-made gift to send to older people living in our local care home. We hope this will spread joy and kindness.

We have some ideas of activities you might like to try. Some have step-by-step instructions included (see Notes to Leaders). Alternatively you may wish to create something of your own. If you have more time, you could make more than one gift. Enjoy!

Here are the activities to download: 

• Key Stage 1 Activity Sheet:

• Key Stage 2 Activity Sheet:

• Key Stage 3 Activity Sheet:

Here are the Notes for Leaders – please read before starting. These notes also contain the hyperlinks to step-by-step instructions for some of the activities.

Congratulations – you have reached the final week of the Challenge! This week children and young people receive their certificates and celebrate becoming Care Home Friends. In the final activities they reflect on their experiences of taking part and consider what they could continue doing with their local care home. It is also Care Home Open Week.

Here are the final activities and certificates to download: 

• Key Stage 1 Activity Sheet:

• Key Stage 1 Certificate:

• Key Stage 2 Activity Sheet:

• Key Stage 2 Certificate:

• Key Stage 3 Activity Sheet:

• Key Stage 3 Certificate:

Here are the Notes for Leaders – please read before starting. 

Congratulations everyone! We hope you have enjoyed taking part.