Activities at Glebefields 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 the cornerstone of a wholesome home experience, and our Activities Coordinators are always putting their creative minds to the test by organising new and exciting social events for residents to partake in. Of course, we take into account the likes and dislikes of those we support, so if someone doesn’t feel like trying something new, there will always be something on offer to reflect their personal interests. For the people who may just prefer some peace and quiet instead, we also offer one-to-one time that can be enjoyed with a nice cup of coffee or just a simple chat – whatever they desire.
Kay Boland
Hi, my name is Kay and I’m the Activities Lead for all things ‘Life Enrichment’ at Glebefields care home in Drayton, Banbury.
Throughout my career within the care industry, I have thrived o the many challenges presented and developed immense satisfaction through enabling others. As an activities coordinator, I act with integrity and always ensure that I place residents at the heart of what I do. I work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team to help create and maintain a robust service. I am committed to my personal and professional development which aligns Health and Social Care core values, providing diversity, empowerment, equality and independence for all residents.
Making links with local groups and organisations to ensure our residents remain part of the local community is a key part of my role, if you would like to make contact with me and our residents, please feel free to call me on 01733 246840 or drop me an email Glebefields.activities@barchester.com
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 Glebefields Care Home
PAT Dog 'Isla' Visits
Cutie PAT dog 'Isla' always puts a smile on our residents faces. She loves lots of cuddles and happy to let you stroke her whether you’re passing in the corridor, or on a visit to your room Isla really enjoys a fuss. She's genuinely one of our favourite guests at Glebefields.
Egg-citing Easter Celebrations
Staff, residents and guests at Barchester’s Glebefields care home, in Drayton Village, Banbury, celebrated Easter with a lovely Easter lunch and some Easter activities.
Glebefields residents have enjoyed an eggs-tensive range of Easter activities, from mindfulness colouring to creating Easter decorations to brighten the dining room and to have a wonderful Easter Celebration.
We received wonderful plants from the Local Lay Minister; Lindy Bridgeman from St Peter Church, Drayton Ironstone Benefice Oxfordshire as a token of love for our residents on the occasion of Easter.
General Manager, Nisha Shaji said: “As always, we’ve all been looking forward to Easter. It’s such a nice time of the year where residents love to meet their family and get some tasty Easter Eggs".
We had a tremendous fun-filled day. Residents Bert, Ivy, Marlene, Pam, Helen Christine and Edith all commented: “We are happy to be a part of Easter Celebration and thankful to Glebefields for the Easter egg and the Church for such a lovely flower plant.
Easter Wreath and Mass
Our residents had a wonderful time helping to decorate the home and dining hall for our Easter Sunday lunch. With pretty pussy willow table displays and hand drawn and crafted Happy Easter wreaths and egg trees.
They wrote personal messages on egg shapes to show everyone what they are most proud of and share good wishes with one another.
Ivy, Sheila,Barry,Tom and Bert enjoyed clicking pics with the decorations. We had a wonderful Easter Service and Hymns from David the Village Church Warden. All the residents enjoyed and were happy to be part of the service.
Egg-citing Donation
We would like to thank Co-operative food Middleton road Banbury who has done a kind donation for our residents on the occasion of Easter. Our Activity Coordinator Kay collected the donation from the shop.Residents were happy and enjoyed the Easter Egg chocolates and other chocolates.
Employee of the Month - March 2023
Glebefields care home residents and colleagues wish to congratulate Admin Assistant and Home Receptionist; Dinesh Kumar on receiving Employee of the Month.
Dinesh has been nominated by his colleagues, and the residents for having such a welcoming attitude, being full of motivation and always ready to go the extra mile!
Home Manager; Nisha said, "Dinesh is generally the first person you will meet as you enter our beautiful home, he always greats our guests with a smile before offering to make you a cup of tea, or coffee accompanied by a freshly made slice of cake! We hope he enjoys spending his £25 voucher and the yummy chocolate egg over the Easter break".
Thank you Dinesh for your continued hard work and dedication to the Glebefields family.
You too have the opportunity to join the fantastic team here at Glebefields care home in Drayton, Banbury. We’re currently recruiting for a number of roles. Please follow the link to find out more and apply today.
https://jobs.barchester.com/job-search/?JobTitle=&City=OX15+6EH
Bonny Bonnets!
The creation of an Easter bonnet is a fun way to keep up the Christian tradition of wearing new clothes at Easter, in harmony with the renewal of the year and the promise of spiritual renewal and redemption. Our residents just loved creating their very own bonnets and wearing them with pride over the weekend.
Our in-home Easter bonnet making competition was won by the joint 'choctastic' efforts of Ivy and Marlene... simply yummy!
