Activities at Glebefields Care Home

Please join us in congratulating Registered Nurse, Devi Balasubramaniyan on receiving Glebefields ‘Employee of the Month’ for October 2022.

Devi was nominated by our residents, her colleagues and residents’ relatives because she is always so very kind, patience and works really hard and diligently.

We all hope Devi enjoys the £25 voucher and chocolates and hope this ‘Employee of the Month’ award goes some way towards showing how much Devi’s hard work is valued at Glebefields and within the wider Barchester family.

Monday's Halloween fun started with pumpkin carving and decoration, before we opened the doors to 'let the dogs in' for the Glebefields annual 'spooky Dog Show'.

We had pooches of all sizes join us, dressed as black bats to pumpkin inspired witches, the residents, staff and guests had a super time watching each dog and handler proudly parade up and down the 'cat' walk! 

They were all so good we just couldn't choose an outright winner, so every doggie got a prize rosette with goodie bags for all our wonderful guests.

Oomph! TV provides our residents with live exercise classes and activity sessions as well as videos from expert partners. All recorded for on demand playback.

This week our residents enjoyed a singalong dance session with 'Alan' that took them on a reminiscence journey back to their dance hall days. The care team had fun getting to know some fabulous strictly ballroom new moves!

World Pasta Day was brought into existence as part of the World Pasta Congress on the 25th of October in 1995. Experts from all over the world came together to discuss the glories of the noodle, with particular emphasis on the importance of spreading knowledge of the world’s panorama of pasta. This organization uses World Pasta Day to promote the eating of pasta, along with its cultural and culinary importance.

Here at Glebefields Carehome we celebrated the world pasta day in our own style. Residents participated and made different pasta flowers.Food days are simple and easy to celebrate, but they can come with a variety of layers as well. Look to these ideas for inspiration which our residents brought into place and celebrated their own way of World Pasta Day.

In celebration of ‘Diwali’ the Hindu festival of lights, Dinesh the homes Admin Assistant delighted everyone by wearing traditional dress to work and updating everyone on the history behind the festival.

Whilst listening to traditional music, our residents and visitoring friends enjoyed making patterned rangoli art and brightly coloured paper lanterns to signify the triumph of good over evil. Diwali honours Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, the lamps help Lakshmi find her way into people’s homes.

Nisha, General Manager at Glebefields, said: “To celebrate Diwali at the home was fantastic, the colourful glow of the lamps created a very wonderful atmosphere and our chef made the most delicious dishes – everyone had a fantastic time.”

On Friday 22 October 2021, we all embraced “wear it pink “day to help raise money for Breast Cancer Now. Our residents, and staff put on their favourite pink clothes and accessories to show their support for this wonderful campaign. We had fun making and decorating pink cakes for all to enjoy with afternoon tea and pink related word searches and quizzes.