Activities at Glebefields Care Home
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
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 Glebefields Care Home
The Hill Spring Fest
We enjoyed a super day at The Hill Community Centre's 'Spring Fest' on Thursday 14th April. The staff and residents of Glebefields Care Home provided the prizes for the Easter Bonnet competition.
All the attending children and families have a fun-filled time, with circus tricks and chasing the bunny around the field. It was smiles all around the whole day through.
We'd like to send a big thank you to the group leaders for our invite, and all the amazing children for taking part in the Easter Bonnet parade - You all looked fabulous!
Employee of the Month - March 2022
Glebefields care home residents and colleagues wish to congratulate Care Assistant; Nicola Maycock on receiving Employee of the Month for March 2022.
Nicola has been nominated by her colleagues, and the residents for her amazing work, delivering the very best care.
Home Manager; Nisha confirmed, "Nicola is such a lovely carer, always happy to support her colleagues and understands the individual needs of every resident living at Glebefields."
Well done Nicola, we all hope you enjoy your chocolates and voucher, and the well deserved Barchester accolade.
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
Egg-citing Community Egg Hunt
Staff, residents and guests at Barchester’s Glebefields care home, in Drayton Village, Banbury, celebrated Easter with an Easter Egg Hunt around the home gardens.
Glebefields residents have enjoyed an eggs-tensive range of Easter activities, from mindfulness colouring to creating Easter decorations to brighten the gardens and create holders for the hundreds of chocolate eggs hiding in the trees and tubs.
We received a wonderful donation of freshly made muffins from the Banbury based ‘Muffin Break’ shop in Castle Quay Shopping Centre, that added to the ice cream and home-bakes provided by the Glebefields hospitality team for all our guests to enjoy.
General Manager, Nisha Shaji said: “As always, we’ve all been looking forward to Easter. It’s such a nice time of the year and now our homes refurbishment is complete it was an eggs-cellent opportunity for us to invite the local community to view the home, meet the team and have super fun with the residents. It was so eggs-citing to have visitors, eggs-pecially seeing so many young ones having fun!
We had a tremendous fun-filled day. Residents Myrtle, Paul, Bert, Alvar and Edith all commented: “We’ve probably all eaten too much chocolate! It was wonderful to see so many new faces, we really enjoyed meeting all the children, and that naughty Easter Bunny.” AKA Senior Care Assistant; Prabhu.
Everyone at Glebefields wishes to thank the local community for making their day so special. We look forward to seeing you all again very soon.
Yummy Muffins for Easter
All at Glebefields care home would like to send a big ‘THANK YOU’ to Muffin Break UK for donating stacks of freshly made Easter Muffins for our guests to enjoy at the homes’ Easter Egg Hunt.
They looked, and tasted absolutely amazing!
What a treat for the Banbury community to have such a scrummy local shop to pop into for deliciously good food, baked fresh every day in-store. Muffin Break are passionate about sourcing only the best Arabica beans, to deliver the perfect coffee for the local community.
Meeting the Neigh-bours
Sunday was a fun day for our residents as they took the opportunity to step outside and enjoy the Spring sunshine and meet our next door neigh-bours!
Chef Andy fed the horses as Paul, Myrtle, Alvar and Bob watched on. It was a super day, one we hope we can repeat tomorrow as we hide lots of chocolate eggs and treats for all the visiting children to our Easter Egg Hunt from 2pm Tuesday 12th April.
Easter Arts & Crafts
Our residents enjoyed this week’s Arts & Crafts session as it saw them 'getting ready for Easter' and particularly the community Easter Egg Hunt scheduled for Tuesday 12th April.
We look forward to meeting you all at Glebefields from 2pm for fun and frolics around our grounds as you hunt for all those luscious chocolate eggs. No need to book, just follow the bunting and balloons, you might even catch the Easter bunny in action!
