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
Christmas Crafting
Christmas Arts and Crafts at Glebefields. Many of our residents have enjoyed making and decorating their own individual wreaths.
Barchester has organised this festive workshop for our residents, they all had so much fun designing their wreaths that they will be able to display in their rooms.
Christmas Spirit at Glebefields
Our residents have been getting into the wonderful Christmas spirit and festivity by doing some arts and crafts.
Over the weekend our care assistant Snobia had organised a workshop for our residents, to make a wooden Christmas home for a little Santa and his snowman. Everyone enjoyed taking part; Muriel has knitted two little hats for our Santa and snowman. Paul and Alvar have joined in for the making of our Santa and Snowman, while Jean and Violet were helping decorate their little home.
We have been undergoing refurbishment for the last 7 months, the contractors are now like part of the team and kindly helped us with the making of the wooden box as they gave us pieces of wood and glued it together. So we want to thank WREN contractors for all their help!
Employee of the Month - October 2021
Glebefields care home residents and colleagues wish to congratulate Angie on receiving Employee of the Month for October 2021.
Angie is a star she always go out of her way to help everyone. She has helped out in the kitchen, no job is too big for her; she is appreciated by all the residents and team members.
General Manager, Nisha commented “You only need to ask Angie once and it’s done with a smile! She’s an essential part of the Glebefields team.” We all hope Angie enjoys her voucher and Barchester accolade, it’s very much deserved.
Christmas Jumper Day
Many of our staff have joined to raise money for charity by wearing a Christmas jumper to work.
It brought smiles to the residents seeing everyone in their wonderful outfits, even our resident Alvar joined in by wearing his festive jumper
Our residents and staff did an amazing job decorating our home to spread the Christmas Spirit Well done to you all !
Bonfire Arts & Crafts
Remember, remember the 5th of November! Our residents enjoyed a lovely arts & crafts session with vibrant paints they recreated firework scenes of fantastical colours. The afternoon’s cookery class had Paul and Myrtle decorating cupcakes for their friends to enjoy with a mug of hot chocolate and marsh mellows whilst everyone watched the night sky explosions of fireworks.
Diwali - Festival of Lights
The residents and staff at Glebefields joined together to celebrate Diwali the ‘Festival of Lights’ with colour and delicious food.
Many of our team, including home manager; Nisha wore their traditional dress and danced for our residents. Residents; Paul, Muriel, Marianne and Bob enjoyed painting posters and clay pots to decorate the home. Chef and the hospitality team excelled themselves producing a menu of Indian inspired foods.
Happy Diwali everyone!
Upcoming events
Community Games Afternoon
We're welcoming our local community, families and friends for a lovely weekly get-together. Please join us every Thursday from 14:00-15:30 for fun and games.
Community Knit & Natter
Please join us on the second Tuesday of every month 2pm - 4pm. Enjoy friendly company as you knit and natter over tea, coffee and cake!
Don't Dine Alone
We know meal times can be a lonely time for some people, that's why we're inviting local older people to join us for lunch every Wednesday 12.30-14.30pm, call now to book.
Community Scrabble Club
Join us every Thursday 11:00am - 12:30pm for a friendly game of Scrabble in a relaxed setting, come and test your word skills and make new friends.
