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
HRH Fruit Majestic Cake
To mark the Queen’s official birthday the Barchester hospitality and life enrichment teams invited our homes to design, bake and decorate a cake (or cakes) fit for the Queen to celebrate on Saturday 13th June. The winning entry will receive £250 Bidfood vouchers to spend as they choose!
The residents and the activities team at Glebefields got their creative cookery heads on to share ideas and recipes from their younger days. All agreed that the Queen would love a rich fruit cake.
Using Earl Grey tea to soak the mixed dried fruit, with a touch of Cinnamon as a nod to the Commonwealth and stirred with birthday wishes and love they baked their best ‘Fruit Majestic’ cake before decorating with butter icing in Red, White & Blue for her Royal Highness.
We had enormous fun baking this delicious fruit cake and even more fun sitting together eating every slice with afternoon tea. We entered the competition and await to hear if we’ve won! We loved our creation so much we thought we’d share the recipe with everyone.
Celebrating Chinese New Year
Staff and residents welcomed in the Year of the Tiger with a day of celebrations and activities.
Inspired by Chinese culture and traditions, the home was decorated with hanging red lanterns and bunting. Residents learnt how to write their names in Chinese and the pronunciation of each; which was fun!
The hospitality team served an oriental feast for lunch and we delighted in reading the cryptic Fortune Cookie messages to one another.
Home Manager; Nisha said “We have had a brilliant day, the home looks absolutely wonderful decorated all in resident homemade red and we all had such fun finding out what animal we are, the associated traits and reading each other’s horoscopes. The residents loved dressing up and watching videos of traditional lion and dragon dances too.
Albert (Bert) Rowan a resident at Glebefields said: “I loved the music, the vibrant costumes and learning about the Chinese Zodiac animal traits. A person born in the Year of the Tiger is said to be fiery, passionate, daring and fearless. I find it fascinating to learn all about different traditions.”
Our varied life enrichment programme keeps residents active, and provides a daily choice of engaging physical, mental and spiritual activities tailored to residents’ interests and abilities.
Final Preparations for Chinese New Year
We're getting ready to launch our Chinese New Year celebrations this week, our residents have been making pom-poms and colourful pieces of art to decorate the home.
First Jigsaw of 2022
Paul has been keeping busy and completed his first jigsaw of 2022. He's such a puzzle master, steadily placing each piece day by day, we've all been mesmerised with its progression into this wonderful view of canoes on Moraine Lake in Alberta, Canada. The 1000 piece Christmas gift from his brother took him around 3 weeks to complete.
Well done Paul, it’s beautiful…on to the next
Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year 2022 starts on 1st February and our residents have been preparing some mindfulness art sessions. Taking time to concentrate each colour choice and keeping within the lines on of these intricate Chinese lantern posters which helped them feel calm and relaxed.
2022 is the ‘Year of the Tiger’
'Tigers are ‘courageous and active people who love a good challenge and adventure in life’ – sounds just like our residents.
No Bake Cakes
Whatever age you are, 'no bake' chocolate crispy cakes are always fun to make... and eat!
