Activities at Oaklands Care Home
Our home is always full of life, and we can thank our wonderful Activities Coordinators for this. Dedication to creating a unique and interesting activities programme is what sets us apart from other homes. We always take into consideration that some people would prefer to pursue their own interests, which is why our team strive to incorporative activities that cater to a wide range of tastes and hobbies. Our trips out are always fun and exciting as well, and residents are guaranteed to return with stories to tell their loved ones!
Anna Bate & Jo Lawn
Anna is our Activity Lead. She started working at Barchester over 14 years ago at our sister home Hilton Park. Having built strong relationships with staff, residents and families, Anna brings lots of fun to our home. Anna loves to sing, dance and laugh and generally brings oodles of joy to ours days.
Working alongside Anna is Jo who started her career here at Oaklands as a carer on Elms community in 2014 developing a passion for dementia care and completing her social care N+VQ Levels 2 and 3. Jo Joined the activity team 3 years ago and has since become the homes dementia champion, championing for a better lifestyle for our resident through staff training and regular audits.
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 Oaklands Care Home
Visit from Bambi
We were fortunate to have Bambi the coachhorse visit us at this special time of the year dressed in her festive outfit to bring pure joy to our residents, as you can see from the photos Bambi is able to go everywhere into rooms for our residents that are cared for in bed and even in the lift to visits residents living upstairs.
Bambi brightens up everyone’s day: residents, families and staff.
Jane has always had horses from being a child and found it amazing that Bambi was inside and she gave her a very good pat and stroke.
We look forward to seeing Bambi in the new year and wonder what colour her hooves will be!!!
Annual Christmas Fayre
We held our annual Christmas fayre last Friday evening enjoying local stall holders and the chance to shop with our loved ones.
We were joined at the end of the evening with the Bottisham Scouts who sang some of their traditional songs and some beautiful carols to get us in the Christmas spirit.
Busy Boards
A new favourite at Oaklands which has proven popular with our gentlemen is the busy boards giving them an opportunity to be busy whilst still being manly.
The boards offer a variety of interactive buttons, switches, lights and screws.
The resident has to use their hand eye co-ordination to screw in screws and tighten the bolts and turn the keys and it has given our gentleman great satisfaction whilst having fun and keeping busy.
Residents Wish
Here at Oaklands, we try to make our residents wishes come true no matter how big or small.
Jackie has always loved Cliff Richard and asked if we could celebrate his birthday, so that’s what we done, the day before we gathered pictures together and talked about him and Jackie helped make a picture board which was displayed in her lounge the whole of his birthday.
And on the day we enjoyed watching him in concert via a DVD and ate cake, sang Happy birthday then the party started and Jackie was up on her feet dancing with her friends enjoying his music.
A great day was had by all.
Christmas cake making
We have begun the Christmas festivities with starting to make our Christmas cakes here at Oaklands, we have made no less than 5 cakes, one for each of our community’s, one for our neighbours and one for our Christmas fair.
We were delighted that everyone who passed by said how wonderful the smells were that we were creating from the whiskey the fruit was soaked in to the cherries we were chopping and orange zest. As you can see it was a real team effort with everyone helping and helping each other when tasks were challenging single handed .The conversations were flowing about recipes our granny’s would do, how they would do and then the all important how we decorate our cakes!!
That will be in the next few weeks when we reveal our decorated cakes.
Paint and Plonk!
Our most recent paint and plonk session was Autumn themed and to say the red wine was enjoyed, would be an understatement, we will definitely be buying that red wine again!!
Residents can enjoy a tipple and a chance to chat and relax whilst creating a piece of art work. Some just join for the wine and company and that's just perfect! Some residents even go on to create masterpieces that we are then able to display within the home for everyone to enjoy.
Bring on the next one!
