Activities at Oaklands Care Home

We held our very own Olympic games within the home, running over the course of 3 days involving a variety of games being played and a quiz to round it off. We adapted the games to allow for all residents to take part whether they were mobile or cared for in bed, and for those less physically minded they could join in with the quiz to help earn points for their team. The aim was for each of our three community’s to win as many points as they can and then we finished the event with a closing ceremony announcing the winners and giving the winning team a gold medal and a Kevin the carrot soft toy for them to display with pride.

Our games were either closely matched to the Olympics with javelin game and discuss or a take on the event with our water feature being hook a duck, there was such a buzz about the home ,with lots of laughter and competitiveness coming out in mainly relatives families!!!

Our winning team was announced as our Elms community, big well done to all that took part and see you again in 4 years’ time.

We have been so lucky over the last few months with extremely talented friends of our care home donating us knitted items from worry worms and fiddle mitts to a whole fruit set but our most recent donation was a lovely lady called Margaret who buys dolls and then knits them two outfits each and she likes to donate to care homes, so when I received these 5 beautiful baby’s with outfits all made to measure it was wonderful and I knew straight away my residents would love them and take care of them and that’s just what has happened .Margaret was thrilled to see the joy her hard work had given our residents and she is currently busy knitting us two more for two of our ladies to adopt and love. Doll therapy is great for improving a residents well-being and their ability to communicate, it gives them comfort too. Thank-you so much.

We held our Teddy bears picnic to celebrate national picnic month. We invited the community to join us for an afternoon of fun with singing from the fabulous Kirsty Wright and Teddys in the tree for the children to spot and match the numbers up and eventually win and take home. Kirsty sang lots of engaging songs for all ages and introduced us to a new song which was loved by the younger generation “Baby shark” it caused some funny looks amongst the older generation, but we all got stuck in and learnt some new moves.

Residents loved watching the children play with their teddies and bubbles and the great imagination of Rays grandchildren who built wooden tepees and camp fires from sticks around the woods.

We look forward to holding the event again next year.

We all had a fabulous afternoon at our summer fete.

A massive thank you firstly to our residents and relatives for always supporting us and secondly to all the entertainers and stall holders for helping make the afternoon happen for our residents.

We enjoyed music from Kirsty and the Wicken Brass Band and once again our super raffle ticket caller Tyson who did a great job. 

At Oaklands we love opening our home up and hosting events that friends and family can join us for. Shared experiences are the best experiences and we ensure that our residents remain connected with their loved ones whilst they live with us. 

We started our Wimbledon fever with some of our own games using a balloon and we had such great fun. It all started friendly but the competitive side gradually came out and it was women against men at one point with the men being outnumbered by the women with the cheering each other on. Residents went on to enjoy watching the matches at Wimbledon.

Ray has always loved washing his cars and this would be a weekly activity while he was at home and he and his wife Julie were talking about this one day  so the activity team decided to make this happen and so Ray was tasked to clean the mini bus and what a fabulous job he done whilst having great fun, every time he needed moving he would say “move me maestro “

Ray talked Anna through the process and that you should start at the top and work your way down and he rinsed off the soap and then he said and “really we should polish now” but the weather wasn’t on our side so next time we will do a proper job.