Activities at Oaklands Care Home

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.

As we took time to remember the Brave soldiers that fought and gave their lives for us we were treated to a very special drive by from Bottisham air museum with their military vehicle’s and personal all dressed up and gave us a little parade, it gave us an opportunity to reminisce about stories we had shared amongst our families. Later that day we enjoyed a cuppa with friends and read through the oomph workbooks, giving us more opportunity to remember loved ones.

Moorea has wished for a punch and Judy show and at the last couple of residents meeting she has suggested this ,so with a lot of phone calls and emails we made that happen. We were joined by the punch and Judy show along with the vintage ice cream bike and cloud 9 choir for a fabulous family afternoon, it didn’t all quite go to plan but we adapted to the weather conditions as the afternoon went on. We enjoyed a 30 minute show with audience participation and then we learnt about the puppets and some history behind it all. Families were then able to move outside as the sun had finally come out from behind the clouds(maybe the sun is scared of puppets!!)and we were treated to some wonderful singing in our courtyard as we enjoyed delicious ice-cream. Wonderful afternoon all in all.