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
Paint and Plonk
An evening activity where our residents got to enjoy a nice glass of wine and get creative with the paint brushes, some were more interested in the wine but it was a lovely social evening with chatting and laughter.
Stay and play session
We at Oaklands have launched a stay and play session which was amazing watching the different generation’s engaging in such a positive way, we had Fran 3 years old reading the Gruffalo to Judy who is 80 years young and the delight this gave them both was heart-warming. Judy comments”im amazed how well she can read at her age, it was fantastic, such a clever thing”
And then we have the cheeky girls eating snacks together, both of kindred spirits!! This is a permanent activity now at Oaklands running every other Thursday morning.
The Oaklands Choir
Weekly choir sessions take place every Tuesday and its great fun, residents enjoy singing the same songs from memory and then we add themed ones in to do with the seasons which residents love. We have a few poems to and residents share their favourite songs and poems, this is a great session for the soul.
Gardening Club
Gardening club is well under way making preparations for our courtyards this summer, with some weeding taking place, seeds been potted and bird houses been painted, Residents enjoy seeing their hard work in the gardens as we sit and replace outside with cold drinks on the hot days.
Coronation Celebrations
Wow what a fabulous few days we had celebrating the Kings coronation, with royal quizzes, trips out to celebrate the community’s events and even a visit from the King of rock and roll, Elvis. Prior to the event we enjoyed making decorations to decorate our home.
Celebrating Eid Mubarak
We enjoyed celebrating Eid Mubarak with Ifte our resident on our Willow community and his friends. It was an honour to share the celebrations with Ifte as unfortunately his family were unable to. We enjoyed the decorations and bright flower arrangements made the day before by the residents and most of all the sweet treats, we listened to traditional music and Iftes friends enjoyed the Eid quiz and Oomph word scrabble as it gave them chance to learn new facts. Resident Jackie said: “I like learning new things even at my ripe old age”. A great afternoon was had by all exploring a friends cultural celebrations.
