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.
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
Picnic and Entertainment
We enjoyed a wonderful family picnic afternoon where we were treated to music from Wicken brass band and Cloud 9 choir, family and friends enjoyed picnics and ice creams brought to us from JJs vintage ice creams, it was a wonderful afternoon where staff,residents,family and friends all came together to share joy and happiness.
Barchester Care Awards 2023 - Divisional Winner!
We're so happy to announce that Jo Lawn has been crowned Dementia Care Champion for the Central Division in the Barchester Care Awards 2023 and is through to the national round of judging.
The Barchester Care Awards celebrate the staff who go the extra mile for the benefit of the 13,000 residents living in Barchester’s 252 care homes and private hospitals across the country. Categories range from ‘Registered Nurse of the Year’ and ‘Carer of the Year’ to ‘Dementia Care Champion’ and ‘Activities Coordinator of the Year’.
International yoga day celebrated on Summer solstice
We enjoyed a session from Natasha who has trained in India for a month to learn the correct techniques and she delivered a truly beautiful session. Residents were engrossed with the chanting and the breathing and then the stretches ,they all had a wonderful time and have asked for it again, some even commented on how they felt more flexible afterwards.
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.
