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
Reading Buddies
Every Wednesday we are visited by children from Swaffham prior primary school who come to read with the residents, this is a great opportunity for the generations to mix, share stories and build friendships.
Music Sessions
We have been enjoying the glorious weather we have been having whilst taking our activities outside. We held a Namaste music session in the courtyard, residents participated in playing music and took the opportunity to chat with residents from a different community.
Summer Fete
We recently held our summer fete joint with Hilton Park, it was our first since covid and what a wonderful afternoon it was, we had a circus theme with entertainers performing for us and even teaching our families and friend’s as we watched on. We had the opportunity to buy beautiful items from local stall holders and enjoy an ice cream or two.
Jubilee Celebrations
Wow what a fabulous few days we have had celebrating the queens platinum jubilee, also the preparations have been fun and a trip to a local primary school to watch their end of term jubilee celebrations. We have baked crown cookies, flower arrange, enjoyed art therapy colouring pictures of the queen ,our resident choir performed to family and we rounded the weekend up with party where we sang and dance to Alex the accordion players fantastic music medley’s and followed by a street party style lunch with a great selection of homemade picnic treats from our in-house chef and kitchen team.
Easter
Lots of great fun from Easter period with cookery club, oomph newsletters, and Easter decorating and social time with friends, we even involved the staff with Easter quizzes.
Spring has Arrived!
Our residents at Oaklands had a wonderful time planting bulbs in time for spring, after we finished this we went for a sunny walk in the garden and looked at all of the blossoming flowers.
