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
Barchester's Easter Cake Competition
We had such great fun talking about our Easter cake competition entry and then the real fun began when we made our cake. Resident’s enjoyed making the cake but the most fun was decorating the cake with lots of chocolate.
Jackie’s idea was for the Easter bunny to be travelling like father Christmas to deliver goodies to the children.
Health and Wellbeing Day
We held a health and being day for our staff ,residents, families and the wider community.
We enjoyed hand massages and full relaxation ,we sampled healthy snacks made by our in house chefs which were delicious and we had great fun with balloon games, tin can alley games and so much more
Singing and Dancing
Here at Oaklands we love nothing more than a sing and a dance and that can be from in our wheelchairs too as Diane shows with her hand Jives.
Dancing is great exercise whilst having great fun too and singing is fabulous for the soul and our well-being.
Valentine's Celebrations
Here at Oaklands, we enjoyed a great day dressing up in pink feather boas, hats and talking about all the things we love! Sharing time with family and friends was at the top of the list!
Community Carers Cafe
We hold a monthly community café for carers within our home and community. For December, we decided to make this a special one with our choir teacher coming in. We sang carols and had a thoroughly enjoyable time. The cafes are an opportunity for carers to meet other carers, share story’s, gain support, but also to ask advice from our experienced team and dementia champion Jo.
Farewell Reverand
We sadly said Farwell to our Reverend Sue Giles last week who has been visiting us for over 10 years, with monthly communion visits, one to one’s room visits and every Christmas eve coming along with a group of local parishioners to sing carols for us. Sue is a huge part of our community at Oaklands and we will miss her very much but wish her a peaceful and relaxing retirement in York.
Upcoming events
Countdown to Christmas
Take a look at all of the wonderful festive events and activities throughout December. Please feel free to join our celebrations. Contacts us for more information.
