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
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.
A trip to our local farm shop
We have regular trips out on our mini bus and we enjoy local farm shop trips, the cakes are delicious and we enjoy the scenery on the journey through the pretty villages spotting seasonal flowers. We took along our Volunteer Isabelle who had a lesson from Jackie on which vegetables are which, great to gain knowledge from our residents!
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.
