Activities at Orchard House 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!
Katalin Schlepp
Hello, I’m Katie Schlepp, and my job as the Head of Lifestyle is more than a career; it’s my passion. Every day, I have the pleasure of enhancing lives and creating moments of joy for our residents. It’s a privilege to be a part of this community where we celebrate life in all its richness, from organizing engaging activities to fostering connections and ensuring our residents well-being, I’m dedicated to making every day extraordinary. Our residents happiness and comfort are what drive me, and I’m committed to ensuring that your time at Orchard House is nothing short of wonderful.
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 Orchard House Care Home
Honnor & Jeffrey Garden Centre
We took a nice trip to Lake to visit the Honnor and Jeffery’s garden centre. Residents, staff and our volunteers enjoyed socialising whilst we went around the shop as some residents wanted to look at the flowers and others wanted to see the amazing fishes they have their.
We then stop at the café and residents enjoyed picking their cake and drink whilst we all socialised around the table. Residents expressed to the staff when we got back that they really enjoyed visiting the garden centre.
We are now 10-60-60 accredited
Orchard House is delighted to have achieved accreditation at foundation level for a new standard of dementia care developed by dementia care specialists at Barchester Healthcare.
The 10-60-06 dementia programme was developed and trialled by the dementia team at Barchester Healthcare, a care provider with over 200 homes across the country. It will replace the company’s current dementia care programme in order to ensure the care services provided Barchester’s Memory Lane communities for people living with dementia are the best in the sector.
Orchard House has implemented significant improvements to the personalised dementia care services they offer and the way that staff are trained to better understand what it means to be living with dementia.
The home was visited after they had implemented the new foundation programme by Barchester’s Dementia Care Specialist for the region, Phil Harper along with Deputy Director of Dementia Care, Jason Corrigan who found the home had met all the standards within the foundation programme and announced that the home will now move forward towards the ‘gold standard’ of the 10-60-06 accreditation.
Snoezelen Activity
Every Thursday we have a morning activity called ‘Snoezelen’ where mostly the ladies come along to pick what colour they would like their nails painted that day and enjoy chatting within the group whilst music is being played in the background.
Becky who is the Head Nurse of Bluebell unit, also does aromatherapy here, which the ladies and gentleman enjoy having, a relaxing massage to start their day off.
Knit & Knatter Club
Orchard House have started up a Knit & Natter Club, which has been going very well! Residents have enjoyed doing this, and loved ones have also gotten involved.
Christmas Party
We had our big Christmas party at Orchard house! Residents and family couldn’t stop saying what a great afternoon it was. There was lots of laughter and cheer around the room. We even had a visit from Santa.
Arreton Primary School Visits the Home
Orchard House had the joys of Arreton primary school children coming in to sing in their choir and do bell ringing for everyone. What a lovely afternoon it was. The residents couldn’t stop saying how great the children were and how lovely it was to see them come in to visit everyone.
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.
