Activities at Sherwood Lodge Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
Our Activities Coordinator is constantly striving to mentally and physically stimulate those we support by organising group and individual activities for anyone and everyone to participate in. We have regular outings in the mini bus to nearby places of interest including local garden centres and parks as well as musicians and entertainers. We also hold bingo evenings which are helped out by our residents families. We also have a local pub nearby which the residents enjoy visiting from time to time for a spot of lunch or sitting in the gardens in the summer time. We try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests as best is possible. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.
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 Sherwood Lodge Care Home
Living Eggs
Here at Sherwood Lodge Residents family friends and staff have all been looking after the living eggs it has been a joy to all the whole home, and so much fun to see life grow and how happy it has made everyone at Sherwood lodge feel ,Easter has been so much fun from the church services to the Easter bunny cake making and the chicks thanks to every one for all their help in making this time magical.
G Fitness with Angelica
We have had our monthly well-being fitness class this afternoon with Angelica from G Fitness.
Every month this exercise class is attended by residents who love to take part and exercise to music.
It boosts their wellbeing , self-esteem, lifts their mood and builds their confidence as well as boosting their physical health.
The exercises promote coordination of the limbs and increase's their agility benefiting conditions such as arthritis.
Thank you Angelica for providing such an important class each month.
Decorating the May Pole
Residents have started to prepare our May Pole for decoration.
The Maypole dance is a ceremonial folk dance performed around a tall pole garlanded with greenery or flowers and often hung with ribbons that are woven into complex patterns by the dancers.
The home staff will be performing a Maypole dance for our residents on May Day
Easter Cake Competition
Residents at Sherwood Lodge have seen the poster and heard about the cake competition. They have all expressed an interest to take part, we have held a meeting to discuss ideas and how to make the cake.
Residents said they would like to make a big egg, with a smaller egg inside, with chicks in and grass around it.
We have been out to the shops to get all the ingredients, Margaret said she would like it to be very colourful, and Pauline said she can’t wait to make the chicks.
Day 1 of the build:
Make 3 sponges wait to cool and stack together with butter cream than cut to shape, make the jelly.
Day 2:
Decorate the egg with butter cream and make chicks had the jelly.
Hard work has played off with a lot of fun, residents said they are so pleased with the outcome and can’t wait for the results.
A Rainbow of Hands
Rainbows are a universal symbol of love, hope, happiness and acceptance.
Our residents and staff have got crafty and we have made rainbow of our own. Not just a rainbow, but a rainbow of all our hands together.
Helping hands, caring hands, friendship hands, loving hands, holding each other's hands
Each hand has the residents and staff's name on it, showing our unity together as a home.
We have displayed our Sherwood Lodge family rainbow of hands on our entrance and our lovely Doris could not wait to have her picture taken next to it to share with you all.
Pet Therapy
The pitter patter of tiny paws and the wag of a tail never fails to bring happiness and joy to our home and our residents
We had another pet therapy session yesterday from the lovely and very adorable Yorkshire terrier Leo.
Leo has become a bit of a star at our home. His owner Martin brings him to see our residents every month for lots of cuddles and our residents really love his visits.
Residents love feeding Leo his favourite snacks. He is quite the diva as his favourite snack is carrot battens.
Lovely conversations were had about residents past family pets.
