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
Residents and School Children celebrate World Book Day
Bookshelves are bulging at Sherwood Lodge where book worm residents were keen to get involved in World Book Day. We welcomed children from our local school, Sherwood Primary school to mark the occasion.
Staff and residents at Sherwood Lodge care home decided to invite the local school children along for the afternoon. Everyone got involved by dressing up as characters from their favourite books and reading excerpts to each other. It was wonderful to see the variety of books that everyone was reading, and to listen to all the different topics being discussed.
Emma Powers, the Activities Co-ordinator at the home, commented: “Our residents all love to read and to talk about their favourite books so World Book Day is a fantastic opportunity for us all to spend the afternoon with our noses in our favourite books. Having the children come to visit us made it even more fun, we all loved seeing their costumes.”
Tracy Lyons General Manager, dressed as Cruella de Vil said, “It has been a brilliant afternoon and we have all enjoyed swapping our must-reads. Our residents love getting lost in a good book so they very much enjoyed reading excerpts from their favourite novels and discussing what they love about them. There are so many wonderful books to discover, everyone enjoyed finding out about new titles to put on their reading lists.”
St David's Day
March the 1st is St David's Day celebration of St David's Day ,we're we celebrate the whole of Wales, from music food and daffodils.
Here at Sherwood Lodge we have been enjoying making Welsh cakes and eating them with a cup of tea also listening to Tom Jones and having a dance, we also have been up to arts and crafts making Daffodils.
Sherwood Lodge leaps for joy!
Happy Leap Year day from all of us here at Sherwood Lodge. A leap year gives us that extra day to dream and to achieve and make a leap towards our goals. Here at the home all of our colleagues got together to leap for joy as we marked the occasion. A leap day exists to ensure our calendars align with Earth’s orbit, which in turn ensures our calendars aligns with seasons.
Valentines Day
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
We’ve been feeling the love,
We hope you have too
Happy Valentine’s Day to all our families and friends.
We have embraced the celebration of love at our lovely decorated home today. Residents have enjoyed a Valentines themed lunch and even decorated their own baked love heart biscuits.
One of our married couples at the home, Tony and Doreen celebrated Valentines with a candle lit dinner complete with roses.
Tony and Doreen have been married for over 60 years and live together in our home. A love made to last
Pancake day
We have had a staff competition at Sherwood Lodge today judged by some of our lovely residents, who can flip the best pancake? We had four staff who stepped up to the challenge, one from each department, Liam our chef, Jodie our care assistant, Susan our housekeeper and Louise our admin assistant. They all tried their best but there can only be one winner ,Congratulations to admin assistant Louise.
Blooming Fun
Fun at Sherwood Lodge enabling residents to be creative and use their imagination, it also encourages use of fingers and hands and is a great stress reliever,promoting calm. The residents had such a good time and are very proud of the outcome.
