Activities at Tandridge Heights 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 qualified and dedicated activities staff plan and implement all activities within the home. We try our best to arrange activities that reflect our residents interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can. We try to keep our residents active and happy.
Our activities include trips to garden centres, pubs, the cinema or the local theatre. We have many fun games like carpet bowls, Play Your Cards Right or armchair exercises. There are many musical events, singalongs, garden parties and tea parties for everyone to enjoy as well!
Kelly Sherwin
I started at Tandridge Heights in 2020. Previous to this, I have been working as a carer sine 2010, which has helped me to understand the needs, wants and the individuality of all of our residents.
My main responsibility is provide a varied and engaging activities schedule every day for our residents; this helps to keep them involved in social and uplifting activities. We love to have parties to celebrate birthdays, national days and special occasions.
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 Tandridge Heights Care Home
Art and Craft Therapy!
Residents at Tandridge Heights recently enjoyed a relaxing afternoon of art and craft therapy.
There was a selection of materials available and residents chose what music they wished to listen to while creating. The general consensus was relaxing spa music and beautiful products were produced.
Resident, Billy, really concentrated on the details of her design and John was over the moon with his finished result. We all had a very calming and creative afternoon.
Trip to Local Morrisons
At Tandridge Heights, we understand the importance of our local community to our residents and for them to be able to still facilitate this.
On a chilly morning, we ventured out to our local Morrisons in Oxted. We all enjoyed a delicious hot chocolate while sharing stories and memories.
We had a great time chatting the morning away. Resident Dolly said it was the perfect thing for a chilly morning, and she could not wait to tell her daughter what a great time she had.
A visit from Elvis!
Tandridge Heights care home in Oxted was transformed into Graceland to mark what would have been Elvis Presley’s 90th birthday on 8 January.
General Manager, Camille Corbett, said: “Lots of our residents are big Elvis fans and love his music. We’ve had a fantastic day listening to all his hits, finding out about his early life and what influenced him and watching old Elvis movies. He was such an incredible talent. This afternoon we had an Elvis quiz. It was amazing how many songs he recorded. We all surprised ourselves by how many we remembered!”
Mary, a resident, said: “I loved Elvis growing up. Listening to all his old hits has brought back so many memories. We’ve all had a brilliant time reminiscing about our dance hall days!”
Christmas day at Tandridge Heights!
Christmas spirit was in full force at Tandridge Heights on Christmas Day. Residents gathered in the lounge for Bucks Fizz and a natter while they waited for a surprise visitor.
Santa arrived with his elf helper Kelly (Senior Activity Coordinator) and surprised residents with an array of well thought out meaningful gifts, they then moved around the home making sure all received their special treat.
Residents and families were treated to a delicious traditional Christmas dinner cooked by our chef Moses, followed by watching the Kings Speech.
Families and friends joined the celebrations and a merry time was had by all.
Christmas Party Celebrations
Tandridge Heights residents caught the festive spirit early at their respective Christmas party celebrations.
We started off with a bang with our memory floor residents who enjoyed being serenaded by the hugely talented Andy Mace. There was singing and dancing galore alongside a lovely buffet prepared by our head chef Mel.
Resident Bill said ‘I have had the best night, I didn’t think I could dance anymore so it was lovely to have a turn around the floor with Kerry (Activities assistant)’. Performer Andy remembered resident Mena from a previous visit so she was delighted to have a personal song sung to her and a dance with Andy. Mena said ‘Andy is the best, I have had a great time and do not want the night to end!'
The party continued the next night for residents on Woodland Way. Mel and her elves worked their magic again and residents and families were delighted to listen to a performance by harpist Mark Levin. Resident Anne-Marie was overjoyed to be joined by her Children, Grandchildren and Great-Grandchildren.
She said, ‘I am so lucky to be here and still be able to have all my family join, thank you!’
Resident Kitty said, ‘what a great night, the music and food were fantastic with amazing company, what a triumph’.
Sinatra Came to Visit
Residents at Tandridge Heights were delighted to welcome Ol' Blue Eyes for a festive sing along.
Paul from Sugartown Productions spent the afternoon as Frank Sinatra and performed a fabulous Christmas singalong for our residents.
Mary, a resident at Tandridge Heights was completely star struck and said "What an amazing afternoon, you would think that Sinatra himself was in the room singing to us!"
December marks Frank Sinatra's Birthday and what better way to celebrate than reminiscing and singing along to Sinatra's classics.
