Activities at Westergate House 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 team are great at building the activities programme around the likes and interests of the people we care for. Ensuring that our social events offer fun and adventure is part of the ethos of our home; it’s important that those we support can enjoy an active and social lifestyle. Of course, there will always be those who prefer peace and quiet, and in these instances, a cup of tea and a chat are always welcomed.
Lee Austin
My name is Lee and I am the Head of Lifestyle here at Westergate House.
I support our residents daily to do the things they enjoy and it is extremely important to me that we are offering a premium and person centred service to each resident. I support our residents on a daily basis by providing meaningful and quality activities either in groups or on a 1:1 basis, to help encourage and build confidence while creating an enjoyable environment for everyone. Westergate House is the home of our residents, we as staff are working in it, so it is extremely important to me that we are respectful of that, while offering a premium and person centred service to each and every resident.
I am a trained actor and professional vocalist and not shy in making a fool of myself. If I do that every day to put a smile on our residents faces then I’m happy I have played my part, along with the rest of the amazing team, to brightening their day. If you hear someone singing along the corridor or see them dancing in the lounges, it will probably be me.
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 Westergate House Care Home
Leap Year Pamper Day
We took full advantage of the extra day in February, celebrating the leap year with a pampering session for of our residents. In the morning we had exercise classes throughout the home which got everyone motivated and full of energy for the day. In the afternoon we welcomed a new singer, who performed a brilliant afternoon’s cabaret in one of our Memory Lane Communities with residents and entire staff team dancing away. We are entering March in full swing here and we look forward to the fun and laughter in the month ahead.
Live Virtual Bingo Bonanza
Barchester Healthcare host company-wide ‘Live Virtual Event’s’ on a regular basis for everyone to participate and get involved in, seeing experts in their field talk about times in history, specific events or even guided tours through locations in the UK. These events are so informative and very well produced to provide the right amount of information and visual understanding for our residents. This week, we took part in the Barchester Live Event of Bingo Bonanza!! Our residents at Westergate House went head to head with over 250 Barchester Homes across the country to see who would be winners. Unfortunately we didn’t have any winners through the main games here at Westergate House although we did play on till we had a Full House and our winner who received a lovely box of chocolates. Great fun was had by all and we look forward to what the next virtual event.
Creativity, Exercise and Fun for the wellbeing of everyone.
Another fun packed busy week here at Westergate House, full of creativity, exercise and fun to stimulate the mind and energise the body.
We continue our wonderful ‘Doodling Workshop’ with the lovely Catherine, a daughter of one of our residents, who helped resident’s in the House community go wild and create anything they wanted on slate hearts and wooden discs, the results were amazing. Meanwhile, in our Memory Lane community, we were busy making some lovely flower arrangements, creating centre pieces for our dining tables as well as displays on cards. We saw the amazing Mitchell Armstrong entertaining us, raising the roof with some fantastic sing-along classics. There has also been some healthy competition between residents and carers during our games afternoon with Table Tennis, Darts and Giant Snakes and Ladders.
Food, Food, Glorious Food!
Here at Westergate we pride ourselves on our ‘dining experience’; and want to give a big shout out to our Head Chef Chris and his amazing team in the kitchen.
Not only do they produce excellent tasty three course meals throughout the day, including a bitesize menu and stunning nutritious beverage trolleys for our residents, we also cater for a host of special events each month. This month included a number of special lunches for resident’s and their families, waited on in our bistro and a ‘life celebration’, for 30 guests; you can see from the pictures that the culinary delights were simply stunning.
All that hard work going on behind the scenes just shows the care and quality of service that comes from every department and team member here at Westergate House.
Merry Christmas!
Wishing all of amazing residents, family, friends and fantastic staff team here at Westergate House a very Merry Christmas. Santa made a special trip to visit us Christmas morning, delivering bespoke presents to all of our residents, his sleigh was certainly loaded. Our tables were set beautifully for our Christmas Day Festive Feast with the addition of handmade centre pieces created by our residents. Festive Fun and merriment was had by everyone and everybody enjoyed the Kings first Christmas speech.
Festive Entertainment Galore
Our fun packed daily Christmas Countdown calendar continues this week at Westergate House, with everyone getting in the Christmas spirit. The stars of the show were without a doubt the ‘Dizzy Ducklings Pre-School’, who joined us to sing their nativity songs; a definite ‘golden buzzer’ with our residents. Tish, pictured with the Dizzy Ducklings trained to be a teacher and previously taught reception class and was in her element. We didn’t stop there, ‘oh no we didn’t, we also had the Aldingbourne Primary School performing Christmas classics for us all to enjoy and the Bognor Regis Bell Ringers who treated us to an amazing festive musical treat for everyone to enjoy. Christmas is certainly full steam ahead.
