Activities at Westwood House Care Home
As Activity Coordinator at Westwood House I am fully committed to organising activities for all of the residents. This includes activities within the home such as reminiscence sessions, and planning events such as the Summer and Christmas parties. We have also provided some very successful trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and have monthly visits from entertainers and musicians. We are always encouraging local schools to get involved and have recently managed to get a local charity 'Spare tyre' working with us very successfully.
It is important to me that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their 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.
Liz Wickers
My name is Liz and I am the lifestyle coordinator at Westwood House. I have always lived and worked in Southwark and Lambeth boroughs. I spent 25 years within the education sector before deciding to try new roles. As well as teaching I have also had the privilege of being a personal carer in Dementia. I am so happy that I have been welcomed into the Westwood House family where I can continue to grow and develop.
I aim to offer a range of varied and tailored activities and group sessions that are meaningful to each of them. I am thrilled to be supporting the team in delivering fun, engaging and interesting activities for our residents.
I look forward to meeting you all!
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 Westwood House Care Home
Trip to Brighton
Whilst the sun makes hay, we will play and just what we did at the beach today, we took a trip to beautiful Brighton.
A wonderful stroll along the prom followed by fish, chips and mushy peas. Obviously we had to treat ourselves further to ice cream and candy floss.
We all had such a fantastic day and can’t wait to return.
Drama Students Perform at Westwood House
I while ago I posted about the project ‘Who Cares?’
This oral history project brings together older people living in care homes with A-Level Drama students from a local school.
The students receive training in how to conduct a life story interview, and then interview care home residents about their lives and experiences.
The students work with a drama facilitator to create and perform their piece.
We have been privileged to have the students and staff from Norwood School visit us at Westwood House to perform the finished work.
The students were amazing and delivered a moving and beautiful performance.
We know they will all ACE their exam.
Celebrating our Wonderful Carers!
We give enormous thanks to our carers here at Westwood House and the many, many around the world who work tirelessly to ensure
That our loved ones are happy, healthy and cared for.
We thank you for your dedication and commitment to others!
Dancing with Moving Waves
A wonderful morning at Westwood House as we welcomed Dianna from Moving Waves to come and dance with us.
We belted out the Abba tunes and had a ball.
Dancing is great for both physical and mental health and can really lift the spirits, and get us exercising whilst having fun.
A tapping of the toes and a clapping of the hands is a delight to see amongst our residents and we encourage movement through dance regularly to keep us all active.
Westwood House Coronation Celebrations!
We have had a fantastic few days celebrating The Coronation of King Charles lll. We have had an absolute blast thanks to our entertainers and all the staff who helped to make this a fun filled weekend.
Chef delighted us with a whole range of retro party foods; the residents faces were a picture when they spotted the cheese and pineapple and sausages on sticks.
Many of the residents families and friends joined us and enjoyed the food and a tipple or two, and of course we raised a glass to our new King.
The Wallis Collection Museum Visit
A great big THANK YOU! To Holly and Valessa for visiting us today here at Westwood House. They brought some wonderful art work and precious objects that relate to each painting.
Our residents were so engaged, discussing and admiring the works. To see and touch the objects gave a meaningful and tangible sensory experience.
