Activities at Woodhorn Park Care Home
Activities make up the most important part of all our days at Woodhorn park, so we ensure a variety of social events are available that reflect the interests of all the people we support. In our Memory Lane community, we have group conversations and regularly reminiscence about past experiences, which is something that people living with dementia really enjoy. Many residents love gardening, baking, outings, pet care and gentle exercise, which we provide, along with many other wholesome activities, as it is essential that life at Woodhorn Park is fun and active.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 Woodhorn Park Care Home
Chinese New Year
We welcomed in the Year of the Tiger with a day of celebrations and activities.
The Chinese New Year is China’s most important festival that celebrated the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar calendar.
Inspired by Chinese culture and traditions, our residents enjoyed a creative session with Chinese New Year DIY dragons and made beautiful lanterns to mark the day.
We all enjoyed some delicious taste testing, with a range of Chinese dishes from Sweet & Sour to Spring Rolls.
Balloon fun!
Here at Woodhorn Park we are getting ready to follow this year’s Winter Olympic Games in Beijing running between 4th and 20th of February.
Residents enjoyed watching the amazing opening ceremony, as we took part in themed sporting activities of our own, showing that some of us definitely have a competitive side.
In the next couple of weeks, our residents will get involved in a variety of winter activities, as they watch performers from around the world compete in a number of winter disciplines such as ski, figure skating, snowboarding and more, we even thought about creating our very own Bobsleigh team!
Winter Olympics
Residents and staff at Woodhorn Park care home in Ashington have been cheering on Team GB throughout the Beijing Winter Olympics. Everyone at the home has loved seeing all of our amazing Olympians progress.
Sports fans at Woodhorn Park were delighted to be able to watch this year’s Winter Games hot on the heels of all the excitement from Tokyo last year. Residents and staff have had a brilliant time getting together to watch all of the different sporting fixtures from snowboarding to ski jumping, figure skating to bobsleigh, curling to ice hockey. They have tried their hand at “New Age Curling” competition heated up with residents enjoying having a taste of the Olympics at home.
Valentine's inspired cookery demo
We had a lovely time joining Chef Alex Connell from Vegetarian for Life for a Valentine’s-inspired virtual cookery demonstration. Chef Alex created some delicious Valentine’s Day-inspired vegetarian desserts, which our residents had the opportunity to try too.
First, our residents sampled a wonderful sticky toffee pudding, which was absolutely heavenly. Then they tried hazelnut truffles which were a huge hit and finally they were treated to a chocolate orange cake which everyone adored.
Century celebrations
Celebrations have been in full swing at Woodhorn Park Care Home as one of its residents reaches her centenary in style.
Marion was joined by staff, relatives, friends and other residents as she received a telegram from the Queen in recognition of her landmark birthday.
Marion served as WAAF and is always keen to share her stories with staff and residents, Marion was married to Ron and she had two daughters. Marion is a well-known character and is loved by so many of the local community. She joined Woodhorn Park in July 2020, where she is enjoying a new chapter of her life.
The birthday girl, said: their secret to long life is to just keep moving and that’s the best you can do!
Birthday celebrations
A busy month for birthdays, another one of our fabulous ladies celebrated today, a huge happy birthday and why not celebrate with two cakes and being serenaded with your friends singing Happy Birthday
Upcoming events
July
Hello July! We extend a warm welcome for you to join us as we look forward to a fun filled month ahead. All welcome.
