Activities at Woodhorn Park Care Home

Here at Woodhorn Park our bookshelves were bulging as we celebrated World Book Day in style. Staff dressed up in characters from their favourite stories and our resident ambassador joined in too.

The day promotes reading for pleasure, so our residents decided to host a discussion about their favourite books and authors, and to join a storytelling session, they wrote about their favourite story.

Residents enjoy their weekly book club chatting about the lovely places their stories take them.

As part of our International Women’s Day celebrations, Residents from across our services were thrilled to join tour guide, Mandy Morrow, for an exciting talk about some Legendary London Ladies.

Mandy shared the fascinating stories of eight ladies with us, from the one of the richest heiresses in the world to the original 'Roaring Girl'.

Everyone who participated truly enjoyed the experience and were delighted to take a walk down memory lane.

Across the country our homes and hospitals came together to find out which care home or hospital had the best Bingo players as we teamed up for Barchester’s Bingo Bonanza.

Residents were treated to some exciting virtual games of Bingo as part of Barchester’ very own game show series.

Everyone who participate had a fantastic time and enjoyed some friendly competition.

Staff and residents used London Fashion Week as a great excuse to talk about what fashion means to them and to reminisce about different outfits they had worn over the years.  Staff and residents swapped photos of their favourite outfits, talked about clothes they had made themselves or that they had bought or had made for special occasions. 

Residents then put together their own design with the activity team and with material and bits and bobs brought their design to life and what a design team they were.

Staff and residents celebrated the day of love by creating heart-shaped decorations to decorate the home and gifting each other home-made sweets, cakes and treats.

They tasted even better as they were baked by them. Residents said that they enjoyed baking and it had been a lovely day as everyone put so much effort it.

We welcomed in the Year of the Dragon 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.

They also tried some authentic dishes made by our Chef.