Activities at Woodside House Care Home
Activities at Woodside House
Our activities team deliver a wide variety of mentally and physically stimulating activities and events for those we support, including coffee afternoons, which we hold every month for the local community, regular outings in our minibus, and visits from entertainers and musicians. Monthly resident meetings help us to ensure that those living here are getting the most out of our activities programme, and that our social events reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible. From growing our own vegetables to making giant paper-mâché animals, there is always something fun going on at Woodside House.
Sam Lake
My name is Sam and I lead our Activities Team at Woodside House.
I have been at Woodside House since 2004 and I love it here. I am responsible for ensuring that the residents are able to participate in sociable, fun and rewarding activities. My team and I are very passionate about our work and love putting smiles on the residents' faces.
We involve the residents in the planning of our activity calendars and encourage residents to continue with the hobbies that they have enjoyed throughout their lives. We will support every resident to try new things and we love learning from our residents every day.
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 Woodside House Care Home
Baking session
Every week our residents thoroughly enjoy the baking club.
This week we made cheese straws - which were a great success!
The baking club is very popular with the residents as it enables them to maintain their independence. They also love deciding what to bake! The best part is taste testing our creations at the end!
Sainsbury Art Centre
Our residents here at Woodside House wanted to take a trip to the Sainsbury art centre.
Our residents really enjoyed being able to learn about the history and have a look at the art and there was even time to stop off for a coffee and cake!
A visit from Elvis!
Elvis was back in the building here at Woodside House this week.
Music therapy is so important and can help to support our well-being! Our residents can’t wait for him to visit each month, and they will all rush to our hairdresser to get their hair done for him.
He even made time to visit our bed-bound resident.
And that's a wrap!
Many thanks to our Head Chef, Head of Housekeeping and Kitchen staff for a beautiful lunch of prawn cocktail, traditional Turkey, with all the trimmings, and Christmas pudding or sherry trifle, and a buffet.
To our Activities Team for the table gifts, and providing personal individually chosen gifts for everybody, with Santa and his elves delivering to every community, for singing this afternoon and making sure everyone watched the Kings Speech who wanted to!
To our Nursing and care staff for their care during the day and serving a beautiful lunch for all, and also spending time with residents opening presents, dancing and helping to put a a smile on everyone's face!
To our Housekeeping staff for making sure the home smelt wonderful, and looked clean, and making sure everyone had lovely clean Christmas Day clothes.
Thank you to each and every person for your hard work today, and for making our residents day special!
Norwich Cathedral Carol Service
We had a very lovely Christmas evening at the Norwich cathedral recently!
The Priscilla Bacon Hospice kindly invited us to their Charity Carol Service, and what a wonderful charity to support.
It was such a wonderful afternoon listening to, and singing along to, the very festive carols in such a beautiful building!
Elf Day!
For Elf Day here at Woodside, our Deputy Manager, David, and Alice, our Administrator, were Santa’s little helpers spreading some Christmas joy across the home!
Christmas is a very important time of the year for many people, so being able to laugh and spend time with our residents, ensuring they are happy and content is integral.
We had a wonderful afternoon getting into the Christmas spirit and are feeling very festive!
