Activities at Ottley House Care Home
At Ottley House, we offer a person-centred activities programme, and aim to match residents' abilities and interests with meaningful activities of the correct degree of challenge that promotes their health and well-being. We also provide visual, tactile, audible and olfactory sensory experiences. There are weekly music/movement therapy sessions, 'Oomph' sessions, and arts & crafts classes to help improve, maintain and refine motor skills. We enjoy regular visits from entertainers, musicians and animal therapists, as well as pub nights, 'food from around the world' days, and minibus outings to places of interest.
Cath Smallman
Hi, I'm Cath, the Activities Coordinator here at Ottley House. My days are spent making sure that the residents in the home have an interesting and active social programme to enjoy each day. Residents individual preferences are considered all the time in a person centred approach and I welcome feedback from families too.
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 Ottley House Care Home
Ottley House Tantalising Treats
Our very talented chef Milen, spent many hours, 15 in total!!! Baking and decorating our Christmas cake.
Everything was made by his own fair hands and we thought it was so brilliant that we entered it into the Barchester Christmas cake competition.
We are also very much looking forward to a slice on Christmas day as we are sure it will taste just as good as it looks.
It’s Party Time at Ottley House
We were in full swing at our residents Christmas party.
Singer Paul Watkins, soon had us “rockin’ around the Christmas tree” and “walking in a winter wonderland”
To finish off such a fun afternoon our amazing kitchen staff served up a delicious buffet.
Ottley House is Feeling very Festive
The decorations are up and the lights are on!
We have a wonderful array of activities going on all throughout December from carol singing, Christmas movies, mulled wine and minced pies to trips to see the towns Christmas lights and gardens.
Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
What a wonderful day we had at our Mad Hatter Tea Party. We were delighted that the Mayor of Shrewsbury was able to join us for an afternoon of fun and games. Tea and cake was served by the mad hatter himself and the white rabbit gave him a helping hand, whilst Alice, the queen of hearts and her cards mingled to ensure all guests had a good time (staff love any excuse to dress up).
Harvest Festival
We held our harvest festival service in our café lounge. We started the day by making a wheatsheaf out of dough and getting the kitchen staff to bake it for us. In the afternoon we sang songs, read poems and gave thanks to all the farmers and food producers for all their hard work. Our residents, visitors and staff kindly brought in an array of goodies (tinned food, cereal, toiletries) for our harvest display, which we then took to our local food bank to distribute between those that are finding things a bit difficult at the moment.
National Grandparents day
To celebrate national grandparents day we contacted our local primary schools to ask if they would like to draw some pictures of activities that they enjoy doing with their grandparents, and we are happy to say that they embraced the project wholeheartedly. We then went along in our mini bus to the local schools to collect the drawings. The children told us how much they love spending time with their grandparents and our residents said how much they enjoy the time they have with their grandchildren. The residents spent the next morning looking through all the pictures and commented on how talented the children were especially as they were so young. The children created so much artwork that every single resident was able to choose a picture of their own to keep.
