Activities at Woodland View Care Home
Activities at Woodland View
Woodland View is passionately committed to providing residents with a varied choice of entertainment, social, health and well being, craft and relaxation based activities.
Activities will all be meaningful and based on the likes of residents and will continue to evolve depending on our residents. The activities provided will also include involvement from other local community based organisations and are open to all residents, family and friends of residents. Our activities will be facilitated by staff from all departments as well as invited guests. Families are also enthusiastically encouraged to play a part in activities when possible.
There will always be at least one person at every activity who has been DBS checked to ensure the safeguarding of our residents. The dignity of our residents and our respect for them is at the centre of everything we do, each and every day.
We are always reviewing and changing our schedule of activities to be a centre of excellence and actively invite feedback and suggestions for new and meaningful activities and ideas.
Petra Hardman
Hi my name is Petra and I'm the Activities Coordinator here at Woodland View. I love seeing the difference that activities can make to each individual, and finding out what interests they have and ensure I incorporate that into our activities here.
I love music and drama coming from a musical background as a singer all over the country, music is important to me and I feel it makes such a difference to everyone, it evokes memories, and creates happiness. I also love to boost residents self esteem by creating pampering sessions and having one to one time to relax and reminisce.
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 Woodland View Care Home
Husband and Wife win community competition
Today our resident Gordon and his wife Norma went on the mini-bus to enjoy an Afternoon Tea of fresh sandwiches, scones and cake, all with a pot of tea, and a choice of wine or Prosecco!
Our lucky couple won a competition held by Stanway Lakelands Centre, part of the ALB (Colchester Anti-Loo Roll Brigade) which our Activity Team entered for them. The competition asked for the couple who has been married the longest, and Gordon and Norma will have been married for 68 years in September!
They both had a lovely time, meeting Centre Manager Alisha, and ALB founder Peter Dutch, discussing where they met, and married, the secret to a long and happy marriage, and football teams they support!
Gordon said the secret to a happy marriage is "Doing as he’s told!"
What a lovely afternoon, it was lovely to be out in our local community, and a huge Thank you to all involved
Valentine’s Day at Woodland View!
"Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear."
-John Lennon
We had a lovely Valentine's Day here at Woodland View, celebrating romance and platonic love, with one of our couples celebrating 67 years together, and flowers gifted for the first time.
We had a full Valentines menu, finished with a very special heart shaped cake made by our talented Head Chef for all our communities which was delicious!
All our residents and female staff received a red rose from our Gardener Jason and our lovely resident Gordon, which was met with the biggest smiles, and some real emotional reactions, including happy tears! We also had Serena and Kevin, our therapy dog on the visits to provide double the love and hugs!
In the afternoon staff were treated to pizza by our General Manager, to share the love amongst our highly valued staff also.
Julie and Jane treated us to their love songs set, with music from Westend Shows, Popular music, and singalongs we all know and love.
Around the World: A visit to India!
This weekend we held our latest monthly cultural day in which we visited India.
Residents, Relatives and staff were treated to a menu of Traditional Biriyani, Butter Chicken, Vegetable Stew, Nann Bread and Poppadoms, for dessert Gulab Juman was served with ice cream.
We were then treated to a Saree demonstration on how to wear different styles of Saree's from different regions of India, which was very interesting, and our models looked beautiful!
Our female staff also presented a Bollywood inspired dance, which was beautiful, such talent to remember all the steps!
On behalf of Management and all Departments we would like to say a HUGE Thankyou to our Indian community of staff, who cooked all the food from fresh in the morning, some of which had just finished a night shift!
A huge thanks to Jain, Joby, Minal, Mobin
Sibin, Kannan, Sinto, Soumya, Aranta, Jenni
Anila. And all other staff involved on the day!
Fun on the swings at the Country Park!
After such high winds, we took the opportunity to get out and about as soon as they was a glimpse of good weather! The sun was shining, the birds were tweeting, and what a wonderful time to get out and enjoy the nature surrounding our home. Some of our dallies noticed the newly renovated playground, and commented “Oh, look at the swings, I haven’t been on a swing for years” Well, that was definitely something we wanted to make happen, and was followed promptly with lots of smiles and laughter! Sometimes the best activity, is unplanned and impromptu!
New Year Celebrations
After all the fun we had at Christmas, we wanted to ensure we also brought the new year in with style!
We had our Black and Gold theme running throughout all our events, which residents, staff and families attending celebrations.
We had the popular Julie and Jane, Brian Shaw, and Anna all entertaining us with their own style, and music from all genres.
Sri-Lanka Cultural Day
As part of our monthly cultural day celebrating the diversity of our multicultural home, this month we sampled the culinary delights of Sri-Lanka. Our talented Second Chef Wasana and Kitchen Assistant Nuwan cooked a delightful curry with traditional Parathas, which residents, staff and families all enjoyed. Both Wasana and Nuwan also showed us family photos, and told us all about their traditions, and shared some traditional music with us.
Next month we visit India!
