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
Weekly Activities
We enjoyed a variety of stimulating activities recently. We started the week with some relaxing hand massages and manicures, we then made fresh fruit smoothies, that everyone enjoyed.
We had some gentle chair exercises on Wednesday and Thursday with Chloe and Kristy, which a lot of residents look forward to weekly. We also had our regular weekly visit from Reverend Gibbs.
On Friday, the residents heard the familiar sound of the ice cream van, which visited us here by prior arrangement, everyone was delighted to devour a plain cone or a 99 with the flake!
Saturday was a lovely day with a visit from an accordion player through a local community charity, who treated us to cultural music from Spain and France, and all residents agreed he should come back very soon!
We finished the weekend by baking some delicious shortbread to have for afternoon tea.
Christmas Shopping
Residents and the Activities team today ventured out to the beautiful winter wonderland display at Poplar Nurseries at Tiptree to get some Christmas shopping done.
We were astounded by the bright lights, decor and outstanding displays. We even purchased some of the decorations for our home.
While we visited the garden centre, we learnt that we could enter a ‘polar nurseries’ photo competition in which we took part in.
A nice warm drink to quench our thirst and a slice of cake to end the afternoon... what better way to spend a Tuesday?
Countdown To Christmas
This week care staff and residents at Woodland View celebrated Elf day.
We spent the afternoon finding that the elves we brought into the home were causing nothing but mischief. Our residents are keen to keep an eye on the elves to make sure they are being behaved.
In the morning we had a fulfilling church service with Reverend Ray Gibbs. Later we reminisced about ‘Christmas in the past’ and continued to decorate the home to make it feel festive to match the early darkness in the afternoons, followed by mulled wine and mince pies.
It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas!
Residents and staff members at Woodland View have started decorating our home for Christmas.
Everyone is getting very excited about the festive season this week the home has been full of the Christmas spirit as our wonderful Activities team has a full calendar of festive events planned for the month.
This week each floor will be decorating their own trees as part of our Christmas Tree competition, the winning team will receive a prize and bragging rights for the year!
Bingo And Sherry Afternoon
Residents at Woodland View, gathered together for prize Bingo. This entertaining and social afternoon soon turned very competitive with prizes and bragging rights available to the winners.
Regular breaks were made for the homemade cakes and shortbread freshly baked by the kitchen team, and the Activities team kept everyone well supplied with tea or sherry.
Children In Need
Yesterday, residents and care staff at Woodland View were busy decorating Pudsey cupcakes and making Pudsey hats to donate as a way to raise money for the charity.
We also enjoyed a photo shoot session to show how much fun raising money for charity can be.
One resident said “Because of restrictions and not being able to raise money like we normally do, it’s nice to know that what we are doing this afternoon will raise some money for such an important charity and I’m glad to be apart of it.”
