BayleafBarchester Healthcare

Activities at Bayleaf Care Home

Name: Bayleaf Care Home
Address: Sallowbush Road,, Huntingdon, PE29 7AF, GB
Telephone: 01480 802091

Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.

Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.

Read our brochure ‘Life-enriching activities’ for more information about life in our care homes.

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Celebrating life at Bayleaf Care Home

A trip to the Garden Centre

Nothing says 'Summer is Coming' more than a gloriously sunny day and a trip out to the Garden Centre.

John, Freda and Joyce had a lovely time at the Blue Diamond Garden Centre looking at the different plants, seeing the fish in the aquarium and doing a little bit of shopping.

Once we had seen everything there was to see we sat down for a well earned drink and a snack before we headed back to Bayleaf full of good spirits.

The Amazing Team Bayleaf

Our amazing staff have taken part in a sponsored fun run to raise money for Parkinson’s UK.

The Huntingdon 5k Inflatable Run took place at Huntingdon Racecourse on Saturday 11th April and after weeks of preparation and training, the team lead by our brilliant manager, Katie passed the challenge with flying colours.

There was a lot of fun and laughter and the team were, rightly, so proud of their achievement.

A fascinating afternoon at Bayleaf

There was laughter and elegance in equal measure today as we hosted our Grand National celebration. It was a delight to see our residents dressed to the nines, showcasing beautiful fascinators that added a wonderful splash of colour to the day.

To make the occasion even more lively, we were joined by our entertainer, Charlie Chaplin. He has already become one of the residents’ favourites. Seeing residents, visitors and staff singing along together, waving to the music, and sharing such joyful moments was truly heartwarming.

To round off a perfect afternoon, we enjoyed a delicious selection of cheeses served with fresh fruits and crackers, sharing stories, laughter, and smiles.

The Big Bayleaf Easter Egg Hunt

Get ready for the 'Big Bayleaf Easter Egg Hunt'

Over the past few days we have been busy placing our colourful plastic eggs in various locations throughout Huntingdon.

If you are lucky enough to find one of the eggs, all you need to do is bring the egg, along with the message inside the egg, back to Bayleaf Care Home and you can then claim your free prize (the clue is in the picture!!!).

Happy hunting everybody!!!!!!

Fun in the Sun

It was fun in the sun all day yesterday at Bayleaf.

We made the most of the warm spring sunshine with an impromptu morning spent in the gardens of the home. The residents were invited to pull up a chair and enjoy the unmistakeable feeling of sunshine on their faces whilst the staff provided drinks and refreshments. Some of the residents also helped head gardener, Mark Olivier, adding some colour to the gardens with an array of flowers and potted plants

After lunch we were back outside, this time for a French themed afternoon. We had some delicious snacks and drinks and the residents enjoyed testing their skills with some French language games and quizzes. This was a blast from the past for most of the residents who had learnt French at school and dug deep in the memory banks to remember what they had learnt.

A lovely day with lovely weather and, most importantly, lovely residents!!

Intergenerational fun at Bayleaf

We were delighted to be joined by pupils from St John's CE Primary School, Huntingdon on Friday to do some creative drawings.

The children were so well behaved and took a great deal of pride in the drawings which will now be placed around the home for all of our visitors to enjoy.

A massive thank you to everybody at the school. Our residents absolutely love their visits from the children and we very much look forward to seeing them in the very near future.

National Gardening Day

Yesterday was National Gardening Day, which coincided nicely with the latest edition of our Gardening Club. It was a little chillier and windier than we have been used to lately but that did not stop Kath and Margaret from braving the elements and doing a phenomenal job potting and planting in the raised flower beds.

This is an on-going project which we are very much excited to see blossom and bloom (puns intended) into something special and we will keep you updated as our garden becomes more colourful over the next few months.

A day-trip to St Ives

We love nothing more than an outing on the minibus so when some of our residents said that they would like to go to St Ives we were more than happy to oblige.

Valerie, Andy and John had a lovely time walking along the Great River Ouse and crossing the famous Chapel Bridge before stopping to feed the pigeons and ducks.

The day ended with a well-earned coffee and hot drink before we boarded the minibus to go back to the home.

That's Magic!!!

We had a new visitor to Bayleaf yesterday when we were joined by Magician, Chris Wolff, for an afternoon of tricks and sorcery.

With a variety of impressive and mind-blowing card tricks, Chris had every single resident completely spellbound and by the time he had finished we had a number of residents wondering how they could join the 'Magic Circle'.

It was a great first impression from Chris and we very much look forward to welcoming Chris back to Bayleaf very soon.

St Patricks Day

We celebrated St Patricks Day in style yesterday at Bayleaf.

Our private dining suite was decorated with Irish tricolour flags and bunting ready for our St Patricks Day Party. The residents had a great time listening to traditional Irish music and sharing snacks and drinks together.

As our only Irish resident, Mary was especially proud to see the home displaying the colours that mean so much to her.

Another wonderful afternoon at Bayleaf

Animal Magic at Bayleaf

We spent a wonderful morning with Michelle's Animal Therapy & Petting Party where we got to spend some time with the most adorable cats, dogs (including a 10-week old puppy), cockerels, guinea pigs and even a gecko.

Our residents were absolutely transfixed with the animals and all took turns in carefully holding the animals.

Animal therapy plays such an important part of our lives at Bayleaf. There is something so therapeutic about animals and it is always very well received when we receive these special visits.

Grand National Fun

We couldn't let the Aintree Festival go without doing something with the residents so we all took part in a Grand National sweepstake for the big race on Saturday.

Each of the residents picked a horse at random and then sat and watched the race hoping that their horse would triumph.

We are very happy to say that our lucky winner was Clive with Joyce and John making up the top three. They each received a prize to acknowledge their win and were only too happy to pose for a celebratory photo with Lorraine.

Easter fun at Bayleaf

Our first Easter at Bayleaf was a very memorable day for all of our residents.

The day started with our very own Frederick who entertained the residents with his gospel songs. This was followed by the highlight of the day as each of the residents received their own Easter Egg, courtesy of our Easter Bunnies (Kay and Georgie).

The residents had a lovely time and we hope that they have enjoyed their eggs.

Getting creative with Cards

The creative juices were flowing again at Bayleaf as we were joined William Peacock & Sons Funeral Directors who had kindly offered to come and make a variety of different cards with our residents and visitors.

It was a lovely afternoon and the end result was some very special creations with all of the participants were very proud of and they cannot wait to send them out to their loved ones.

Mothers Day celebrations

We had a simply wonderful day at Bayleaf yesterday as we celebrated our fabulous Mothers on Mothering Sunday.

All of our ladies were presented with a stunning bouquet of flowers before being being joined by their families for a very special meal expertly prepared by our head chef, Stephane.

We were then joined by the amazing Tahlia, who sang beautifully for our residents whilst also engaging with our residents' families including the grandchildren and great-grandchildren. It was an afternoon for all of the generations.