Activities at Newlands Care Home
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 within our home are tailored around the requests of residents. Our Activities Coordinator holds regular activity meetings to seek new thoughts and ideas. The home is committed to offering a varied range of activities for all residents, from hand and nail care to gardening for those who have green fingers. We carry out reminiscence activities, including planned entertainment days, bringing the seaside into the home or dance hall meetings.
We hold strong links with the community, especially schools and local children's sports teams, who visit the home to provide entertainment and engagement with residents. We also maintain relationships with the church to ensure that residents’ spiritual beliefs are met. Externally, we have our own minibus, and outings are planned and carried out, again tailored to residents’ preferences, whether it be shopping, visits to the local pub, tea and coffee afternoons, or a scenic day out in the lakes and lovely countryside that surrounds us. However, the fun does not stop at the residents we care for, but we also hold events to involve family and the wider community.
Hlabekile Nyoni (Nayoni)
Hlabekile Nyoni known by everyone as "Nayoni" is the Activities Co-Ordinator at Newlands Care Centre as of December 2023. Hlabekile joined the Barchester team in August 2023 on a part time basis then later became fulltime at the end of December 2023.
"Nayoni" says, ‘ I love sharing my ideas and knowledge to make residents life at Newlands enjoyable and memorable for them and their families. Each day is a different day and each resident is different therefore I always put that into consideration when coming up with activities that can suit each individual. I am so glad to work with a great team throughout the home, from housekeeping, clinical, care, kitchen, maintenance, admin and managers all play a pivotal role in my work. With my strong artistic background I find it easier to come up with creative ideas. I love my job here at Newlands.
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 Newlands Care Home
Easter Celebrations!
The Easter bunny has been out doing the rounds delivering Easter eggs to all our residents and staff for them to enjoy over the Easter weekend. Our residents and staff enjoyed the Easter bonnet parade as well as our residents got to enjoy and showcase their lovely creations.
The atmosphere was at its best with everyone excited about this time of the year and the welcoming of Spring.
Mini-police visit!
We had an honour of welcoming the mini-police from Victoria Junior School at the home. The Mini police had some amazing Easter goodies for our residents, who were very happy to receive them.
The children got some advice from our residents on how to approach life. One of the advice was from Jim who told the children to listen to their teachers, work hard, get good jobs and pay their taxes.
Easter Cake Competition
The home is so thrilled to have won the Residents Easter cake completion for the division. The cake was a joint effort from the residents and when they heard they had won, there was jubilation everywhere.
The residents were excited and couldn’t believe it, but they sure acknowledged that they deserved it because they worked hard on it. They will use their winnings to have good games.
Red Nose Day!
Red Nose fundraising got off to a great start at Newlands with some live entertainment by Sing Stars Entertainment. Our theme was western/country music.
Staff and residents enjoyed dressing up as cowboys and cowgirls. The home was abuzz with country music throughout the day, a cake sale and a raffle.
Pie Competition
To celebrate British pie week, our residents and staff had so much fun tasting and judging the contestants' pies to come up with a winner for our Newlands pie competition.
The competition was very stiff as we received delicious and amazing pies.
The winner was Steph with her chicken and leek pie.
Frank's 60th Wedding Anniversary
Frank celebrated his 60th birthday with his beautiful wife Brenda.
Staff took Frank to the nearby home where his wife is a resident in order for them to be able to celebrate their anniversary together (the hospitality was amazing).
They were showered with gifts and love.
They had a lovely time indeed.
