Activities at Oaklands Care Home
Our home is always full of life, and we can thank our wonderful Activities Coordinators for this. Dedication to creating a unique and interesting activities programme is what sets us apart from other homes. We always take into consideration that some people would prefer to pursue their own interests, which is why our team strive to incorporative activities that cater to a wide range of tastes and hobbies. Our trips out are always fun and exciting as well, and residents are guaranteed to return with stories to tell their loved ones!
Anna Bate & Jo Lawn
Anna is our Activity Lead. She started working at Barchester over 14 years ago at our sister home Hilton Park. Having built strong relationships with staff, residents and families, Anna brings lots of fun to our home. Anna loves to sing, dance and laugh and generally brings oodles of joy to ours days.
Working alongside Anna is Jo who started her career here at Oaklands as a carer on Elms community in 2014 developing a passion for dementia care and completing her social care N+VQ Levels 2 and 3. Jo Joined the activity team 3 years ago and has since become the homes dementia champion, championing for a better lifestyle for our resident through staff training and regular audits.
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 Oaklands Care Home
Easter
Lots of great fun from Easter period with cookery club, oomph newsletters, and Easter decorating and social time with friends, we even involved the staff with Easter quizzes.
Spring has Arrived!
Our residents at Oaklands had a wonderful time planting bulbs in time for spring, after we finished this we went for a sunny walk in the garden and looked at all of the blossoming flowers.
St David's Day
We celebrated St David’s day by arranging daffodil flowers around the home, hanging our Welsh flags and we had great fun completing the Oomph work books. We also got creative in our art session, making our own pictures.
Epilepsy Action Charity
Each year in February we support Epilepsy Action Charity by holding a fun day with staff and residents, dressing up in purple, we sell cakes and play games. It is always lots of fun.
London Fashion Week
We marked London's Fashion Week recently by looking through magazines and choosing our favourite designs and creating mood boards of clothes. We were very creative and had lots of fun.
International Day of Women in Science
We celebrated International Day of Women in Science by having some fun with science experiments. We brought a small kit from a local business, which provided us with all the equipment and little cards with all the instructions on and we had great fun.
There were lots of opportunities for the residents to be hands on creating and great visual effects for all of us to see.
