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
Magic Table
We use the magic table with individuals and in small groups as it’s a great sensory tool, which provokes lots of conversations and interactions with residents. Pictured here is one of our staff members and a resident playing on the magic table, singing along to the music and having a great time!
Fresh Flower Arranging
Residents really enjoy arranging fresh flowers every other week to be displayed around the home. Whilst arranging the flowers we often talk about the colours and smells of the flowers, our favourite flowers and even what flowers we had at our wedding! It brings back some great memories for everyone.
Art Therapy
We enjoy lots of art and craft activities here at Oaklands, sometimes we work towards a big craft project and other times we just enjoy it for the moment. Here we are free painting on a one to one basis with one of our residents.
Winter Walk
We thoroughly enjoyed a trip out to our local National Trust winter walk. The sun shone though the trees and it was magical.
Festival of Lights
We were extremely lucky to have the local Indian dance school Sanskruti from Cambridge perform some of their spectacular dancing to help with our Diwali celebrations, Staff members were also taught some moves which was fun. We also enjoyed a curry and Diwali quiz evening which went down well with the residents.
Family Fun Day
We enjoyed music from the Eclipse Choir and the Cambridge Groove Orchestra. Our Head Chef, Richard, supplied us with a delicious BBQ.
Our own residents' choir, who meet every Tuesday, performed two songs along with the Eclipse Choir, which was a very proud moment for the activity staff, Anna and Jo.
As part of the day, we presented a Long Service Award to Jane Webb, who has been a nurse with Barchester for 25 years. Well done, Jane!
