Stoneham GroveBarchester Healthcare

Activities at Stoneham Grove 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 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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Iuliana Buican

Activities Coordinator

Hello, my name is Iuliana and I'm Activities Lead here at Stoneham Grove.

I worked as a History Teacher for 12 years before joining Barchester in 2017.

I am passionate about my job and I love working with people. I enjoy planning and providing meaningful activities that make a difference in the lives of our residents, counting their hobbies and wishes.

In my free time, I enjoy travelling, dancing, quizzing and playing board games with my family and friends.

I am looking forward to using my skills and experience to enhance the lives of our wonderful residents.

Celebrating life at Stoneham Grove Care Home

Out and about in our community - Reading Royals Memory Café

We visited Age UK Memory Café in collaboration with Reading FC Community Trust this morning with some of our residents to have a chat, reminisce and play a game..... and sometimes to meet some of the Royals legends!

Mexican Independence Day Celebrations

We do love a celebration..... and Mexican Independence day which was celebrated yesterday was the perfect opportunity for a day of Mexican food, drink, music and dance and not forgetting the maracas!

Arty Afternoon

The weekend was pretty unpredictable weather wise, so we chose to unleash our inner creativity and spend the afternoons mindfully drawing, painting, and colouring our favourite subjects

Mini Bus Travels - Henry Street Garden Centre

What a glorious day today... We decided to make the most of the lovely weather and pop over to Henry Street Garden Centre for a look around their new seasons displays, feed the wonderful fish and finally reward ourselves with a well deserved cuppa

Such beautiful Autumn colours and seasonal displays, we had a wonderful time

We look forward to visiting again very soon

It's a perfect 10!

We're very pleased to share that we have just received a perfect 10 rating on Care Home Uk. This score is fully validated by reviews submitted by residents and their loved ones to Care Home UK and is the highest score achievable.

We are very proud of this achievement, and it means so much to all our team here at Stoneham Grove

Thank you so much for taking the time to share all your wonderful feedback

World Photo Day ... The memories we keep

As yesterday was "World Photo Day" we thought we'd run a reminiscence session based around all our lovely residents and their photos which mean the most to them

Lots of stories were shared and memories regained

Mini Bus Travels..... Discovering Nature

We were out and about again yesterday and decided to immerse ourselves in nature and visit The Nature Discovery Centre in Thatcham. What a wonderful location to wander around the beautiful lake, stretch our legs and view the abundance of wildlife and flowers

Gentleman's Club - Reminiscence - Favourite cars of the 1960's

We love making the most of our beautiful gardens, so at the weekend we held our Gentleman's' club outside in a cool spot

We took advantage of the lovely weather and reminisced over the question "What was your favourite car of the 1960's ?"

The gents enjoyed their discussion over which car was the best and which ones they had owned... Len waxed lyrical over his Morris Minor which he very much enjoyed owning and driving. What's your favourite care of the 1960's?

A big Thank You to West Berkshire Libraries for the first of our reminiscence boxes

All this chatting was rewarded with a glass of their favourite brew ... Guinness, Real Ale or Lager... Cheers!

“I must have flowers always... and always"

Well said Monet.... We also love our flowers here at Stoneham Grove and some of our ladies took the opportunity to join our flower arranging class over the weekend.

Everyone loved interacting with one another and finding out other residents favourite flowers and colour combinations. The end results were beautiful and each resident had a lovely vase arrangement for their room

Happy 100th Birthday Len

One of our lovely residents Len celebrated his 100th Birthday yesterday, what a wonderful milestone.

Len celebrated his special day surrounded by his family and friends, including his sister Lillian who is also one of our lovely residents

Head Chef Pete and Second Chef Emma and their team prepared a delicious afternoon tea and a beautiful celebratory Birthday cake which everyone enjoyed very many congratulations Len... We love your Birthday glasses and special "I'm 100" sash!

What a Wonderful Afternoon....

We all had such a wonderful afternoon at our Summer Fete

There were the cutest of animals courtesy of Basil And Crew Mobile Farm, Thank you to James and Hayley and a special mention to Doodle the Donkey

We were entertained by the sweet melodies of Derry Pope and his Silvertones Choir and we were very lucky that Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Servicefrom Theale Fire Station were able to come along with one of their fire engines for us to explore

There were a variety of stalls to browse including Cake Bakes, crafts, and beauty products

The ice-cream van was very popular along with our barbeque with freshly prepared treats courtesy of our head chef Pete and his team

Our raffle was very popular amongst young and old, a very big Thank You to everyone who donated prizes including our wonderful local businesses James Bloor Jewellers, Vendela Rose Florists, Warings Bakers, Fun and Frolic, The Village Florist, Tilehurst Cobblers, Sarah Styles Floristry and last but definitely not least Chocolates for Chocoholics

We would like to say a huge Thank You to everyone who made the afternoon a success, our wonderful volunteers, residents, and their friends and families and everyone from our local community

Rain Doesn't stop Play!

We were out and about again this morning in our mini bus visiting Englefield Estate which is very close to Stoneham Grove We had a wander around the pretty village, a browse in the garden centre and then we saw the most wonderful herd of deer in the estate grounds. We then made our way to the 5adaygarden Community Garden where Ali and Katie gave us an informative tour of this beautiful and productive Community garden.

The Five A Day Garden is situated in the beautiful village of Englefield, West Berkshire. It's aims are to improve the well-being of everyone in the local community by managing a growing space to provide horticultural education, horticultural therapy and to access healthy, naturally grown produce.

What a perfect morning even in the rain

Those magnificent men in their flying machines...

We love getting out and about in mini bus.... yesterday we visited the Museum of Berkshire Aviation

Berkshire's dynamic contribution to aviation history is graphically recaptured at the museum. Run as a charitable trust, the museum is at the historic site of Woodley Airfield, near Reading

Once, the centre of a thriving aircraft industry. Miles and Handley Page aircraft built at Woodley are being re-constructed and exhibited along with fascinating pictorial records and priceless archives.

The residents had an amazing time chatting, reminiscing and looking at the interesting exhibits

International Chess Day

The battle lines were drawn for International Chess Day which took part this year on 20th July

Our residents and staff took part in a mini tournament of the game of strategy which everyone thoroughly enjoyed

Resident John was our tournament winner, congratulations John, a well- deserved win

Nice Ice, baby.....

Well, we couldn't resist.... Although it's not National Ice-cream day until Sunday, but we thought we'd ask the ice cream van to visit us earlier this week so we could cool down whilst it was hot

What a delicious treat.... What's your favourite topping? Strawberry, chocolate, caramel ?

Out and about in our community - Reading Royals Memory Café

Mini Bus Travels - Henry Street Garden Centre

Such beautiful Autumn colours and seasonal displays, we had a wonderful time

We look forward to visiting again very soon