Activities at Werrington Lodge 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.
Our specialist activities staff are committed to organising a mix of activities and events for residents and the local community to get involved in, including trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and visits from entertainers and musicians. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.
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 Werrington Lodge Care Home
Animal Therapy
We had the pleasure again of Michelle and her animals visiting. The residents were very taken with Angeline, a seal point kitten, even the staff wanted to keep her.
The chicken found a friend and the guinea pig decided it wanted to stay with one of our residents and hid in his pocket, much to his delight. Residents love it when the animals come to see us. The animals are always really well-behaved, especially when you think about how many hands they go through whilst here.
The chicken can be a bit naughty sometimes, but it's hilarious and has the residents in stitches!
Sealife Centre
We went out for the day to Hunstanton with 3 residents for a day out at the Sea Life Centre. The residents loved the Sea Life Centre, all the different species of sea life and also some exotic animals like the large cockroaches, leaf-cutting ants, snakes and other reptiles.
They liked the moving walkway with the sharks and massive fish swimming above us. They also got the chance to feed one of the tanks with the big fish, which they loved too.
After an hour in the Sea Life Centre, we went and sat in the pub car park and had a nice drink before heading up the hill to the Fish & Chip shop where we got a takeaway. We parked the van overlooking the sea and ate our Fish & Chips in the van. The residents loved it. They felt like it was what they used to do with their families when they were young.
We were all fed and watered well, got rid of the rubbish and set off home again. It was a perfect trip back, and we made it again before the traffic built up, getting back in time for tea. We will definitely do it again. The residents loved it. One resident was telling the carers all about it for days afterwards, talking about the big fishes and the lovely Fish & Chips.
Pub Lunch
We recently went out to the pub for lunch and a pint, which the residents always enjoy!
It gets them out and into a different environment, and they always eat well and thoroughly enjoy their meals.
Zoolab Visit!
At Werrington Lodge, we recently had some weird and wonderful creatures come to visit us with Zoo Lab. Chris brought us animals from his own collection. There was a Corn Snake called Casper, a Cockroach called Jarvis, a Tarantula called Elvis and a Gecko called Honey.
The residents were very interested and lots of questions were asked about these animals.
We were amazed at how many of the residents were happy to hold the animals, as they were definitely not the fluffy, cuddly kind that we normally would see; some of the staff weren’t overly keen to get too close either, as you can see by the photographs the residents loved the session.
Some residents were braver than others and held them, whilst some just had a look from a distance. Thank you Zoo Lab and Chris. We found the session very interesting. We will be seeing you again later on in the year and well done you brave residents.
Retail Therapy
We did a bit of retail therapy in house when the Gemini Mobile Clothing Company came to visit us with their clothes.
They were lovely people with wonderful items on offer! The residents loved browsing the rails, some bought, and some just window shopped, which is fine!
Women's and men's clothing range from £10 - £25. We hope to see them again with their Autumn wear - they had everything from underwear and nightwear to cardigans, jumpers, skirts and trousers.
The quality is great, and residents who bought items were very impressed and look forward to seeing them again.
Glen Miller tribute
One of the cornerstones of our life enrichment program is live musical entertainment. Resident involvement in choosing genres along with feedback after each performance means that we are able to constantly improve our activities calendar.
Our Residents were entertained by Matt Brown a tribute to Glen Miller on his trombone. He played and sang well known tunes made popular by Glen Miller and added some favourites from the Rat pack. The residents joined in with singing, dancing and smiles all around.
At Werrington Lodge that's what we like to do - create memories, and ensure our residents are leading full enriched lives.
