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
Easter Celebrations at Werrington Lodge!
Good Friday gave residents and staff a surprise visit from the Easter Bunny, who went round the home with the treats trolley, giving out some delicious Easter treats. The bunny even surprised some of our younger visitors, with lots of smiles and laughter as everyone enjoyed a hug from the bunny. It was a very hot day, leaving the bunny at the end very weary, so he had a deserved rest in the garden.
It was lovely to see all the smiley faces, not just from our lovely residents, but also to our deserving hard-working staff who look after our residents.
We all had a lovely afternoon with the Easter Bunny and enjoyed our treats!
Easter Sunday Motorbikes!
On Easter Sunday morning, we were happy to welcome once again the Whittlesea Motorcycle Club to the home. Approximately 17 motorcycles of all makes turned out for this very sunny morning. The residents and families were very interested in looking at the bikes and chatting to their owners. It brought back some emotional memories for some of the residents.
We would like to thank the bike club for giving up their time; we will no doubt see you again, to those that came, and to those who bought raffle tickets and donated money to the table-top. We raised a total of £111.00 so thank you very much.
St. George's Day!
We at Werrington on 23rd April were delighted to accept an invitation for staff and residents to join staff and residents at Longueville Court also joined by staff and residents from Hampton Grove, in order to celebrate St George’s Day.
We quite often meet up; being at Barchester homes so close to each other and residents enjoy being out and about meeting new people that they may meet up with again. It gives them a bit of a network, so when we go visit the different homes, the residents know people, which makes them feel like they belong.
We all had a brilliant time, lots of nice food and light refreshments, the music got us all dancing and singing. We most definitely celebrated St George’s Day in a very lovely way and look forward to many more meet-ups.
Sponsored Walk
On Wednesday 16th April, six Barchester staff members went out on a sponsored walk to raise money for the Barchester Foundation. Donations are going to help older and disabled adults. We walked together with staff from Longueville Court and Hampton Grove. Unfortunately, the weather was not resident-friendly so we left them in the warm.
Starting at 10.00am on a very blustery day, we took the Ham Trail, which took us a fair way around Ferry Meadows. As you can see from the map, it left us certainly feeling liked we’d done the walk.
We raised £40 at Werrington Lodge so we’d like to thank those who sponsored us.
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.
