Activities at West Oak Care Home
Our activities team are great at building the activities programme around the likes and interests of the people we care for. Ensuring that our social events offer fun and adventure is part of the ethos of our home; it’s important that those we support can enjoy an active and social lifestyle. Of course, there will always be those who prefer peace and quiet, and in these instances, a cup of tea and a chat are always welcomed.
Dawn Davies & Helen Fagan
Dawn and Helen are at the centre of all the activities here at West Oak. They provide an interesting and varied activities schedule and ensure that there is something for everyone. They are passionate about the importance of activities and will go that extra mile just for a smile or a raised eyebrow, whether it's one-to-one time or a group session, inside or out, fun is had by all.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 West Oak Care Home
Australia Day
Residents and staff thoroughly enjoyed celebrating Australia Day this year. We had a day packed full of different activities to really take full advantage of learning different things about this beautiful country.
We ended our afternoon by making some traditional Australian sweet treats, Anzac. Anzac biscuits are a crunchy biscuits made with oats, golden syrup and much more. These were made perfectly by a few of our residents and then later added to the Tea Trolley for the rest of our residents to enjoy with an afternoon cuppa
International Flower Day
West Oak celebrated International Flower Day this year by getting some of our residents together and having a fun afternoon of flower arranging.
The residents had a fantastic time arranging the flowers and choosing all of the beautiful different flowers and colours. Flower arranging is always such a big hit here at West Oak as it allows each individual to explore their creative side.
The flowers have taken pride of place in our lounge, making everything look and feel brighter.
Christmas cake
Residents at West Oak had a fun time choosing their annual design for this year’s Barchester Christmas Cake Competition. Residents thoroughly enjoyed making and decorating our Christmas Cake competition entry, they did such an amazing job and we are really thrilled with the outcome.
Henry Street
Residents enjoyed a little trip to Henry Street to see all of the Christmas decorations & lights. As you can see he was absolutely mesmerised by all of the lights and different decorations set up at the Garden Centre. It is such a fantastic time of year and we are really looking forward to enjoying Christmas this year at West Oak, but to be able to get the Residents out to enjoy it all really is special.
Remembrance Sunday
Sunday 14th November marked a very special day for us all: Remembrance Sunday 2021. In order to celebrate we had some very special visitors here at West Oak, three Rifleman from the Seventh Battalion centre in Reading come in to see our residents.
As you can imagine the residents were over the moon to have such special visitors and it brought back a lot of memories for some who had served in the Army or who have family serving in the army now.
As a home we would like to thank all of the Soldiers who have served or who are serving in the army and keeping us safe.
Halloween Spirit
Residents and staff have had a brilliant day getting into the Halloween spirit. We started off by decorating the home with all things spooky. We then created some amazing designs on our pumpkins and apple candles. We then finished off the spooky celebrations with an all-time classic Halloween film, The Addams Family.
