Activities at Wheatlands 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.
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 Wheatlands Care Home
British Flower Week
To celebrate British flower week we hosted numerous events throughout the week our residents enjoyed flower arranging, still life drawings of plants and also going for lots of walks in the fresh air looking at all the beautiful flowers and plants we have growing here at Wheatlands and also the surrounding area. To finish the week off in style we invited friends and family to join us in the sensory garden for a morning of all things flowers! Residents and families enjoyed planting a variety of plant and vegetable seeds together where we can look forward to watching them grow and then eating the vegetables we have sown. After which we enjoyed doing a flower based quiz whilst enjoying some tasty fruit kebabs that the residents had prepared prior to the event.
World Music Day
To celebrate World Music Day on Wednesday 21st June residents enjoyed a Zoom call from Much Wenlock Nursery School the children sang and performed for the residents in our memory lane community. They all thoroughly enjoyed it and loved seeing the little children’s faces on the television and them being able to talk to them it was even more special for one resident Ruth as she used to be a primary school teacher and it brought lots of memories flooding back about yesteryears of her being a teacher and also when she was at Primary school.
A visit from Cosford Museum
After a few months of planning am pleased to say our first official day of our Co-creation project with Royal Airforce Museum Midlands has begun. Over the coming months our residents will be helping Paula the community engagement manager from Royal Airforce Museum Midlands and her team of amazing volunteers Victoria , Mike and Paul to co-create and develop immersive boxes that then will be lent out via the Museum for children's groups, schools to residential and care homes. We enjoyed looking at selection of handling objects that could possibly be used for the immersive loan boxes. Residents enjoyed talking about their own experiences and sharing their memories with the team from Royal Air Force Cosford. We can't wait for our next meeting and are. Looking forward to watching the project develop.
Letters by Email
Keeping in touch with family is really important to our residents. Wendy speaks to her daughter numerous times a week be it in person, over the telephone or Via facetime.
As Sharon Wendy’s daughter is visiting family in Bali for 3 weeks its hard for Wendy to be able to talk to Sharon due to the time difference in quality of the internet. Sharon emailed the home and asked that we sit and read though a letter she wrote her mum and sent via email.
Wendy enjoyed reading the letter ‘ I can’t believe Matthew and Benjamin are old enough to be graduating’
‘It sounds like Benjamin being laid back he’s always been like that’ she said.
After enjoying reading the letter we drafted a reply and I sent back via email.
