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.
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 Wheatlands Care Home
National Museum Day
A recent trip of ours from the home took us to a wonderful museum for National Museum Day. We travelled over to Craven Arms and went to visit ‘Land of Lost content’ a museum filled with amazing displays throughout the ages from WW1 and ww2 all the way through to the 50s and 60s. The museum is filled from floor to ceiling with wonderful things throughout history and many things caught our residents eyes, such as shirts made of old parachute material from the war, a bottle of tizer evoking memories of buying bottles from the milk man’s van and many more. In the photo is our amazing activities coordinator Donna, who spotted this tiny tricycle and told us of her own memories on riding one just like it when she was little!
Severn Valley Railway
We had a fantastic day trip out to Severn Valley Railway in Bridgnorth. We had a well-deserved cup of tea after a good walk up and down the platform, practised waving to the passengers on the train as if we were in The Railway children and even caught a glimpse of the beautiful purple steam train, made especially for the upcoming Queen’s platinum Jubilee celebrations.
St George's Day
St George’s Day saw us celebrating in a number of ways here at the Wheatlands care home. From Chef martin’s wonderful red and white themed cakes, to big group singalongs, we have had so much fun. But, one of our favourite activities was our St George’s Day dragon arts and crafts, all the residents enjoyed this wonderfully creative activity and look how cute the resulting dragons are!
Van Gogh
This month we celebrated the birthday of Van Gogh by recreating some of his famous paintings. We painted the night sky and made his sunflowers out of paper. Here we have our wonderful resident Brenda posing with our sunflower creations, she thoroughly enjoyed making and creating the sunflowers in our group activities and it definitely taught us there is an artist in everyone!
Mothers Day
For our Mother’s Day celebrations this year, we got creative making our very own Mother’s Day banners for both of our units. Judith here was so pleased with the results and was happy to hold it up high, proud of all of our hard work we achieved together. We love creative arts and crafts sessions like this here at the Wheatlands, as it encourages use of creativity and imagination, dexterity and cognitive functions and is also great fun!
Men's Club
This is a photo from our men's club we make sure the activities are person-centered and engaging for all of our lovely gentlemen residents. Here Reg is having a game of dice and numbers, an engaging and competitive game that all our residents enjoy, but which the men’s club have taken a shine to during their meetings.
