Activities at Woodland View Care Home

Activities at Woodland View

Woodland View is passionately committed to providing residents with a varied choice of entertainment, social, health and well being, craft and relaxation based activities.

Activities will all be meaningful and based on the likes of residents and will continue to evolve depending on our residents. The activities provided will also include involvement from other local community based organisations and are open to all residents, family and friends of residents. Our activities will be facilitated by staff from all departments as well as invited guests. Families are also enthusiastically encouraged to play a part in activities when possible.

There will always be at least one person at every activity who has been DBS checked to ensure the safeguarding of our residents. The dignity of our residents and our respect for them is at the centre of everything we do, each and every day.

We are always reviewing and changing our schedule of activities to be a centre of excellence and actively invite feedback and suggestions for new and meaningful activities and ideas.

Enriching life
Watch our video on life enrichment in our homes.

Petra Hardman

Activities Coordinator

Hi my name is Petra and I'm the Activities Coordinator here at Woodland View. I love seeing the difference that activities can make to each individual, and finding out what interests they have and ensure I incorporate that into our activities here.

I love music and drama coming from a musical background as a singer all over the country, music is important to me and I feel it makes such a difference to everyone, it evokes memories, and creates happiness. I also love to boost residents self esteem by creating pampering sessions and having one to one time to relax and reminisce.

Life-encriching activities booklet

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 Woodland View Care Home

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Mini-bus Trips

We have really enjoyed getting out and about in our local community lately. We have had trips to the Country Park, Clacton sea front, Pubs, Garden Centres, Coffee shops, Marks and Spencer. At our recent resident meetings, residents mentioned they really enjoyed being surprised by us on their destinations, which we are happy to oblige with! We have been also continuing to ask residents where they would like to go. We have Wivenhoe, Museums, Southend and shopping requested. We are also happy to look at family requests if you would like to take a trip with your loved ones.  

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Sensory Room Sessions

We are lucky to have a beautiful sensory room upstairs, if you get chance to come and visit, you are very welcome. If you would like to book a session for your loved one, or join for a session, please let the activities team know, we would love to help! The sensory room consists of Comfortable chairs, Blackout blinds, LED lights, Essential oil diffuser, Waterfall fibre-optic, and Bubble Tower. The room promotes a sense of well-being, and helps to alleviate distressed reactions. Our sessions are on Monday and Tuesday afternoons, and one weekend a month. 

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Baking Club

With the Autumn weather now upon us, thoughts of warm, traditional puddings are top of the list! During one of our reminiscing sessions, residents spoke about puddings they enjoyed in their childhood, one of which was blackberry and apple crumble. Our Gardener took residents picking, and we sourced cooking apples from local Fiveways Fruit Farm. Residents really enjoyed creating these puddings that were enjoyed the day after for lunch!

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Olympics fun at Woodland View

Residents and staff at Woodland View  have been cheering on Team GB throughout the Paris Olympics.  The home has been decked out with flags and residents have been enjoying all the action over the past two weeks.  Everyone at the home has loved seeing all of our amazing Olympians progress.

Sports fans at Woodland View were delighted to be able to continue the amazing Summer of Sport by watching the Games after the excitement of the Euros and Wimbledon.  Residents and staff have had a brilliant time getting together to watch all of the different sporting fixtures from rowing to cycling, gymnastics to boxing, show jumping to judo.

Residents and staff have also been taking part in their own weekly Olympics with the help of local RISE Sports, a local business that helps provide chair exercise for all abilities.

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Woodland View Summer Fayre

Residents, staff, relatives and visitors came to support our summer fayre.  Local community stalls attended  with jewellery , home fragrance, bath and body products, cakes and chocolates. We also had our tombola, and our really popular bottle tombola, were you can win anything from water to wine! All the proceeds from the tombola will go to the residents fund, which will then go towards sensory items, and some items for the garden, at residents request. We enjoyed a visit from the ice-cream van, and entertainment from Tessa who sung hits from all genres and eras, everyone had a lovely time, and the rain was nowhere in sight, which was a welcome relief!

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Animal Therapy Visit

Residents, staff and visitors enjoyed an animal visit from Together Animal Therapy, with a variety of Geckos, Snakes, Guinea Pigs, Rabbits, Tortoises. This was such a lovely session, and a lot of our staff and residents were really excited to hold Marshmallow, a beautiful and friendly snake, who just loved to curl up and snuggle. The geckos were both really popular, with lots of strokes and everyone commenting on how soft they were! Treacle the rabbit, was soft and really loved being cuddled, and stroked on the forehead, which everyone took turns doing! We have already been asked to book another session in, which we can’t wait for, residents, staff and visitors!