Activities at Woodside House Care Home
Activities at Woodside House
Our activities team deliver a wide variety of mentally and physically stimulating activities and events for those we support, including coffee afternoons, which we hold every month for the local community, regular outings in our minibus, and visits from entertainers and musicians. Monthly resident meetings help us to ensure that those living here are getting the most out of our activities programme, and that our social events reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible. From growing our own vegetables to making giant paper-mâché animals, there is always something fun going on at Woodside House.
Sam Lake
My name is Sam and I lead our Activities Team at Woodside House.
I have been at Woodside House since 2004 and I love it here. I am responsible for ensuring that the residents are able to participate in sociable, fun and rewarding activities. My team and I are very passionate about our work and love putting smiles on the residents' faces.
We involve the residents in the planning of our activity calendars and encourage residents to continue with the hobbies that they have enjoyed throughout their lives. We will support every resident to try new things and we love learning from our residents every day.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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 Woodside House Care Home
Christmas Light Switch On with a special visitor
Woodside House decided to elect their own ‘famous’ person for our light switch on this year. Mayor Miriam has visited Barchester’s Woodside House in Norwich to carry out the ‘great Christmas light switch on’.
Miriam (also known as Ann, whose husband lives at Woodside House) joined residents of the home for the event on 1st December 2023. Celebrations included joining residents and staff touring the home lighting up each area in turn. The residents joined in the countdown and cheered as each area of the home was beautifully illuminated. Mayor Miriam then went around the home visiting residents who were unable to come out of their rooms to wish them a merry Christmas.
Mayor Miriam gave a short speech thanking all staff and residents for joining in and having such fun before wishing everyone a merry Christmas.
Caribbean Day
At Woodside, we finished off the summer with a Caribbean party. we had cocktail-tasting Pina colada, Caribbean punch, a big fruit platter lots of laughing, smiles, and dancing Caribbean styles band we all had so music fun all staff dress up in Caribbean clothing.
Dog Show
Our annual Dog Show was a huge success with an enormous variety of dogs on show.
Residents, staff, carers, families and the wider community turned out with their canine friends to show off and compete for the exclusive winners ribbons!
All Shook Up!
We were honoured to welcome The King of rock 'n' roll, Elvis himself to delight our residents with his greatest hits.
The women screamed, the men shook his hand, the staff fainted it was pandemonium, but we loved every minute of it!
Rainbow Table
We have just taken delivery of our brand new Rainbow table, and as you can see it only just got through the door before we had to have a go!
This fantastic piece of technology will help enrich the lives of all of our residents providing lots of entertainment, stimulation and learning.
Barchester Care Awards 2023 - Divisional Winner!
We're so happy to announce that Ashley Grief has been crowned Learner of the Year for the Central Division in the Barchester Care Awards 2023 and is through to the national round of judging.
The Barchester Care Awards celebrate the staff who go the extra mile for the benefit of the 13,000 residents living in Barchester’s 252 care homes and private hospitals across the country. Categories range from ‘Registered Nurse of the Year’ and ‘Carer of the Year’ to ‘Dementia Care Champion’ and ‘Activities Coordinator of the Year’.
